This book is based on a lively and fascinating first-person account, a kind of “travel notes” about a journey through the intermediate states of the bardo and pure lands, compiled by a sixteen-year-old girl from Eastern Tibet named Dawa Drolma, who later became a famous female lama, a spiritual mentor and delog, one who stepped beyond the threshold of death and returned to this world in order to tell people about what he saw. What she observed during this five-day journey through other planes of existence gave rise to boundless compassion in her towards all living beings. Her deep spiritual experience became for many a vivid confirmation of the truth of the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism about karma, death and those worlds that lie beyond it.

About the author: Delog Dawa Drolma is the mother of Chagdul Tulku Rinpoche, a famous Tibetan lama of the tradition Nyingma. Her diaries were preserved by Rinpoche's sister, Thinley Wangmo, who remained in occupied Tibet. When Rinpoche visited Tibet for the first time in 28 years in 1987, she gave him this manuscript.