The Tibetan Book of the Dead in W. Y. Evans-Wentz’s 1927 edition
- Date of account
- 1927
- Location
- Tibetan Buddhist textual tradition; publication in London
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Evans-Wentz’s 1927 English edition introduced a broad Western readership to the Bardo Thodol’s account of visionary beings encountered between death and rebirth. The work offers a comparison for reports of guides, watchers and threatening apparitions, but it is a ritual funerary text, not an encounter narrative from the Arctic or sea. Its transmission, translation and editorial framing are central uncertainties. Researchers should consult Tibetan commentarial traditions and later scholarship rather than assume that Evans-Wentz’s title or categories represent a literal Tibetan equivalent of an angel.
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