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Contents
Introduction / ix
I The Traditions of the Tibetan Books of the Dead / 1
11 Basic Elements of Wisdom about Life and Knowledge about
the After-Death State and Rebirth / 13
1. Life, Karma, Death, and Rebirth / 15
2. The Trikaya Doctrine as the Basis of the
Initiations / 23
3. The Six Kinds of Bardo and Other " Intermediate
States" / 33
A. The First Group of Three Bardos as
Intermediate States for the Transformation of
Awareness in This Life / 36
B. The Second Group of Three Bardos as
Intermediate States for the Guidance of
Awareness in the World Beyond / 38
C. Bardo as the Indivisible Union of the
Essential / 43
4. On the Symbolism of Tantric Polarity, the Trinity,
the Quaternity and the Fivefold, and of Colors and
Elements / 47
A. From Unity to Multiplicity / 49
B. Duality as an Expression of Polarity / 50
C. Threefold Articulations / 53
D. Some Groups of Four / 58
E. The Fivefold Arrangement of the Mandala / 62
F. The Six Realms of Incarnation / 68
G. Other Symbolic Groupings / 71
5. The Death Ritual as Guidance through the Bardo / 74
6. Signs in the Transition between the Two Worlds and
the Primordial Light at the Onset of Death / 87
III The Great Ritual of the Initiations into the Mandalas of the
Peaceful and Wrathful Deities / 97
1. The Peaceful Deities / 99
A. The Adibuddha as the Mystical Creator of the
Mandala / 101
B. The Five Tathagatas (Yab-Yum) / 104
C. The Buddha Vairocana / 105
D. The Buddha Aksobhya / 106
E. The Buddha Ratnasambhava / 107
F. The Buddha Amitabha / 108
G. The Buddha Amoghasiddhi / 108
H. The Eight Mahabodhisattvas
(Yab-Yum) / 114
I. The Six Buddhas / 118
a. The Six Buddhas of the Bhavacakra and the
Ritual of Guidance through the Six Realms
of Existence / 118
b. The Six Buddhas and the Great Image of
the Realm of Hells / 130
J. The Four Guardians of the Mandala
(Yab-Yum) / 137
K. The Five Secret Vidyadharas (Yab-Yum) / 139
2. The Wrathful Deities / 141
A. The Great Heruka of the Adibuddha
(Yab-Yum) / 144
B. The Five Wrathful Buddha-Herukas
(Yab-Yum) / 145
C. The Eight Keurima / 147
D. The Eight Phra-men-ma / 148
E. The Four Animal-Headed Female Guardians of
the Mandala / 149
F. The 28 Powerful Animal-Headed
Goddesses / 150
G. The Five Jnana-Dakinis and the Powerful
Vajrakumara-Heruka / 154
3. From the Books of the Dead of the Pre-Buddhist
Ancient Tibetan Bon Religion / 156
A. The Peaceful Deities / 159
B. The Wrathful Deities / 167
IV Psyche and Awareness / 173
V Some Comparisons with Ideas about Death and the
After-Life in Other Cultures / 185
1. Indian Insights in the Upanisads / 188
2. Comparable Elements in the Religions of Persia,
Babylon, and Egypt / 194
3. Comparable Elements with the Greeks, Romans, and
Germans / 198
4. The Soul and Death for the Manicheans and the
Mandaeans / 200
5. The Soul, Light, Life and Death in Some Western
Schools of Thought / 202
VI Psychological Commentary to the Bar-do thos-grol / 211
1. General Basic Thoughts from Buddhist Philosophy
and Elements of Psychology / 213
A. Suffering and the Pleasure-Pain Principle / 213
B. The Two Stages of Liberation / 215
C. Ignorance and Wisdom / 215
D. On the Relation of Mind and Body / 217
E. Karma and Self-Responsibility / 218
F. Alayavijnana and Archetypal Structures / 220
2. Psychological Aspects of the Tibetan Book of the
Dead / 224
VII Notes / 241
VIII Bibliography / 250
1. Tibetan Original Sources / 250
A. Tibetan Buddhist Texts / 250
B. Tibetan Texts of the Bon-po Religion / 252
2. Secondary Literature / 252
3. Comparative Literature / 254
Plates appear between pages 100—101.
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