Forty Nine Days: A Buddhist Guide to Dying and Accompanying the Dying

Someone you love is dying. Or you have been given a diagnosis. Or you are sitting at a deathbed with no idea what to do, what to say, or whether any of it matters. Forty-Nine Days was written for that moment, and for the preparation that must begin long before the crisis arrives.Drawing on more than two decades of practice inside four Buddhist traditions, this book brings together what the traditi...