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NOTES 403am) I shall not live to see the next day and yet not one among myacquaintances could say that in my intercourse with them I am stubbornor morose—and for this source of happiness I thank my Creatorevery day and wish with all my heart the same for my fellowcreatures."Mozart's Letters, an illustrated edition, translated by EmilyAnderson (London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1990).11. Plato's Republic, translated by F. M. Cornford (Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press, 1966), 350.12. An explanation given by His Holiness the Dalai Lama during apublic teaching in New York, October 1991.13. His Holiness the Dalai Lama, in a dialogue with David Bohm,in Dialogues with Scientists and Sages: The Search for Unity, edited byRenée Weber (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986), 237.14. H. W. Schumann, The Historical Buddha (London: Arkana,1989), 139.15. Schumann, The Historical Buddha, 55.16. Shantideva, A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life (Bodhicaryavatara),translated by Stephen Batchelor (Dharamsala: Library ofTibetan Works and Archives, 1979), 120.17. His Holiness the Dalai Lama, A Policy of Kindness: An Anthologyof Writings by and about the Dalai Lama: (Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion,1990), 58.18. Saddharmapundarika Sutra, quoted in Tulku Thondup, BuddhaMind (Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 1989), 215.19. David Lorimer treats this topic in depth in his Whole in One:The Near-Death Experience and the Ethic of Interconnectedness (London:Arkana, 1990).20. Raymond A. Moody, Jr., Reflections on Life After Life (London:Corgi, 1978), 35.21. Ring, Heading Towards Omega, 71.22. Raymond A. Moody, Jr., The Light Beyond (London: Pan,1989), 38.23. P. M. H Atwater, Coming Back to Life (New York: Dodd, Mead,1988), 36.24. From Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions, translated by SonjaBargmann (New York: Crown Publishers, 1954), quoted in Weber, ed.,Dialogues with Scientists and Sages, 203.25. His Holiness the Dalai Lama, My Land and My People: TheAutobiography of the Dalai Lama (London: Panther, 1964), 24.7. BARDOS AND OTHER REALITIES1. Egyptian Book of the Dead is itself an artificial title coined by itstranslator, E. A. Wallis Budge, after the Arab Book of the Deceased, andhaving as little to do with the original title: "Coming Forth into theDay."