![]() ![]() Why would a Christian or Muslim, with very different beliefs, experience death the same way as a Buddhist? Carl Becker writes: “. Most teachers say that cultural differences and personal idiosyncrasies generate a variety of experiences. Only a few teachers assert that the journey is universal. Not Everyone Goes Through the Bardos the Same Way According to the Tibetan teachings, there are three death bardos: the painful bardo of dying, the luminous bardo of dharmata, and the karmic bardo of becoming. ![]() This Tibetan word “Bardo” is translated as “gap, interval, intermediate state, transitional process, or in between” and usually refers to the gap between lives. The central orienting view in the Tibetan tradition of “thanatology” (the study of death and dying) is that of the bardos. ![]()
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