The Tibetan Book of the Dead · Reading 3 of 170
Book I: The Chikhai Bardo and the Chönyid Bardo
The Introduction
This Great Doctrine of Liberation by Hearing, which conferreth spiritual freedom on devotees of ordinary wit while in the Intermediate State, hath three divisions: the preliminaries, the subject-matter, and the conclusion.
At first, the preliminaries, The Guide Series, for emancipating beings, should be mastered by practice.