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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]].
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.


==Alternative Translations==
==Alternative Translations==

Revision as of 19:38, 12 December 2010

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

Alternative Translations

  • bardo of death

Teachings Given to the Rigpa Sangha

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.