Bardo Teachings gives readers a precise and vivid description of the way of death and rebirth. It contains a wealth of heretofore untranslated material on the Tibetan presentation of the process of dying, the nature of the intermediate state after death, and the process of taking rebirth. This modest but carefully produced book presents the essence of the Tibetan Book of the Dead in a digestible form.

Bardo Teachings: The Way of Death and Rebirth, Lama Lodu Rinpoche, Snow Lion Publications, 73 pages, $18.95.

Lama Lodu Rinpoche is the director of Kagyu Droden Kunchab in San Francisco and was appointed as its resident lama in 1976 by His Holiness the Sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa and His Eminence Kalu Rinpoche.