With a new foreword and afterword by Donald S. Lopez, this translation of the "Tibetan Book of the Dead" includes a new suggested further reading list and highlights the book's role in encouraging scholarly and popular interest in Tibetan religion. Dr. Evans-Wentz, who literally sat at the feet of a Tibetan lama for years in order to acquire his wisdom...not only displays a deeply sympathetic interest in those esoteric doctrines so characteristic of the genius of the East, but likewise possesses the rare faculty of making them more or less intelligible to the layman.