ABSTRACT
It should be noted that the Eastern mind considers the solution of the problem of death as related to the awareness of Cosmic Consciousness which we can realize in this life. One is a wide and deeply conceived compassion and the other is an enlightened approach to dying and death. This Self, according to the Hindu tradition, transcends the desire-oriented ego and its mortality; it is our cosmically related consciousness that leads us beyond the boundaries of births and deaths. Tibetan Buddhism, perhaps the loftiest expression of the Eastern spirituality, originates in the Mahayana tradition that leans heavily on the Tantras which are the religious scriptures of the Hindu school of mysticism. Perhaps more than in other religions of the world the problem of death in Buddhism is primarily psychological before it becomes a philosophical and a religious problem.
