- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Windhorse Publications (Aug 1 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1899579680
- ISBN-13: 978-1899579686
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 14.8 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #333,868 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Drawing from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of approaching and preparing for death, Lama Shenpen Hookham offers Westerners like herself practical descriptions of the attitudes, the practices, and the considerations that surround our own death, caring for those dying and also care-givers. Of great interest to those seeking a positive yet realistic coming to terms with death, its Buddhist context provides further teaching on the Tibetan Books of the Dead, one of the most well-known Tibetan texts.
Lama Shenpen Hookham has practiced in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition for over 30 years. With Khenpo Rinpoche her root teacher, she focuses on the Mahamudra and Dzogchen teachings. She is the author of The Buddha Within and Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness.
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Lama Shenpen Hookham has practised in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition for over 30 years, both in India and here in her native Britain. With Khenpo Rinpoche her root teacher, she focuses on the Mahamudra and Dzogchen teachings. She is the author of The Buddha Within and Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness.
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A well-grounded buddhst book on the dying process with practical implications., April 7 2009
By Julio Feijoo - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: There's More to Dying than Death: A Buddhist Perspective (Paperback)
Lama Shenpen Hookham is a British Westerner with a solid grounding in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. She has a gift for teaching in an intuitive style which encourages her students' independence and creativity. In other contexts, her analysis and teaching of the role of words, their meaning, and their inner resonance, brings out the inner dimension of language and its role in Buddhist teaching and practice.This relatively brief book combines the best of two traditions of writing on death and dying: firstly, she addresses practical concerns about dying, and secondly, she addresses the Buddhist practices and beliefs around the process, including a knowledge of the so-called "Tibetan Book of the Dead" (Bardo Thodol Chenmo).
This makes for a powerful combination, giving useful and heartfelt advice. One feels as if one were sipping a cup of tea with the Lama, cozily sitting by a fire during a cold night in Wales. As a friend and a Lama, she delivers simple yet profound and practical advice, combined with heart-felt humanity and warmth. This is a book not only on death and dying, but on how to conduct one's life. It is said that if my next step is the right one, I will be at the right place in a thousand miles. This is the core message of this book. I highly recommend it for the reader now, when death does not seem so near.
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