The Tibetan book of the dead

It's hard to give a rating for religious scripture, but as for this edition, I found the commentary and the glossary very good additions. The Great Liberation Through Hearing In The Bardo itself is a hefty read and hard to follow in places, but granted, it's not even meant to be studied only once, but to be savoured and understood slowly throughout life. The text is very vivid, containing various descriptions of places, states-of-being and otherworldly beings that one's mind is capable of projecting at the time of death and immediately after. This should be an interesting read to anyone curious about the metaphysics of death or what goes through the mind of someone at the very brink of death.