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The bardo of dying (Skt. mumūrṣāntarābhava; Tib. འཆི་ཁ་གནད་གཅོད་ཀྱི་བར་དོ་, chikha né chö kyi bardo, Wyl. 'chi kha gnad gcod kyi bar do) or more literally 'the bardo of the ceasing of the vital elements at the moment of death' — 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 Tödrol Chenmo]]. Translation by [[Sogyal Rinpoche]], see ''[[The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying]]'', page 227.</ref>
Tibetan
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Tibetan may additionally refer to:
<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
- painful bardo of dying
Notes
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Teachings Given to the Rigpa Sangha
- Sogyal Rinpoche, Lerab Ling, France, 22-24 August 2010
- Sogyal Rinpoche, London, U.K., 30-31 October 2010
- Sogyal Rinpoche, San Diego, U.S.A., 30 November-4 December 2010
- Sogyal Rinpoche, Paris, France, 18-19 December 2010
- Sogyal Rinpoche, Myall Lakes, Australia, 17 & 20 January 2011
- Sogyal Rinpoche, Haileybury Retreat, U.K., 14-20 April 2014
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.