Bardo of dying
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Bardo of dying (T. rang bzhin skye ba'i bar do འཆི་ཁའི་བར་དོ་). The period from the onset of the process of dying until the end of the three subtle dissolution stages.[1] According to the Dzogchen tradition, this is one of the four or six bardo states.
Erik Pema Kunsang states:
- After being born, growing up, leading a life, and maybe growing old, the body dies but not the mind. For a certain period the consciousness undergoes a separation from the embodied state and enters a state totally without solid grounding. That is the second intermediate state, the painful bardo of dying.[2]
Tsele Natsok Rangdrol states:
- The painful bardo of dying is the whole period from the time one is afflicted by the sickness that will cause one's death, whatever it may be, until the true luminosity of dharmata [the bardo of dharmata] has arisen.[3]
Tsele Natsok Rangdrol also states that "the general dharma systems teach that the manifestation of this luminosity is included within the bardo of dying."[3] The Dzogchen teachings describe these stages (the dying process and the arising of luminousity) as separate bardo states.[3]
Notes
- ↑
འཆི་ཁའི་བར་དོ་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
- ↑ Tsele Natsok Rangdrol 1987, Translators Preface.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Tsele Natsok Rangdrol 1987, Chapter 2.
Sources
- Fremantle, Francesca (2001), Luminous Emptiness: Understanding the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Shambala Publications
- Tsele Natsok Rangdrol (1987), The Mirror of Mindfulness, translated by Pema Kunsang, Erik, Rangjung Yeshe Publications