The Bardo Thodol: The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Translated by Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup and Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz
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The opening
[THE OBEISANCES]
To the Divine Body of Truth,! the Incomprehensible, Bound- less Light; To the Divine Body of Perfect Endowment,? Who are the Lotus and the Peaceful and the Wrathful Deities; To the Lotus-born Incarnation, Padma Sambhava, Who is the Protector of all sentient beings; To the Gurus, the Three Bodies,’ obeisance.
This Great Doctrine of Liberation by Hearing, which conferreth spiritual freedom on devotees of ordinary wit while in the Intermediate State, hath three divisions: the preliminaries, the subject-matter, and the conclusion.
At first, the preliminaries, Te Guide Series,’ for emancipating beings, should be mastered by practice.
By The Guide, the highest intellects ought most certainly to be liberated; but should they not be liberated, then while in the Intermediate State of the Moments of Death they should practise the Transference, which giveth automatic liberation by one’s merely remembering it.
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About this edition
- The words
- Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup and Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz's English translation, copied word for word.
- Left out
- Library stamp and scan noise on the front cover/flyleaf (5 blocks)
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 3 places
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 55 places
- A preface, foreword or afterword, in 6 places
- The printed table of contents (the app makes its own)
- Pictures and their captions, in 4 places
- The index
- Printer's colophon and scanning library's barcode/call-number stamp (4 blocks)
- Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages
- Printer's signature at the foot of the page (14 blocks)
- Stray OCR noise at the foot of the page (3 blocks)
- Printer's signature ('3069 Dd') at the foot of page 201