The Egyptian text was named 'Book of the Dead' by a nineteenth-century Egyptologist. The Tibetan Bardo Thödol was retitled 'Tibetan Book of the Dead' in 1927 specifically to echo it — a marketing analogy, not a shared origin. The Orphic gold tablets are a third, wholly independent instance.
Karl Richard Lepsius, coining 'Todtenbuch' in 1842; W. Y. Evans-Wentz's 1927 English title for the Bardo Thödol
Three unrelated traditions of route-instructions for the newly dead, now popularly treated as one shared ancient genre.
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