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The 'painful' '''[[bardo]] of dying''' (Skt. ''mumūrṣāntarābhava''; [[Wyl.]] '' 'chi kha gnad gcod kyi bar do'') — one of the [[four bardos|four]] or [[six bardos]]. Teachings on the bardo of dying usually contain the instructions for [[phowa]] practice.

=='Root Verse' for the Bardo of Dying by [[Padmasambhava]]<ref>Extracted from ''bar do rnam pa drug gi rtsa thig bzhug so'', which pertains to the cycle of the [[Bardo Thödrol Chenmo]]. Translation by [[Sogyal Rinpoche]], see ''[[The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying]]'', page 227.</ref>==
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<big>༈ ཀྱེ་མ་བདག་ལ་འཆི་ཁ་བར་དོ་འཆར་དུས་འདིར༔

ཀུན་ལ་ཆགས་སེམས་ཞེན་འཛིན་སྤངས་བྱས་ལ༔

གདམས་ངག་གསལ་བའི་ལམ་ལ་མ་གཡེང་འཇུག༔

རང་རིག་སྐྱེ་མེད་ནམ་མཁའི་དབྱིངས་སུ་འཕང༔

འདུས་བྱས་ཤ་ཁྲག་ལུས་དང་བྲལ་ལ་ཁད༔

མི་རྟག་སྒྱུ་མ་ཡིན་པར་ཤེས་པར་བྱ༔</big>

Now when the bardo of dying dawns upon me,

I will abandon all grasping, yearning, and attachment,

Enter undistracted into clear awareness of the 
teaching,

And eject my consciousness into the space of unborn 
[[rigpa]];

As I leave this compound body of flesh and blood

I will know it to be a transitory illusion.

==Alternative Translations==
*bardo of death

==Notes==
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==Teachings Given to the Rigpa Sangha==
*[[Sogyal Rinpoche]], [[Lerab Ling]], 22-24 August 2010
*[[Sogyal Rinpoche]], London, 30-31 October 2010
*[[Sogyal Rinpoche]], San Diego, 30 November-4 December 2010
*[[Sogyal Rinpoche]], Paris, 18-19 December 2010
*[[Sogyal Rinpoche]], Myall Lakes, Australia, 17 & 20 January 2011

==Further Reading==
*[[Chögyam Trungpa]], ''Transcending Madness: The Experience of the Six Bardos'', The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa, Volume Six, Ch.6 'The Bardo of Death'.
*[[Dzogchen Ponlop]], ''Mind Beyond Death'' (Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 2006), Ch.5 'Evaporating Reality: The Painful Bardo of Dying'.
*[[Sogyal Rinpoche]], ''[[The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying]]'', revised and updated edition (Harper San Francisco, 2002), Ch. 14-15.
*[[Tsele Natsok Rangdrol]], ''Mirror of Mindfulness: The Cycle of the Four Bardos'', translated by [[Erik Pema Kunsang]] (Boston & Shaftesbury: Shambhala, 1989), Ch.2 'The Painful Bardo of Dying'.
*[[Tulku Thondup]], ''Enlightened Journey—Buddhist Practice as Daily Life'', edited by Harold Talbott (Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1995), pages 55-62.

[[Category:Bardos]]