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The Tibetan Book of the Dead is one of the texts that, according to legend, Padma-Sambhava was compelled to hide during his visit to Tibet in the late 8th century The guru hid his books in stones, lakes, and pillars because the Tibetans of that day and age were somehow unprepared for their teachings. Now, in the form of the ever-popular Tibetan Book of the Dead, these teachings are constantly being discovered and rediscovered by Western readers of many different backgrounds--a phenomenon which began in 1927 with Oxford's first edition of Dr. Evans-Wentz's landmark volume. While it is traditionally used as a mortuary text, to be read or recited in the presence of a dead or dying person, this book--which relates the whole experience of death and rebirth in three intermediate states of being--was originally understood as a guide not only for the dead but also for the living. As a contribution to the science of death and dying--not to mention the belief in life after death, or the belief in rebirth--The Tibetan Book of the Dead is unique among the sacred texts of the world, for its socio-cultural influence in this regard is without comparison.

This fourth edition features a new foreword, afterword, and suggested further reading list by Donald S. Lopez, author of Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West. Lopez traces the whole history of the late Evans-Wentz's three earlier editions of this book, fully considering the work of contributors to previous editions (C. G. Jung among them), the sections that were added by Evans-Wentz along the way, the questions surrounding the book's translation, and finally the volume's profound importance in engendering both popular and academic interest in the religion and culture of Tibet. Another key theme that Lopez addresses is the changing nature of this book's audience--from the prewar theosophists to the beat poets to the hippies to contemporary exponents of the hospice movement--and what these audiences have found (or sought) in its very old pages..
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Living alone with his dog in the remote cabin in the woods, Julius Winsome is not unlike the barren winter lands that he inhabits: remote, vacant, inscrutable But when his dog Hobbes is killed by hunters, their carelessness—or is it cruelty?—sets Julius’s precarious mindset on end.

He is at once more alone than he has ever been; he was at first with his father, until he died; then with Claire, until she disappeared with another man into a more normal life in town; and then with Hobbes, who eased the sorrow of Claire’s departure Now Hobbes is gone.

Julius is left with what his father left behind: the cabin that he was raised in; a lifetime of books, lining every wall of his home, which have been Julius’s lifelong friends and confidantes; and his great-grandfather’s rifle from World War I, which Julius had been trained to shoot with uncanny skill and with the utmost reluctance. But with the death of his dog, Julius’s reluctance has reached its end. More and more, simply and furtively, it is revenge that is creeping into his mind.

Fresh snow is on the ground as the hunters lumber into his sights. They’re well within the old gun’s range. They pause, and they’re locked into the crosshairs. Julius’s finger traces the trigger. Will he pull it? And what will that accomplish? What if he simply has nothing left to lose?.
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Books, audiotapes, and classes about yoga are today as familiar as they are widespread, but we in the West have only recently become engaged in the meditative doctrines of the East--only in the last 70 or 80 years, in fact. In the early part of the 20th century, it was the pioneering efforts of keen scholars like W. Y. Evans-Wentz, the late editor of this volume, that triggered our ongoing occidental fascination with such phenomena as yoga, Zen, and meditation. Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines--a companion to the popular Tibetan Book of the Dead, which is also published by Oxford in an authoritative Evans-Wentz edition--is a collection of seven authentic Tibetan yoga texts that first appeared in English in 1935.
In these pages, amid useful photographs and reproductions of yoga paintings and manuscripts, readers will encounter some of the principal meditations used by Hindu and Tibetan gurus and philosophers throughout the ages in the attainment of Right Knowledge and Enlightenment. Special commentaries precede each translated text, and a comprehensive introduction contrasts the tenets of Buddhism with European notions of religion, philosophy, and science. Evans-Wentz has also included a body of orally transmitted traditions and teachings that he received firsthand during his fifteen-plus years of study in the Orient, findings that will interest any student of anthropology, psychology, comparative religion, or applied Mahayana Yoga. These seven distinct but intimately related texts will grant any reader a full and complete view of the spiritual teachings that still inform the life and culture of the East. As with Evans-Wentz's other three Oxford titles on Tibetan religion, which are also appearing in new editions, this third edition of Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines features a new foreword by Donald S. Lopez, author of the recent Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West..
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"We don't have to be immobilized by doubts on how to witness any longer," says Doug Batchelor about this fresh book on dynamic ways to share your faith. Author Gary Gibbs illuminates useful how-to instruction with inspiring and humorous stories from his witnessing adventures. Here you will learn simple skills to lead people to Christ, insights to revitalize your church, a proven strategy to give interesting Bible sudies, and much more. This practical manual is sure to energize our relationship with God..
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In the Sweet By and By (first volume of the 8book comedy series The Winsome Ways of Miz Eudora Rumph) will leave you clamoring for the next adventure Set in NCs Smackass Gap (a real place in mountainous Clay County), Miz Eudora takes you on a zany journey of fun and laughter when she gets picked up by mistake, on the way home from husband Horaces funeral, by a busload of Red Hatters. Its all Preacher Jakes fault, for when he informs her that the funeral is to be a celebration, Miz Eudora leaves the black wool dress in the blamed old cedar chest, stating, I didnt know everybody was so glad Horace died! She shows up at the service in the most festive clothes she can find a purple fopher coat, a red hat, a new, used red leather purse and red orthopedic shoes to match! With her sidekick sisterinlaw, socialite Mabel Toast Jarvis (for whom she has little use), Miz Eudora will keep you in stitches from the first chapter to the last with her pure, simplistic spirit, her strong epitomeofamountainwoman will and attitude and her golden nuggets of wisdom..
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"Each young woman has a peucliar and individual question to settle. What she is now forecasts what she may be, indeed what she will be, twenty years hence." Margaret E. Sangster

This revised and expanded classic was designed to give mothers and daughters,ages 15 and up, a tool to use in the mentoring process. Seven weeks of Bible Study, Projects, Journalling and Discussion Questions on issues that pertain to the young woman in the daybreak of their lives..
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As parents we have a mandate from our creator to not only birth children but to raise them to love and fear the Lord. See Deuteronomy 4: 1-9..
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