If you can contimplate the compassion of the Buddha, you can then understand the compassion of God through Jesus.They are the same eternal love for mankind from two different sources. The Tebetan Book Of The Dead is a source of guidance and compassion for anyone going through a death(spiritual death or otherwise) experience. Christians absorb the deity of Christ at his death, and they have him as a source of guidance and compassion through the very same death experiences. They both teach the phylosophy of eternal life and a eternal love that exists in this life and goes with you clear through to the next life. That is Buddha, That is God.