How to Live and Die, 9798890700018
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Face death, embrace impermanence, and learn how to truly live.
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How to Live and Die

the transformative power of meditating on impermanence

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  • Paperback

    308 pages

  • Release Date

    7 November 2025

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Summary

Transform Your Life by Understanding Death

In this authoritative account of one of the most important practices in Tibetan Buddhism, Lama Zopa shows us how facing the reality of death and impermanence can transform and enrich our life.

What death is, how we die, what minds we need at death and what happens after death–only by knowing about death and rebirth can we actually fully understand what life is and so learn how to live fully. –Lama Zopa Rinpoche<…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9798890700018
Series:Wisdom Culture Series
Author:Gordon McDougall, Lama Zopa
Publisher:Wisdom Publications,U.S.
Imprint:Wisdom Publications,U.S.
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:308
Release Date:7 November 2025
Weight:454g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm
About The Author

Gordon McDougall

Lama Zopa Rinpoche was one of the most internationally renowned masters of Tibetan Buddhism, working and teaching ceaselessly on almost every continent. He was the spiritual director and cofounder of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), an international network of Buddhist projects, including monasteries in six countries and meditation centers in over thirty; health and nutrition clinics, and clinics specializing in the treatment of leprosy and polio; as well as hospices, schools, publishing activities, and prison outreach projects worldwide. He passed away in 2023.

Gordon McDougall was director of Cham Tse Ling, the FPMT’s Hong Kong center, for two years in the 1980s and worked for Jamyang Buddhist Centre in London from 2000 to 2007. He helped develop the Foundation of Buddhist Thought study program and administered it for seven years. Since 2008 he has been editing Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s lamrim teachings for Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive’s FPMT Lineage series.

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