Bar do thos grol · བར་དོ་ཐོས་གྲོལ།
The Modern Bardo
The text English readers know as the Tibetan Book of the Dead, rendered in plain modern English — six bardos, three commentary tracks, and an honest answer to what you do with it on a Tuesday and what you do with it at a bedside.
A$19.99one-off · 5 of 24 chapters published, the rest included as they land
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Free sample chapters are readable by anyone. Annual Medi-Chi subscribers get the whole book at no extra cost, the same as every other Medi-Chi title.
What you get
- Three commentary tracks — Living, Clinical and Traditional — on every chapter
- The six bardos as the tradition has them, in plain modern English
- Bedside chapters written for practitioners, with scope-of-practice kept clear
- Sources and citations on every chapter, linked to public-domain editions
- Tibetan terms with Wylie transliteration throughout
- Every future release of the book included — corrections and added chapters
Questions
- Is it included with my subscription?
- Yes — the annual Medi-Chi plan includes the whole book at no extra cost. Monthly subscribers can buy it one-off, and the sample chapters stay free for everyone.
- Is this a translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead?
- No. It is an original modern work that cites the root text and the 1927 Evans-Wentz / Kazi Dawa-Samdup rendering, both of which are out of copyright. Nothing is adapted from an in-copyright modern translation.
- Do I need to be Buddhist to read it?
- No. The Living track makes no religious claims at all, and the Traditional track presents the tradition on its own terms without asking you to adopt it.
- Do later chapters cost extra?
- No. One purchase covers every future release of the book.