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Tibetan Buddhism and the resolution of grief: the Bardo-thodol for the dying and the grieving.

Posted in Death & Dying, Grief on Sep 22nd, 2008

 Death Stud. 1997 Jul-Aug;21(4):377-95. Goss RE, Klass D.
Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
This article is a contribution to the cross-cultural study of grief. The Bardo-thodol (sometimes translated the Tibetan Book of the Dead) and the ritual associated with it provides a way to understand how Buddhism in Tibetan culture manages the issues associated with what [...]

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Being present: experiential connections between Zen Buddhist practices and the grieving process.

Posted in Death & Dying, Grief on Sep 22nd, 2008

Disabil Rehabil. 1997 Oct;19(10):442-51
Edwards M.
University Support Centre, University of Western Australia, Australia. medwards@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
The Zen Buddhist contemplative tradition involves several meditation and instructional techniques that have strong phenomenological and theoretical connections with the experience of loss and the process of grief. From experiences which occurred during personal encounters with individuals (three of whom had a disability) [...]

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