Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

A rare, intimate account of a world-renowned Buddhist monk's near-death experience and the life-changing wisdom he gained from it

"One of the most generous, beautiful, and essential books I've ever read - beautifully written, thoroughly engaging, so clear, so honest, so courageous and full of wisdom… This book has the potential to change the reader's life forever." George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo

Yongey Mingyur is one of the most celebrated among the new generation of Tibetan meditation masters, whose teachings have touched people of all faiths around the world. His first book, The Joy of Living, was a New York Times bestseller hailed as “compelling, readable, and informed” (Buddhadharma) and praised by Richard Gere, Lou Reed, and Julian Schnabel for its clarity, wit, and unique insight into the relationship between science and Buddhism.