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 |