This is Thrangu Rinpoche's latest book which includes three of Thrangu Rinpoche's teachings on the Bardo.  The Bardo is the interval between when we die and when we are reborn. For ordinary persons the experience in the bardo is a very frightening with uncontrolled streams of visions,...

Books on the Bardo usually begin by explaining that the Bardo Thodol (Tibetan Book of the Dead) was written by Padmasambhava in the 8th century CE.  Cuevas in this fascination book actually traces the teachings and Death and Dying from many centuries before Padmasamhava to the present...

This book is about the Life and Legacey of Dudjom Rinpoche who was head of the Nyingma lineage in Tibet and taught thousands of lamas and westerners.  At his death he practiced Tukden and after his death his body shrunk to about a foot in length.

This book is the original book on the Bardo that came out in English. It was translated by Kazi Dawa-Samdup with Evans-Wents being the editor. This edition (Oxford 2000) has a forward by Donald Lopez that updates the book

Natural Liberation:Padmasambhava's Teachings on the Six Bardo translated by Alan Wallace and Commentary by Gyatrul Rinpoche THIS BOOK CONTAINS A TRANSLATION and commentary on the great Indian Buddhist tantric master Padmasambhava’s text, enti- tled The Profound Dharma of the Natural...

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was a psychiatrist with a particular interest in end-of-life care. Especially interested in the care of dying patients, she researched their attitudes to death. Her groundbreak- ing work, On Death and Dying, identified the “five stages” that dying people go...

It is research such as Dr. Moody presents in his book that will enlighten many and will confirm what we have been taught for two thousand years- that there is life after death. Though he does not claim to have studied death itself, it is evident from his findings that the dying patient continues to...

Luminous Essence: A Guide to the Guhyagarbha Tantra by Mipham The Guhyagarbha Tantra is the first tantra to introduce the concept of the 42 peaceful and 58 wrathful deities that are experienced in the Bardo. One of the most accomplished scholars and prolific writers of recent times in Tibet was...

Dream Yoga and Practice of Natural Light by Namkai Norbu Rinpoche This book is a fairly comprehensive book on dream yoga with a good review of  dream yoga by Michael Katz and then Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche's extensive teaching on dream yoga as a  Buddhist practice.

The Mirror of Mindfulness by Natsok Rangdrol This is the main book that Thrangu Rinpoche used as an outline for his major teaching on the Bardo. T H E MOST LEARNED TSELE PEMA LEGDRUB was the body-emanation of the great translator Vairochana, and he attained the pinnacle of learning and...

THE LARGER SUKHAVATIVYUHA SUTRA or The Sutra on the Buddha of Eternal Life Thrangu Rinpoche in his Journey of the Mind describes how one of the important ways to go to a pure land right after death and basically skip the bardo is to do the Amitabha practice. This is the English text of this...

Death and Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism Inbetween Bodies by Tanya Zivkowic The book looks closely at previously unexamined figures whose history is relevant to a better understanding of how Tibetan culture navigates its own under- standing of reincarnation, the veneration of relics and...

Khentin Tai Situpa was one of the four regents of the Kagyu Lineage and perticipated in Thrangu Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsultrim’s first shedra at Rumtek. He speaks fluent English and has been teaching for 40 years, but unfortuantely very few of books in English are available in English .  ...