Author: Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Publisher: New Age Books
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 238
ISBN/UPC (if available): 817822058X
Description
This inspiring book gives an unparalleled Buddhist insight into death and dying, helping us to develop an awareness of our own mortality in a way that will totally enrich and transform our human life.
This inspiring book gives an unparalleled Buddhist insight into death and dying, helping us to develop an awareness of our own mortality in a way that will totally enrich and transform our human life. Also included are accessible and practical instructions on how to increase all our positive states of mind, such as love, compassion, and wisdom. It shows us how to make the most of our human life, and explains what happens when we die and how we can face our own death without fear.
In Particular, Geshe Kelsang explains a very powerful yet simple practice called 'transference of consciousness',. Mastery o9f this will enable us to meet our death with grace, clarity and fearless ness, attain rebirth in a Pure Land, and experience happiness in all our future lives.
Contents
Illustration
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART ONE: PRACTICING POWA TO BENEFIT OURSELF AND OTHERS
The Preliminary Practices
Training in Powa Meditation
Practicing Powa at the Time of Death
Death, Intermediate State, and Rebirth
How to Benefit the Dying and Those Who Have Died
PART TWO: INTEGRATING THE FIVE FORCES INTO THE PRACTICE OF POWA
Motivation and Familiarity
Training in Virtue
Purification and Prayer
Appendix I - The Condensed Meaning of the Text
Appendix II - Sadhanas
Pathway to the Pure land
Path of Compassion for the Deceased
Path of compassion for the Dying
Heartfelt Prayers
Mahayana confession Sutra
Glossary
Bibliography
Index