![]() ![]() According to Tibetan tradition, after death and before one's next birth, when one's consciousness is not connected with a physical body, one experiences a variety of phenomena. Used without qualification, "bardo" is the state of existence intermediate between two lives on earth. In Tibetan Buddhism, bardo is the central theme of the Bardo Thodol (literally Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State), the Tibetan Book of the Dead, a text intended to both guide the recently deceased person through the death bardo to gain a better rebirth and also to help their loved ones with the grieving process. Later Buddhism expanded the bardo concept to six or more states of consciousness covering every stage of life and death. The concept of antarābhava, an intervening state between death and rebirth, was brought into Buddhism from the Vedic- Upanishadic (later Hindu) philosophical tradition. The concept arose soon after Gautama Buddha's death, with a number of earlier Buddhist schools accepting the existence of such an intermediate state, while other schools rejected it. ![]() In some schools of Buddhism, bardo ( Classical Tibetan: བར་དོ་ Wylie: bar do) or antarābhava ( Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese: 中有, romanized in Chinese as zhōng yǒu and in Japanese as chū'u) is an intermediate, transitional, or liminal state between death and rebirth. Some Tibetan Buddhists hold that when a being goes through the intermediate state, they will have visions of various deities. Tibetan illustration of the Peaceful and Wrathful Deities of the post-mortem intermediate state ( bardo). For other uses, see Bardo (disambiguation). ![]()
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