Awakening Upon Dying
Introduction by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu
Translated from the Tibetan and Annotated by Elio Guarisco
Known as the Great Liberation through Hearing in Tibetan, this book is a manual of instructions to guide the dying person on the difficult path at the moment of death and the deceased person in the bewildering post-mortem state, as he or she wanders in confused search for a new life. The reader first needs to awaken to the awareness that death is an ineluctable part of life. If we truly know that, our life becomes more meaningful, so that we can face death when it knocks on our door and are prepared to use that crucial time for self-realization.
-Chogyal Namkhai Norbu
The title of this book, Awakening Upon Dying, corresponds literally to the purpose at the source of this teaching and points the way to a profound method for reaching that goal. It is also a metaphor for renewal on an earthly plane through profound communion with the deepest levels of self. Hopefully all those who have the good fortune to chance upon this ancient text and who feel an interest in its ultimate goal will choose to reap the full benefits of this rare encounter and seek out a qualified holder of the living transmission.
Chogyal Namkhai Norbu's intention, specified in his "Note to the Translation" in the 1983 Italian edition, has been followed in the present volume: "Rather than rendering the text from a strictly academic perspective, I have chosen an approach better suited to a Western lay public that remains, however, true to the original."
-the Translator
Shang Shung Publications, 2012.
330 Pages
This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 17 October, 2012.
