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The Bardo Thodol (Tibetan: བར་དོ་ཐོས་གྲོལ, Wylie: bar do thos grol, 'Liberation through hearing during the intermediate state'), commonly known in the West as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, is a terma text from a larger corpus of teachings, the Profound Dharma of Self-Liberation through the Intention of the Peaceful and Wrathful Ones,[1][note 1] revealed by Karma Lingpa (1326–1386). It is the best-known work of Nyingma literature.[3] In 1927 the text was one of the first examples of both Tibetan and Vajrayana literature to be translated into a European language and arguably continues to this day to be the best known.[4][5]
The Tibetan text describes, and is intended to guide one through, the experiences that the consciousness has after death, in the bardo, the interval between death and the next rebirth. The text also includes chapters on the signs of death and rituals to undertake when death is closing in or has taken place. The text can be used as either an advanced practice for trained meditators or to support the uninitiated during the death experience.
^Fremantle 2001, p. 20.
^Norbu 1989, p. ix.
^Coleman 2005.
^Fremantle & Trungpa 2003.
^"Tibetan Book of the Dead, Casey Alexandra Kemp". www.oxfordbibliographies.com.
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misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Tibetan characters. The BardoThodol (Tibetan: བར་དོ་ཐོས་གྲོལ, Wylie: bar do thos grol, 'Liberation through...
life and death. In Tibetan Buddhism, bardo is the central theme of the BardoThodol (literally Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State)...
consciousness whilst they are in the intermediate state, or bardo, between death and rebirth. The BardoThodol, commonly known in the West as "The Tibetan Book of...
Buddhist treatise, which is colloquially known as the Book of the Dead (BardoThodol). Tibetan tantricism appears to have influenced the procedure. The body...
Karma Lingpa (1326–1386) was the tertön (revealer) of the BardoThodol, the so-called Tibetan Book of the Dead. Tradition holds that he was a reincarnation...
the BardoThodol (also known as The Tibetan Book of the Dead). In his book The Mythic Image, Campbell quotes Jung's statement about the BardoThodol, that...
intermediate period bardo between death and rebirth. Amongst them are the famous "Tibetan Book of the Dead", in Tibetan BardoThodol, the "Natural Liberation...
from the perspective of everyday reality). In addition to this, the BardoThodol, Tibet's famous book of the dead, repeatedly states that all of reality...
teachings of Tibetan Buddhism based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead or BardoThodol. The author wrote, "I have written The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying...
ISBN 0-15-100500-1. The Psychedelic Experience at Lycaeum Tibetan Book of the Dead (BardoThödol) at Oxford Research. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.200 v t e...
offering dhupa is personified in the dakini Dhupa, who is said in the BardoThödol to appear on the third day. Hinduism portal Añjali Mudrā Buddhist prayer...
Hindu ritual worship and history. In Buddhism, some old versions of the BardoThodol, also known as The "Tibetan Book of the Dead", contain a hexagram with...
[3] The Book of the Craft of Dying, Swanson, Catholic England, 127. BardoThodol, Tibetan book of the Dead Book of the Dead, Egyptian book of the Dead...
hostage, and their elusiveness on the run stymies Frank and Emma. 63 18 "BardoThodol" Thomas J. Wright Chip Johannessen & Virginia Stock April 23, 1999 (1999-04-23)...
Dead Part II: The Great Liberation (1994), narrator – documentary on BardoThodol directed by Yukari Hayashi [nl]. Released on DVD in 2004. Message to...
contain teachings of Padmasambhava. According to Tibetan tradition, the BardoThodol (commonly referred to as the Tibetan Book of the Dead) was among these...
alcohol and drugs. The ensemble name Deathgasm is an inspiration from the BardoThodol (the so-called Tibetan Book of the Dead) and the Gaspar Noé film Enter...
(1955), by D. T. Suzuki and (iii) the Tibetan book of the dead, the BardoThodol (1960), edited by Walter Evans-Wentz and mentions the sociologic influences...
bardo (Sanskrit: antarābhava), the intermediate or liminal state between life and death. Rituals and the readings of texts such as the BardoThodol are...
best known terma text is the so-called Tibetan book of the dead, the BardoThodol. A sadhana is a tantric spiritual practice text used by practitioners...
evident in the terma traditions of the BardoThodol (Gyurme, et al. 2005) where they are the "coloured lights" of the bardo for example, associated with the...
from Sanskrit into one of the modern regional Indo-Aryan languages. The BardoThodol is revealed to the tertön Karma Lingpa. c. 1300 Anonymous – Gesta Romanorum...
Qolasta serve as funerary texts. Tibetan Buddhists still make use of the BardoThodol (also known as ""Tibetan Book of the Dead"", dating to ca. the 8th century)...
Chanting and reciting Buddhist texts is a common practice; in Tibet the BardoThodol is used to guide the dying to a good rebirth. Traditional Buddhism would...
Niguma have played in the development of the Shangpa Kagyu lineage. BardoThodol (Tibetan Book of the Dead) Tsa lung Trul khor (Tibetan Yoga) Roberts...
experience paralleled the death/rebirth experience described in the BardoThodol (Tibetan Book of the Dead). Leary and Alpert, unfazed by their dismissals...
GOSS DENNIS (1997). "Tibetan Buddhism and the resolution of grief: The Bardo-Thodol for the dying and the grieving". Death Studies. 21 (4): 377–395. doi:10...
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