DECODING THE PAST: Tibetan Book Of The DeadBased on the Buddhist belief in reincarnation, the Book of the Dead is a guidebook for the dead: a map of the afterlife that includes encounters with gods, demons and one's own future parents at the moment of conception. Written in the eighth century, its description of the Tibetan afterlife bears an uncanny similarity to modern stories of the near-death experience. Written by a mysterious Indian sage, the text was lost for centuries and kept hidden in the remote peaks of the Himalayas. Indeed, the book was not even translated into English until the twentieth century when it was proclaimed the ideal guide to the spiritual life by everyone from Carl Jung to Timothy Leary. Interviews with Tibetan Lamas, American scholars, and practicing Buddhists bring this powerful and mysterious text to life. The programme culminates in a computer graphic recreation of the journey of the soul from death, through the terrors and trials of the afterlife, to rebirth into a new life.
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The number of errors and innacuracies in this documentary appaled me! I recommend to other people to read the book and forget about the film - it's not worth the waste of time.
ReplyDeleteIt did come from the History Channel, which likes making half truth revisions of History. I havent watched it yet, the guy with the knife on the front is a little off putting.
ReplyDeleteHehe, so I guess this documentary stays in tune with the half-truths from this channel...
ReplyDeleteAnyway, nobody even talks about Nirvana in the documentary... And the reincarnation in the human realm is recommended as the best choice! How come? The books doesn't say this! Also, the sky burial is wrongly and incompletely presented. And, of course, the history is incomplete and full of innacuracies.