The Book Report #92
Episode #91 The Tibetan Book of the Dead By Padmasambhava, Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup (Translator), John Baldock (Editor) The Book The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thödol) originates from 8th-century Tantric Buddhism, dictated by Guru Padmasambhava (founder of the Nyingma school) to his disciple Yeshe Tsogyal, then hidden as a terma (treasure text) for future discovery. Lama Kazi Dawa-Samhup was the first translator of the text…