The Tibetan Book of the Dead

The book was inspired by the bardo thurdo, a book allegedly written by masambava. No copies of it are known to have existed before the fourteenth century. Its title translators liberation through hearing during the intermediate state. Lery das and mensner rewrote the book into a form that could be used to guide a reader through a psychodolic trip. The tibetan buddhists talked about the three phases of experience on the intermediate planes between death and rebirth. We translated this to refer to the death and the rebirth of the ego of ordinary personality.