Fearless Death: Buddhist Wisdom on the Art of Dying - Hardcover

Lama Ole Nydahl

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9780975295410: Fearless Death: Buddhist Wisdom on the Art of Dying

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ISBN 10: 0975295411 ISBN 13: 9780975295410

Publisher: Diamond Way Press, 2013

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For centuries Tibetan Buddhist masters have uncovered joy and meaning in the dying process. For them death is not a mystery. They know what will happen and see it as a great chance for spiritual development. Fearless Death makes their teachings accessible to the modern West. In this book, Lama Ole Nydahl condenses the information he learned from years spent with great Buddhist masters in the East. His explanations are enriched by decades of experience guiding modern people through the dying process.

In 1968, Lama Ole and his wife Hannah began training with meditation masters of the Kagyu and Nyingma schools of Tibetan Buddhism in the Himalayas. In 1972, Lama Ole learned the rare meditation practice of conscious dying (Phowa) according to the wishes of his teacher, the great 16th Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje. Since then he has taught the Phowa practice to over 90,000 people throughout the western world, inspiring them to live for others and face death without fear.

People are less afraid of things they can understand. With Phowa training and the knowledge found in this book, readers can transform fear and doubt into confidence and a calm state of mind when facing death.

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About the Author:

Lama Ole Nydahl is one of the few Westerners fully qualified as a Lama and meditation teacher in the Karma Kagyu Buddhist tradition. In 1969, Ole Nydahl and his late wife Hannah became the first Western students of H.H. the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa. After completing several years of Buddhist philosophy studies and intensive meditation training, Nydahl began teaching Buddhism in Europe at the request of the 16th Karmapa. He has since transmitted the Karma Kagyu Buddhist teachings in a different city nearly every day, traveling and teaching worldwide. His depth of knowledge and dynamic teachings inspire thousands of people at his lectures and meditation retreats. Nydahl has been a major driving force in bringing Buddhism to the West, and to date has established more than 600 Diamond Way Buddhist centers in 44 countries around the world. His unique synthesis of modern style and ancient wisdom helped create the largest body of students practicing Diamond Way Buddhist methods in the West. Nydahl's books have been translated into 20 languages and are enjoyed by readers in over 40 countries, including his most recent title published in 2012, Buddha & Love: Timeless Wisdom for Modern Relationships.

Review:

This excellent book about death and dying...will be extremely helpful for people to prepare for their own death, and to lose their fear of dying, knowing now that death is just the end of our physical aspects but not of our consciousness...This book could be of great help in daily medical practice in the Western world, where death is still a huge taboo as a result of widespread ignorance. Highly recommended. --Pim van Lommel, M.D., Author of Consciousness beyond Life

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