Bardo - Wikipedia
Used without qualification, "bardo" is the state of existence intermediate between two lives on earth. According to Tibetan tradition, after death and before one's next birth, when one's consciousness is not connected with a physical body, one experiences a variety of phenomena.
After Death States: The Bardos in Tibetan Buddhism
What are the Bardos? The central orienting view in the Tibetan tradition of “thanatology” (the study of death and dying) is that of the bardos. This Tibetan word “Bardo” is translated as “gap, interval, intermediate state, transitional process, or in …
Bardo - Encyclopedia of Buddhism
bardo (T. bar do བར་དོ་) is the Tibetan translation for the Sanskrit term antarābhava, which refers to the "intermediate state" between death and rebirth. In Tibetan Buddhism, the term bardo is used in the following senses: a set of four or six transitional states …
Bardo, Death and Dying - Tibetan Medicine Education Center
What is bardo ? Bardo refers here to the mind in the intermediate state after death or when the consciousness is separated from the previous body. It is the state between the past life and the next coming life. The mind born in Bardo gets a mental dream-like body, which can leave and reach anyplace any time without any obstacles.
The Six Bardos: A Vajrayana Buddhist Perspective on Death and …
The Tibetan word bardo (བར་དོ་ Wylie: bar do) means literally "intermediate state"—also translated as "transitional state" or "in-between state" or "liminal state". In Sanskrit the concept has the name antarabhāva.
What is Bardo? | Buddhism A–Z - Lion's Roar
Bardo is a Tibetan word meaning “gap” or “intermediate state.” Most famously, it refers to what we experience in the period, or bardo, between death and rebirth, as described in The Tibetan Book of the Dead. More generally, the word may refer to …
The Bardos or Stages of the Afterlife - Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia
The bardo concept is an umbrella term which includes the transitional states of birth, death, dream, transmigration or afterlife, meditation, and spiritual luminosity. We focus, in this essay, on the bardos of death and transmigration.
An Introduction to the Bardo - Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia
What, therefore, is a bardo? A bardo is a state that is “neither here nor there”: by definition it is something that comes “in between,” an intermediate state. the six bardos are: 1. THE NATURAL BARDO OF THE PRESENT LIFE. The natural bardo of the present life covers the period between birth and death.
The word bardo literally means "an interval between two things." Bar means 'interval' and do means 'two'. We can think of this interval in a spatial or temporal way. If there are two houses, the space between them is a bardo. The period between …
Bardo Thodol: The Tibetan Book of the Dead - Learn Religions
2019年3月12日 · The "Bardo Thodol" describes lights of many colors and visions of wrathful and peaceful deities. Those in the bardo are challenged to not be afraid of these visions, which are projections of mind. This is the bardo of sambhogakaya, the reward of spiritual practice.