In which religion is the Tibetan Book of the Dead a revered text?
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, written by Sogyal Rinpoche in 1992, is a presentation of the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism based on the "Tibetan Book of the Dead" or "Bardo Thodol". The author wrote, "I have written "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying" as the quintessence of the heart-advice of all my masters, to be a new "Tibetan Book of the Dead" and a "Tibetan Book of Life"." The book explores: the message of impermanence; evolution, karma and rebirth; the nature of mind and how to train the mind through
Book of the Dead above, below, or between the columns of text. The largest illustrations took up a full page of papyrus. From the 21st Dynasty onward, more copies of the "Book of the Dead" are found in hieratic script. The calligraphy is similar to that of other hieratic manuscripts of the New Kingdom; the text is written in horizontal lines across wide columns (often the column size corresponds to the size of the papyrus sheets of which a scroll is made up). Occasionally a hieratic "Book of the Dead" contains captions in hieroglyphic. The text of a "Book of the Dead" was written