The Tibetan Book of the Dead Club was a series of seven sessions run in 2010 exploring this seminal guide to the afterlife from seven different vantage points. Each week Dr. Ramon Prats, curator of the Bardo exhibition and distinguished translator of The Tibetan Book of the Dead into Spanish, engaged with an expert from a different discipline: a neuroscientist, a dream analyst, an Egyptologist etc to explore how this text, born out of one ancient culture, can be applied to our present.
Ramon N. Prats was the first person to translate The Tibetan Book of the Dead into Spanish. He holds a doctoral degree in Tibetan Studies from the Oriental Institute of the University of Naples (Italy), where he was associate professor of Tibetan language and literature from 1980 to 1995. He was subsequently appointed professor of Buddhist studies at the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona (Spain). From 2006 to 2009 he was Senior Curator at the Rubin Museum of Art, where he organized an exhibition on the Bardo Thodrol, among others. Ramon Prats has more than sixty publications to his credit.
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