Understanding of Death in Tibetan Buddhism

Abstract

How has Tibetan Buddhism understood death? Through an analysis of "The Tibetan Book of the Dead" I will clarify Tibetan Buddhism's essential attitude toward death, and how it relates to us. Tibetan Buddhism believes each of us possesses a cosmologically existing invisible body which helps us meet death, which Tibetan Buddhism considers to be a climax to life. What we ought to learn from this point of view is a way of meeting our own death. The human body will physiologically prepare us for innate death, no matter how our consciousness may perceive it.