This PDF contains advice from Tibetan Buddhist master Lama Zopa Rinpoche on preparing for death and assisting others through this time, and provides a plethora of heart practices to do at the time of death, including the Medicine Buddha puja and the traditional eight prayers done in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries. This book also contains the most powerful mantras to say for those who are dying or who have died, teachings on their precise benefits, as well as a sheet of mantras to place upon the body of one who has died. It contains precious sutra texts to benefit the minds of those who are dying, to relieve pain, and to purify negative karma.

Contents Include:

• How to Benefit the Dying and the Dead
• The Wishfulfilling Jewel (Medicine Buddha Puja)
• A Very Short Medicine Buddha Practice
• Eight Prayers to Benefit the Dead
• Dedication Prayers
• Multiplication Mantras
• Mantras
• Meditation on Taking and Giving (Tonglen)
• The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom Sutra
• The Noble Sutra on Entering the Great City of Vaishali
• Confession of Downfalls to the Thirty-Five Buddhas
• Giving Breath to the Wretched
• Amitabha Phowa
• Helpful Resources

2008 edition, 231 pages.

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Note: The advice, teachings, and practices contained in Heart Practices for Death and Dying, as well as those contained in Heart Advice for Death and Dying, are included in a new book by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, How to Enjoy Death: Preparing to Meet Life’s Final Challenge without Fear. Also available as an eBook.