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The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation

Posted on January 28, 2011March 26, 2022 by Dharma Documentaries
The second of these films follows Lama Pema Chodan and his 13 year old novice Thubten Tsering as they attend to the ceremonies following the death of a young family man in Ladakh.

Lama Pema Chodan

The second of these films follows Lama Pema Chodan and his 13 year old novice Thubten Tsering as they attend to the ceremonies following the death of a young family man in Ladakh, and listens in on their conversations about life and death, as the master explains to his pupil the various stages (bardo) that the dead person passes through.

The Book of the Dead is chanted giving guidance to the spirit which has not quite left the body for the first few days, and following the cremation on the eighth day there are more readings guiding the spirit through the projections of gods and demons that are conjured up in his mind as he seeks for rebirth.

The documentary this week has many animation sequences to help illustrate the journey the spirit makes, some are quite effective like the animating of traditional thangkas, but others are a little crude. The whole is set against the magnificent Himalayan background and the difficult life the inhabitants there face.

 

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Dharma, Gods, Ladakh, Vajrayana

1 thought on “The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation”

  1. Kumar says:
    December 15, 2020 at 3:47 am

    I have document in English. Do we need to read only in Tibetan language for the soul to understand? Does this have to be in a language that the soul knows? or can we read in any language?

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