Bardo Thodol - wikipedia Bardo Thodol Manuscript of the Bardo Thodol. Bardo Thodol Tibetan name Tibetan བར ་ དོ ་ ཐོས ་ གྲོལ Transcriptions Wylie bar do thos grol THL Bardo Tödröl Lhasa IPA ( phàrdo thǿɖøl ) This article contains Tibetan script. Without proper rendering support, you may see very small fonts, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Tibetan characters. 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It is the best - known work of Nyingma literature, and is known in the West as the Tibetan Book of the Dead. 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. Contents 1 Etymology 2 Original text 2.1 Origins and dating 2.2 bar do thos grol 2.3 kar - gling zhi - khro 2.4 Three bardos 3 English translations 3.1 Evans - Wentz 's The Tibetan Book of the Dead 3.2 Other translations and summaries 4 Popular influence 4.1 The Psychedelic Experience 4.2 Musical and cinematic works 5 See also 6 Notes 7 References 8 Sources 8.1 Printed sources 8.2 Web - sources 9 Further reading 10 External links Etymology Bardo thosgroll ( Tibetan : བར ་ དོ ་ ཐོས ་ གྲོལ, Wylie : bar do thos grol ) : bar do, Sanskrit antarabhāva : `` intermediate state '', `` transitional state '', `` in - between state '', `` liminal state ''. Valdez : `` Used loosely, the term `` bardo '' refers to the state of existence intermediate between two lives on earth. '' Valdez : `` ( The ) concept arose soon after the Buddha 's passing, with a number of earlier Buddhist groups accepting the existence of such an intermediate state, while other schools rejected it. '' thos grol : `` liberation '', which is synonymous with the Sanskrit word bodhi, `` awakening '', `` understanding '', `` enlightenment '', and synonymous with the term nirvana, `` blowing out '', `` extinction '', `` the extinction of illusion ''. Original text Origins and dating Centuries old Zhi - Khro mandala, a part of the Bardo Thodol 's collection, a text known in the West as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, which comprises part of a group of bardo teachings held in the Nyingma ( Tibetan tradition ) originated with guru Padmasambhava in the 8th Century. According to Tibetan tradition, the Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State was composed in the 8th century by Padmasambhava, written down by his primary student, Yeshe Tsogyal, buried in the Gampo hills in central Tibet and subsequently discovered by a Tibetan terton, Karma Lingpa, in the 14th century. Bar do thos grol The Tibetan title is bar do thos grol, Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State. It consists of two comparatively long texts : `` Great Liberation through Hearing : The Supplication of the Bardo of Dharmata '' ( chos nyid bar do'i gsol ' debs thos grol chen mo ), the bardo of dharmata ( including the bardo of dying ) ; `` Great Liberation through Hearing : The Supplication Pointing Out the Bardo of Existence '' ( strid pa'i bar do ngo sprod gsol ' debs thos grol chen mo ), the bardo of existence. Within the texts themselves, the two combined are referred to as Liberation through Hearing in the Bardo, Great Liberation through Hearing, or just Liberation through Hearing. Kar - gling zhi - khro It is part of a larger terma cycle, Profound Dharma of Self - Liberation through the Intention of the Peaceful and Wrathful Ones, ( zab - chos zhi khro dgongs pa rang grol, also known as kar - gling zhi - khro, popularly known as `` Karma Lingpa 's Peaceful and Wrathful Ones. '' The Profound Dharma of Self - Liberation is known in several versions, containing varying numbers of sections and subsections, and arranged in different orders, ranging from around ten to thirty - eight titles. The individual texts cover a wide range of subjects, including meditation instructions, visualizations of deities, liturgies and prayers, lists of mantras, descriptions of the signs of death, indications of future rebirth, and texts such as the bar do thos grol that are concerned with the bardo - state. Three bardos Main article : Bardo The Bardo Thodol differentiates the intermediate state between lives into three bardos : The chikhai bardo or `` bardo of the moment of death '', which features the experience of the `` clear light of reality '', or at least the nearest approximation of which one is spiritually capable ; The chonyid bardo or `` bardo of the experiencing of reality '', which features the experience of visions of various Buddha forms, or the nearest approximations of which one is capable ; The sidpa bardo or `` bardo of rebirth '', which features karmically impelled hallucinations which eventually result in rebirth, typically yab - yum imagery of men and women passionately entwined. The Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State also mentions three other bardos : `` Life '', or ordinary waking consciousness ; `` Dhyana '' ( meditation ) ; `` Dream '', the dream state during normal sleep. Together these `` six bardos '' form a classification of states of consciousness into six broad types. Any state of consciousness can form a type of `` intermediate state '', intermediate between other states of consciousness. Indeed, one can consider any momentary state of consciousness a bardo, since it lies between our past and future existences ; it provides us with the opportunity to experience reality, which is always present but obscured by the projections and confusions that are due to our previous unskillful actions. English translations Evans - Wentz 's the Tibetan Book of the Dead Tibetan Thanka of Bardo. Vision of Serene Deities, 19th Century, Giumet Museum The bar do thos grol is known in the west as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, a title popularized by Walter Evans - Wentz 's edition, but as such virtually unknown in Tibet. The Tibetan Book of the Dead was first published in 1927 by Oxford University Press. Dr. Walter Y. Evans - Wentz chose this title because of the parallels he found with the Egyptian Book of the Dead. According to John Myrdhin Reynolds, Evans - Wentz 's edition of the Tibetan Book of the Dead introduced a number of misunderstandings about Dzogchen. In fact, Evans - Wentz ' collected seven texts about visualization of the after - death experiences and he introduced this work collection as `` The Tibetan Book of Death. '' Evans - Wentz was well acquainted with Theosophy and used this framework to interpret the translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, which was largely provided by two Tibetan lamas who spoke English, Lama Sumdhon Paul and Lama Lobzang Mingnur Dorje. Evans - Wentz was not familiar with Tibetan Buddhism, and his view of Tibetan Buddhism was `` fundamentally neither Tibetan nor Buddhist, but Theosophical and Vedantist. '' He introduced a terminology into the translation which was largely derived from Hinduism, as well as from his Theosophical beliefs. Contrary to the general belief spread in the West by Evans - Wentz, in Tibetan Buddhist practice the Tibetan Book of Dead is not read to the people who are passing away, but it is rather used during life by those who want to learn to visualize what will come after death. Also Jung 's introduction betrays a misunderstanding of Tibetan Buddhism, using the text to discuss his own theory of the unconsciousness. Other translations and summaries Conze, Edward ( 1959 ) Buddhist Scriptures Harmondsworth : Penguin ( includes a précis ) Fremantle, Francesca & Chögyam Trungpa ( 1975 ) The Tibetan Book of the Dead : The Great Liberation through Hearing in the Bardo by Guru Rinpoche according to Karma Lingpa. Boulder : Shambhala ISBN 0 - 394 - 73064 - X, ISBN 1 - 59030 - 059 - 9 ( reissued 2003 ) Thurman, Robert ( trans. ) ( 1994 ) The Tibetan Book of the Dead, as popularly known in the West ; known in Tibet as `` The Great Book of Natural Liberation Through Understanding in the Between '' ; composed by Padma Sambhava ; discovered by Karma Lingpa ; foreword by the Dalai Lama London : Harper Collins ISBN 1 - 85538 - 412 - 4 Coleman, Graham, with Thupten Jinpa ( eds. ) ( 2005 ) The Tibetan Book of the Dead ( English title ) : The Great Liberation by Hearing in the Intermediate States ( Tibetan title ) ; composed by Padma Sambhava : revealed by Karma Lingpa ; translated by Gyurme Dorje. London : Penguin Books ISBN 978 - 0 - 14 - 045529 - 8 ( the first complete translation ). Also : New York : Viking Penguin, NY, 2006. ISBN 0 - 670 - 85886 - 2 ( hc ) ; ISBN 978 - 0 - 14 - 310494 - 0 ( pbk ) Thupten Jinpa ( ed. ) ( 2005 ) The Tibetan Book of the Dead ( Penguin Classics ). London : Penguin Books ( 2005 ) ISBN 0 - 7139 - 9414 - 2 Popular influence The psychedelic experience See also : Ego death The Psychedelic Experience, published in 1964, is a guide for LSD - trips, written by Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner and Richard Alpert, loosely based on Evan - Wentz 's translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Aldous Huxley introduced the Tibetan Book of the Dead to Timothy Leary. According to Leary, Metzer and Alpert, the Tibetan Book of the Dead is... a key to the innermost recesses of the human mind, and a guide for initiates, and for those who are seeking the spiritual path of liberation. They construed the effect of LSD as a `` stripping away '' of ego - defenses, finding parallels between the stages of death and rebirth in the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and the stages of psychological `` death '' and `` rebirth '' which Leary had identified during his research. According to Leary, Metzer and Albert it is...... one of the oldest and most universal practices for the initiate to go through the experience of death before he can be spiritually reborn. Symbolically he must die to his past, and to his old ego, before he can take his place in the new spiritual life into which he has been initiated. Musical and cinematic works Finnish composer Erik Bergman composed a work titled Bardo Thödol in 1974 for a speaker, mezzo - soprano, baritone, mixed choir and orchestra ; the text was based on a German translation of the Book of the Dead `` When I Was Done Dying '', by American musician and composer Dan Deacon, is strongly inspired by the Bardo Thodol. The narrator 's `` story '' begins at the very moment of his death, through multiple incarnations ( a plant, a crab and, at the end, a human ). The song. featured in an ( adult swim ) Off Air segment. The late 1960s band The Third Bardo took their name from the western title of this text. 1985 2 - part documentary filmed in Ladakh and the States, first part entitled `` The Tibetan Book of the Dead : A Way of Life '' ; the second part `` The Tibetan Book of the Dead : The Great Liberation '' was a co-production between NHK ( Japan ), Mistral ( France ) and FBC ( Canada ). Narration in the English version is by Leonard Cohen. See links below. Screenwriter and film producer Bruce Joel Rubin, who once lived in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery, considered his film Jacob 's Ladder a modern interpretation of the Bardo Thodol. In 2007, The History Channel released a documentary film, Tibetan Book of the Dead. Country musician Sturgill Simpson 's song `` Just Let Go '' from his 2014 album Metamodern Sounds in Country Music is about ego death and the transition between living and dying, and being reborn. In 1994, the Modern Rock band Live had a second album, Throwing Copper. On which, track 9, a song titled `` T.B.D. '' ( 4 : 28 ) stands for Tibetan Book of the Dead. In 1996, Delerium Records released the Liberation Thru ' Hearing CD which contains spoken / chanted readings from the Bardo Thodol set to music. Enter the Void, a 2009 French film written and directed by Gaspar Noé, is loosely based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. The Beatles song Tomorrow Never Knows contains lyrics inspired by The Tibetan Book of the Dead. See also Ego death Six realms Reality in Buddhism Notes Jump up ^ zab - chos zhi khro dgongs pa rang grol, also known as kar - gling zhi - khro Jump up ^ In Tibetan, bar do thos grol, thos grol chen mo, and thos grol Jump up ^ See also Trikaya, Kosha and Three Bodies Doctrine ( Vedanta ) Jump up ^ `` The Tibetan book of the Dead is an important document that has stood the test of time and attempts to provide answers to one of mankind 's greatest questions : What happens when we die ? Interviews with Tibetan Lamas, American scholars, and practicing Buddhists bring this powerful and mysterious text to life. State - of - the - art computer generated graphics will recreabinte this mysterious and exotic world. Follow the dramatized journey of a soul from death... to re-birth. In Tibet, the `` art of dying '' is nothing less than the art of living. '' References ^ Jump up to : Fremantle 2001, p. 20. ^ Jump up to : Norbu 1989, p. ix. Jump up ^ Coleman 2005. ^ Jump up to : Valdez 2014, p. 166, note 122. Jump up ^ Fremantle 2001, p. 21. Jump up ^ Evans - Wentz 1960, p. liv. Jump up ^ Fremantle, Fremantle & Trungpa 2003, p. xi. Jump up ^ Forbes & Henley 2013. ^ Jump up to : Norbu 1989, p. xii. Jump up ^ Reynolds 1989, p. 71 - 115. Jump up ^ Lopez 2011, p. 127. Jump up ^ Evans - Wentz 1960. ^ Jump up to : Reynolds 1989, p. 71. Jump up ^ Reynolds 1989, p. 72 -- 73, 78. Jump up ^ Reynolds 1989, p. 78. Jump up ^ Paul van der Velde Jump up ^ Reynolds 1989, p. 110. Jump up ^ Merkur 2014, p. 221. ^ Jump up to : Gould 2007, p. 218. Jump up ^ Leary, Metzner & Alpert 1964, p. 11. Jump up ^ Gould 2007, p. 218 - 219. Jump up ^ Leary, Metzner & Albert 1964, p. 12. Jump up ^ `` Information on Bardo Thödol in Finnish ''. Jump up ^ Hartl, John ( 1990 - 11 - 01 ). `` Adrian Lyne Met A Metaphysical Challenge ''. The Seattle Times. Retrieved 2010 - 02 - 06. Jump up ^ Golden, Tim ( 1990 - 10 - 28 ). `` FILM ; Up ' Jacob 's Ladder ' And Into the Hell Of a Veteran 's Psyche ''. The New York Times. Retrieved 2007 - 10 - 22. Jump up ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXdbvBzxeb8 Sources Printed sources Coleman, Graham ( 2005 ), `` Editor 's introduction '', in Coleman, Graham, The Tibetan Book of the Dead : First Complete Translation, Penguin Books, ISBN 978 - 0143104940 Conners, Peter ( 2013 ), White Hand Society : The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg, City Lights Books Cuevas, Bryan J. The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. New York : Oxford University Press, 2003. Evans - Wentz, W.Y., ed. ( 1960 ) ( 1927 ), The Tibetan Book of the Dead ( PDF ) ( 1957 1st ( ebook translation ) ed. ), Oxford University Press Forbes, Andrew ; Henley, David, eds. ( 2013 ), The Illustrated Tibetan Book of the Dead, Chiang Mai : Cognoscenti Books Fremantle, Francesca ; Trungpa, Chögyam, eds. ( 1975 ), The Tibetan Book of the Dead : The Great Liberation through Hearing in the Bardo by Guru Rinpoche according to Karma Lingpa, Boulder : Shambhala, ISBN 1 - 59030 - 059 - 9 Fremantle, Francesca ( 2001 ), Luminous Emptiness : understanding the Tibetan Book of the dead, Boston, MA : Shambhala Publications, ISBN 1 - 57062 - 450 - X Gould, Jonathan ( 2007 ), Ca n't Buy Me Love : The Beatles, Britain, and America, Crown Publishing Group Leary, Timothy ; Metzner, Ralph ; Alpert, Richard ( 1964 ), THE PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE. A manual based on THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD ( PDF ) Lee, Martin A. ; Shlain, Bruce ( 1992 ), Acid Dreams : The Complete Social History of LSD : the CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond, Grove Press Lopez, Donald S., Jr. ( 2011 ), The Tibetan book of the dead : a biography, Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ISBN 978 - 0691134352 Merkur, Daniel ( 2014 ), The Formation of Hippie Spirituality : 1. Union with God. In : J. Harold Ellens ( ed. ), `` Seeking the Sacred with Psychoactive Substances : Chemical Paths to Spirituality and to God '', ABC - CLIO Miles, barry ( 1998 ), Many Years From Now, Vintage Norbu, Namkhai ( 1989 ), `` Foreword '', in Reynolds, John Myrdin, Self - liberation through seeing with naked awareness, Station Hill Press, Inc. Reynolds, John Myrdin ( 1989 ), `` Appendix I : The views on Dzogchen of W.Y. Evans - Wentz and C.G. Jung '', in Reynolds, John Myrdin, Self - liberation through seeing with naked awareness, Station Hill Press, Inc. Valdez, Juan ( 2014 ), The Snow Cone Diaries : A Philosopher 's Guide to the Information Age, AuthorHouse Web - sources ^ Jump up to : The History Channel : Tibetan Book of the Dead Archived October 17, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. Jump up ^ friendsoflive.com Jump up ^ http://www.delerium.co.uk/bands/liberation/index.html Jump up ^ Stephenson, Hunter ( 2010 - 09 - 14 ). `` Gaspar Noé 's Big Trip ''. Interview. Archived from the original on 16 September 2010. Retrieved 2010 - 09 - 15. Further reading Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche ( 1991 ) The Bardo Guidebook Rangjung Yeshe Publications 1991. Cuevas, Bryan J. ( 2003 ) The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. New York : Oxford University Press. Fremantle, Francesca ( 2001 ). Luminous Emptiness : understanding the Tibetan Book of the dead. Boston, MA : Shambhala Publications ISBN 1 - 57062 - 450 - X Griffin, Mark ( 2008 ) The Bardo Thodol -- A Golden Opportunity. Los Angeles : HardLight Publishing. ISBN 978 - 0975902028 Lati Rinpochay & Hopkins, Jeffrey ( 1985 ) Death, Intermediate State and Rebirth, Ithaca : Snow Lion Lodo, Lama ( 1987 ) Bardo Teachings. Ithaca : Snow Lion Mullin, Glenn H. ( 1986 ) Death and Dying : the Tibetan Tradition Penguin - Arkana ISBN 0 - 14 - 019013 - 9 Sögyal Rinpoche, with Gaffney, Patrick & Harvey, Andrew ( eds. ) ( 1992 ) The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. San Francisco : Harper ISBN 0 - 06 - 250793 - 1 External links History article Bardo Thodol -- The Tibetan Book of the Dead -- Public Domain PDF ebook The Tibetan Book of the Dead : A Way of Life -- First part of a documentary filmed in Ladakh by NHK, Mistral and CFB The Tibetan Book of the Dead : The Great Liberation -- Second part of a documentary filmed in Ladakh by NHK, Mistral and CFB `` The Life, Death and Rebirth of The Tibetan Book of the Dead '', Donald S. 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Question: in tibetan buddhism what term describes an intermediate or transition state
Answer: bar do