For nearly a thousand years, the Bardo Thödol — known to the West as The Tibetan Book of the Dead — has been read aloud beside the dying and the dead as a guide through the luminous and terrifying landscape between this life and the next. This new edition renders its ancient verses in clear, present-day English while remaining faithful to the profound meaning and compassionate spirit of the original. The journey unfolds step by step: the signs of approaching death, the first dawning of the clear light, the dazzling and fearful visions of the peaceful and wrathful deities, the judgment before the Lord of Death, and the choice of a new birth. At its heart is a timeless teaching — that what appears as judgment is really the mirror of our own mind, and that awareness itself is the path to freedom. Part of The World Scriptures Library.