A guidebook to natural awakening or enlightenment, this book lays out a path of simple, unrestricted practices leading to the exact same result as the revered tradition of Tibetan Dzogchen -- total awakening. Luminous Awareness translates the mystical and complex rituals and practices of The Tibetan Book of the Dead into a path of simple daily actions we can all apply right now.

Luminous Awareness is about life and death, but it is also about much more. Its true focus is how we can all awaken to our true or enlightened nature, which is the ultimate nature of all. This single, easy to read book contains everything you might need on the Buddhist path.

Inspired by the spirit of simplicity and openness of the Tibetan Dzogchen or Great Perfection tradition, Luminous Awareness is a comprehensive guide to living and dying with purpose and heart. The book contains easy to apply guidance on the practices related to The Tibetan Book of the Dead that lead to complete liberation in our own lifetimes.

In this book you will find simple meditations and contemplations to transform your experience of daily life into one of awakening, as well as lucid descriptions of the processes of dying, the after-death states (or bardos) and rebirth or reincarnation.

Pema Diddul, a Buddhist chaplain, poet and scholar, is a student of Dudjom Rinpoche (1904-1987), Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, Lama Karma Lhundup Rinpoche and Dungse Namgyal Dawa Rinpoche. He has decades of experience teaching the Dharma in the modern world and teaches with great clarity and simplicity. With Luminous Awareness he shows how to apply the mystical bardo teachings to our everyday experience and bring purpose and joy to both living and dying.

Luminous Awareness: A Guidebook to Natural Awakening in Life and Death, Pema Duddul, Timeless Awareness Publications, Paperback, 311 pages, $14.99

Pema Duddul is an author, Buddhist Chaplain and the Co-Director of Pristine Awareness: Foundation for Buddhist Practice. Pema has been a Buddhist for forty years, discovering at the age of eleven that his personal worldview and the tenets of Buddhism were in perfect accordance. From 2000 to 2005 Pema held genyen (anagarika) vows with celibacy and undertook a series of retreats of varying durations. In 2005 he received the tantric vows of a white-robe wearer in the Dudjom tradition, the Tibetan Buddhist equivalent of a non-monastic religious minister. Pema has decades of experience as a Buddhist practitioner and has taught mindfulness and meditation in Buddhist, educational and other settings since 2007. Pema is also a transpersonal counsellor and certified practitioner of hypnotherapy. Pema was given blessing to teach Dharma in 2006. Pema belongs to the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, specifically the Dudjom lineage. He lives in Australia with his partner, who is a long term retreatant of the Drukpa Kagyu lineage, and two cats who are lifelong devotees of the purring lineage.