A review by alanffm
The Tibetan Book of the Dead by Padmasambhava

4.0

A fascinating text that in many ways reminds me of Dante's Divine Comedy in its detail of the afterlife and the trials souls must go through (in this case, to break the cycle of reincarnation). There is a lot going on in this volume that I simply cannot grasp. The importance of gender, the metempsychosis of the soul, transience, and non-attachment, are paramount ideas that the reader is meant to already be familiar with. My lack of knowledge made the text a bit boring at times, but the moments of intense violence and beauty that pepper this book easily made up for it.