Buddhist Resources on death, dying, end of life care & grief counselling–
Grief Counselling & End-of-Life Care in the Theravada Tradition – a video interview with Rev. Jeewananda Thero of Mahamenawa Buddhist Monastery, Markham, Ontario, 28 minutes
How to hold, process and experience growth with grief – a video interview with Ven. Bhante Kusala of the West End Buddhist Temple and Meditation Centre, Mississauga, Ontario, 22 minutes
Healing from grief in the Japanese Zen Tradition, a video interview with Roshi Chodo Campbell of New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, 24 minutes
Grief Counselling in the Tibetan Tradition, a video interview with Lama Rinzin, 13 minutes.
For additional information about the books listed below: Click here for the file that lists the book publisher names and comments
| Author | Title |
| Barbara Karnes, RN | Gone from My Sight (End of Life Guideline Series) |
| Bernhard, Toni | How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and their Caregivers |
| Blackman, Sushila | Graceful Exits: How Great Beings Die |
| Callanan, Maggie; Kelley, Patricia | Final Gifts |
| Chagdud Tulku | Life in Relation to Death |
| Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche | Medicine & Compassion |
| Dalai Lama | Advice on Dying |
| DeLeo, Kirsten | Present Through the End: A Caring Companion’s Guide for Accompanying the Dying |
| Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche | Living is Dying: How to Prepare for Death, Dying, and Beyond |
| Francesca Fremantle | Luminous Emptiness: Understanding the Tibetan Book of the Dead |
| Gehlek Rinpoche | Good Life, Good Death |
| Glassman, Bernie | Bearing Witness |
| Guy Newland | A Buddhist Grief Observed |
| Halifax, Joan Roshi | Being with Dying |
| Hoblitzelle, Olives Ames | Ten Thousand Joys & Ten Thousand Sorrows |
| Holecek, Andrew | Preparing to Die |
| Hookham, Shenpen Lama | There’s More to Dying Than Death: a Buddhist Perspective |
| Joan Halifax | Standing at the Edge |
| Koshin Paley Ellison and Matt Weingast (eds.) | Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End-of-Life Care |
| Levine, Stephen | Who Dies? |
| Lief, Judith | Making Friends with Death: A Buddhist Guide to Encountering Mortality |
| Linda Hochstetler | 21 Days to Die |
| Longaker, Christine | Facing Death and Finding Hope: A Guide to the Emotional and Spiritual Care of the Dying |
| Mannix, Kathryn | With the End in Mind |
| Mingyur Rinpoche | In Love with the World: A Monk’s Journey through the Bardos |
| Mullen, Glenn, trans. | Death and Dying: The Tibetan Tradition |
| Ostataseki, Frank | The Five Invitations |
| Padmasambhava, commentary by Gyatrul Rinpoche, trans. by B. Alan Wallace | Natural Liberation (out of print – but sometimes copies become available) |
| Padmasambhava; Gyurme Dorje, trans. | The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation |
| Pema Chodron | Embracing the Unknown: Life Lessons from the Tibetan Book of the Dead |
| Ponlop Rinpoche | Mind beyond Death |
| Reynolds, John Myrdhin | Self-Liberation Through Seeing with Naked Awareness |
| Sogyal Rinpoche | The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying |
| Stephen Levine | Meetings at the Edge: Dialogues with the Grieving and the Dying, the Healed and the Healed |
| Stephen Levine Sumanacears, Ashin | Unattended Sorrow Meaningful Life, Fearless Death: Spiritual Insights on Death, Dying, Hospice Care and Grief Counseling |
| Thich Nhat Hahn | No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life |
| Thompson, Evan | Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy |
| Thrangu Rinpoche | Journey of the Mind: Putting the Teachings on the Bardo into Effective Practice |
| Tiso, Francis V. | Rainbow Body and Resurrection: Spiritual Attainment, the Dissolution of the Material Body, and the Case of Khenpo A Cho |
| Tulku Thondup | Peaceful Death, Joyful Rebirth |
| Tulku Thondup | Boundless Healing |
Other Resources and Items of Interest
| adapted by Jean- Claude van Italie | The Tibetan Book of the Dead for Reading Aloud |
| Anderson, Laurie | Heart of a Dog |
| Anderson, Laurie Tenzin Choegyal Jesse Paris Smith | Songs from the Bardo |
| Atul Gawande | Being Mortal |
| David Servan-Schreiber, M.D. | Not the Last Goodbye |
| Ira Byock, M.D | Dying Well |
| Ira Byock, M.D. | The Four Things That Matter Most |
| Kathleen Dowling Singh | The Grace in Dying: A Message of Hope, Comfort, and Spiritual Transformation |
| Kathy Kortes-Miller | Talking About Death Won’t Kill You: The essential guide to end-of-life conversations |
| Leary, Timothy | The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead |
| Lorraine Hedtke and John Winslade | Re-membering Lives: Conversations with the Dying and the Bereaved |
| Marie de Hennezel | Intimate Death: How the Dying Teach Us to Live |