{"id":307,"date":"2014-01-19T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/01\/leonard-cohen-narrates-tibetan-book-of-the-dead.html"},"modified":"2014-07-27T10:20:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T15:20:47","slug":"leonard-cohen-narrates-tibetan-book-of-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/01\/leonard-cohen-narrates-tibetan-book-of-the-dead.html","title":{"rendered":"Leonard Cohen Narrates Tibetan Book of the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TfdFoINVdoQ?list=PLLU6eg-G7tyH8Kk7wX5E9-wDteHtVeOu0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"460\" height=\"257\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Here, Canadian poet and musician,<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leonard_Cohen\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Leonard Cohen<\/a>, reads part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summum.us\/mummification\/tbotd\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tibetan Book of the Dea<\/a>d in 1994. The Tibetan Book of the Dead, \u00a0according to the <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/buddhism' target='_blank'>Buddhist<\/a> scholar, Robert Thurman,\u201corganizes the experiences of the between\u2014(Tibetan, bar-do) usually referring to the state between death and rebirth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/03\/leonard_cohen_narrates_film_on_ithe_tibetan_book_of_the_deadi_featuring_the_dalai_lama_1994.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Open Culture<\/a> has a great review of \u00a0Cohen\u2019s 1994 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0000YTOZS\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B0000YTOZS&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=openculture-20\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">two part documentary<\/a> that explores Tibetan teachings about death and dying.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a link to the second part of the two part documentary called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iEX5mBqa554\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation<\/a>.\u201d \u00a0And here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ermcc6iDqQA\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">History Channel documentary<\/a> about the Book of the Dead<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here, Canadian poet and musician, Leonard Cohen, reads part of the Tibetan Book of the Dead in 1994. 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