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Donald Lopez, Ph.D. – Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the University of Michigan |
Tuesday April 26, 2011, 4:30-6:00 p.m.
Sponored by the Asian Studies program at the Case Western Reserve University
The Tibetan Book of the Dead, edited by W. Y. Evans Wentz, was published in 1927 and became an instant classic, passing through numerous editions, and subsequent versions by other authors. This lecture will tell the story of how a relatively obscure Tibetan work became the most famous Buddhist text in the western world.