The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Liberation Through Hearing in the Bardo
- Date of account
- 1970s Indian and international editions
- Location
- Dharamsala and Tibetan exile communities
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Bardo Thödol circulated in numerous English editions during the 1970s, including versions associated with Tibetan exile institutions and earlier Evans-Wentz transmission. It is a liturgical and funerary text concerning intermediate states, ritual reading, visionary imagery, and liberation through hearing. The lead matters for studying how Tibetan ritual literature entered occult, psychedelic, and comparative-religion discourse. Researchers should identify the translator, lineage, and recension, since the English title covers materially different editorial projects and is often misleadingly treated as a single book.
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