Advice on Dying
Subtitle: And Living a Better Life
Publisher: Atria
Published: November 19, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780743463027
Subjects: Death & Dying; Family & Health; Religions of Indic & Oriental origin; Psychopathology - General; Death, Grief, Bereavement; Asian And Oriental Religions; Religious aspects; Health & Fitness; Religion - World Religions; Health - General; Family/Marriage; Health/Fitness; Doctrines; Buddhism - Tibetan; Self-Help / Death, Grief, Bereavement; Buddhism; Religious life; Healthy Living; Death
First sentence: It is crucial to be mindful of death-to contemplate that you will not remain long in this life.
Description: ""Everyone dies, but no one is dead," goes the Tibetan saying. It is with these words that Advice on Dying takes flight. Using a seventeenth-century poem written by a prominent scholar-practitioner, His Holiness the Dalai Lama draws from a wide range of traditions and beliefs to explore the stages we all go through when we die, which are the very same stages we experience in life when we go to sleep, faint, or reach orgasm (Shakespeare's "little death")."--BOOK JACKET.