The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation through Hearing in the Bardo by Guru Rinpoche according to Karma Lingpa.
Boston, MA: Shambhala, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xxii + 120pp. Line drawings & 3 colour plates. Blue cloth with blind stamped publisher's device on upper board, gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt, ribbon marker, colour frontis & plates, b/w illustrations, bibliography and index. The first edition of this modern translation of the "Tibetan Book of the Dead." It includes a Commentary by the rather controversial Tibetan teacher, Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche. Small erasure on frontfree endpaper. Page edges a bit darkened and dusty - else a tight, clean near Fine copy in Good dust jacket. (Dust jacket is rubbed and wrinkled, edges chafed with some light chipping and creasing, inner flaps browned, not clipped, now protected by mylar sleeve). Item #63206
ISBN: 0087773733
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