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PeterDuffy (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The text of the '''Bardo Thodol''', usually translated in English as '''Tibetan Book of the Dead''', is one of the scriptures of the Nyingma, or Red Hat, school of Buddhism founded by the great Indian Guru and Buddha Padma Sambhava. The foundational teaching on the deadliness of the five poisons presented side by side with the saving power of the Five Dhyani Buddhas is principally expressed the Tibetan Book of the Dead. == Purpose of the book == Although t...") |
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If you do not, it will not help you on your death bed or in the hereafter. | If you do not, it will not help you on your death bed or in the hereafter. | ||
<blockquote>It is one of the oldest and most universal practices for the initiate to go through the experience of [the] death [of the old man] before he can be spiritually reborn [as the new man]. Symbolically he must die to his past, and to his old ego, before he can take his place in the new spiritual life into which he has been initiated.<ref>Lama Ahagarika Govinda, Introductory Foreword, in W. Y. Evans-Wentz, ''The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Or The After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, according to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup’s English Rendering'' (Oxford University Press, | <blockquote>It is one of the oldest and most universal practices for the initiate to go through the experience of [the] death [of the old man] before he can be spiritually reborn [as the new man]. Symbolically he must die to his past, and to his old ego, before he can take his place in the new spiritual life into which he has been initiated.<ref>Lama Ahagarika Govinda, Introductory Foreword, in W. Y. Evans-Wentz, ''The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Or The After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, according to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup’s English Rendering'' (Oxford University Press, 1960).</ref></blockquote> | ||
The Tibetan Book of the Dead stresses that the training it presents is | The Tibetan Book of the Dead stresses that the training it presents is | ||