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title: "Preparing to Die: Practical Advice and Spiritual Wisdom from the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition"
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# Preparing to Die: Practical Advice and Spiritual Wisdom from the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition

**Brand:** andrew holecek
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- **What is this?** Preparing to Die: Practical Advice and Spiritual Wisdom from the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition by andrew holecek
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Preparing to Die: Practical Advice and Spiritual Wisdom from the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition

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## Customer Reviews

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    Great book
  

*by T***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 29, 2023*

Reasonable and helpful insight to preparing yourself or someone else to make an easier transition.

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    Excellent - but with important caveats
  

*by K***X on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 31, 2014*

I want to offer another rave review, while adding a few cautionary notes that other reviewers, perhaps because many are immersed in the Tibetan Budddhist tradition, haven't offered.Mr. Holecek's book is a true magnum opus, containing the most powerful teachings on how to make the most of THIS life I've ever read and the clearest and most detailed account of the dying process, intermediate state and rebirth from the Tibetan tradition available, with a richness of pithy practice advice. The author's warmth, enthusiasm and willingness to share his own challenges in truly living these teachings make the book even more inspiring. There is so much here, and just the small sections on creating a Dharma will and dealing with hospice and health workers are alone more than worth the price of the book, in my opinion.While I've practiced in the Tibetan tradition myself for over 35 years I also have a good grounding in the Theravadin and Zen traditions, and have long been keenly interested in Buddhist history.  Mr. Holecek is such a dyed-in-the-wool "true believer" in the Tibetan tradition that he doesn't stop to think how off-putting some of what he says could be to readers with other backgrounds, and he also takes the party line beliefs from within his tradition at face value even when modern scholarship clearly shows they are incorrect.The bardo teachings are unique to the Tibetan tradition, and as Donald Lopez has shown in his excellent "Tibetan Book of the Dead," they are as much Bön (pre-Buddhist shamanism) as Buddhist. These are teachings on reincarnation, in the HIndu sense, not Buddhist rebirth, and they are far removed from what we know (which is a great deal, these days) of what the historical Buddha of the Pali canon taught. This isn't to say they aren't valid, but merely to point out that while the Tibetan teachings on death and dying get all the attention these days, there are older and far simpler teachings on dying in the Buddhist tradition that don't require such a long list of assumptions and presumptions.The historical Buddha never taught about bardos, peaceful and wrathful deities, bodhichitta, guru devotion, transference of consciousness (pure shamanism) or any sort of timeless essence of mind ("primordial awareness" and other quasi-atman theistic notions). This isn't to say that the Tibetan tradition teachings may not  be even more profound, but the danger is that a prospective reader could think that these teachings are representative of Buddhism as a whole, and that belief in them is necessary to benefit from the book. That would be unfortunate, for the teachings on renunciation and putting first things first, combined with a dedication to practice and a willingness to otherwise rest in the "don't know mind" of the agnostic, may prove more appropriate for many readers.

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    Excellent Guide for Anyone Going Through Death Regardless of Faith
  

*by D***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 8, 2016*

For the past two years my father, a traditional Christian when through a slow period of deterioration. Wanting to help my family I began to read through a variety of books on death. This one was by FAR THE BEST BOOK I read. Though I am open to Buddhism, none of my family is, so I did not let them know I was drawing from this book. Instead, I simply told them things I was learning while reading a number of books and everyone was helped so much by what I shared. Taking away the Buddhist language used at times, I simply explained the stages, which we all saw my dad pass through in his final four months. I would read the book and tell my family, "Look for this to happen next." It did, over and over.  It was so comforting to everyone. Best of all I was able to advocate in the hospice my dad was in and implement many of the practical suggestions in this book to help him have a peaceful death, which he did have. For example,I didn't say anything like "At the time of death we need to be sure my dad is in a good space so he has a good rebirth, which is something no one in my family believed in."  For example, a few of the things I said were, "We need to keep him in a quiet space with beautiful music playing. We need to act as if he can hear us even though at times he seems unconscious and respect him no matter what. We need to help him review his life in a positive manner." There were so many other things I implemented that all my family appreciated and I never mentioned Buddhism once.  I stayed within their own belief system. In the end, everyone felt very helped by the things we shared over the many months, including the practical things we needed to watch out for in regards to his care, funeral, and so forth. Having had such a positive experience because of this book, I just can't recommend it enough.

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