In the canon
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Anonymous
- Form
- Form Religious Text
- Year
- Year 1350
- Originally in
- Originally in Tibetan
- Pages
- Pages 300
Somebody is reading aloud to a body. The lama leans close to the ear of the newly dead and speaks, calmly, as to a traveller who has set out on a road and needs directions: now the clear light is dawning, do not be afraid of it, it is your own.
wherein all things are like the void and cloudless sky, and the naked, spotless intellect is like unto a transparent vacuum without circumference or centre.
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