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Tibetan Book of the Dead 2-DVD SET Email This Page
Filmmaker: Yukari Hayashi, Barrie Angus McLean and Hiroaki Mori
DVD - $ 150.00
Price listed includes Public Performance License.
A text unique to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, the "Book of the Dead" is an essential teaching that is read aloud to dying persons as they pass from this life into the next. A continual best seller, the book documents a philosophy of living life to the fullest while acknowledging death. This remarkable two-part series explores this ancient wisdom of life and death and boldly visualizes the afterlife according to Tibetan philosophy.

Narrated by Leonard Cohen

Also Available:
The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Part 1
The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Part 2

Running time: 90 minutes, Year released: 1994
Close captioned?: N, Color?: Y
Avail. formats: dvd
ISBN: 1-55974-547-9 & 1-55974-545-2
Language: English, Subtitled?: N
For classroom?: Y, Study Guide?: N
Grade level: 9th and up

Other Credits:

Directed by Hiroaki Mori, Yukari Hayashi & Barrie Angus McLean
Produced by Atsunori Kawamura & David Verrall
Written by Shinichi Nakazawa & Douglas Penick
A Co-Production of NHK of Japan, Mistral Film of France and the National Film Board of Canada
This title can also be found in: Buddhism, Death & Bereavement, Eastern Culture & History, Eastern Religion, History, Religion, Spirituality
 

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