The Book of Awakening

"Although Alan Watts' famous voice and happy laughter are missing now, his penetrating vision of Buddhism remains, and his lectures become brilliant prose in book form." —Publishers Weekly

A perfect companion to the well-known Tibetan Book of the Dead.
In life and in death, in meditation and in sleep, every transitional stage of consciousness, or bardo, provides an opportunity to overcome limitations, frustrations, and fears. The profound teachings in this book provide the under- standing and instruction necessary to turn every phase of life into an opportunity for uncontrived, natural liberation.

The boy plucked from his idyllic home in a brutal invasion and the sister who follows desperately to rescue him. The iron-willed queen who risks everything to win a crown for her son and the righteous soldier who finds himself walking the fine line between justice and vengeance.