The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying - Adaptations

Adaptations

• Director Stan Lai, in his project with the Dharma Department of the National Institute of Arts, Taiwan, developed a 7 hour drama with as the starting point and central theme, a story that Rinpoche told in the book about “Patient Five” a woman who tells the story of her life as she faces imminent death.
• Australian composer, Nigel Westlake’s son was murdered just before the age of 21. Filled with grief he said, "When we lost Eli, I found myself obsessing about where he was and what we could do to help him," Westlake says. "I found great consolation in the Buddhist teachings of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying." When he could begin composing again, he started writing a requiem for his son. The text of the third movement, The Hymn of Compassion, contains excerpts of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.