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It consisted largely of mortuary rituals, concerned especially with a period called the bardo or "intermediate state."
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jr. Donald S. Lopez 2012
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There is a ‘bardo’ world where our souls go between here and the oversoul home.
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Your daughter appears to have instinctively created a bardo world for your father.
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This bardo state is a common concept in the Buddhist community.
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The bardo world is a great place for your daughter to meet her grandpa any time she wants to be creative.
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After their deaths they meet in the bardo and discuss their experiences before being reincarnated into another time.
Divided States Of America Part I [Review: The Years Of Rice And Salt] Sci-Fi Gene 2010
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After their deaths they meet in the bardo and discuss their experiences before being reincarnated into another time.
Archive 2010-06-01 Sci-Fi Gene 2010
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I also like reincarnation themes and here it really holds the book together as well as being a lot of fun in itself - it seems even the bardo is not immune to politics and power struggles!
Divided States Of America Part I [Review: The Years Of Rice And Salt] Sci-Fi Gene 2010
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In its place, you've entered the realm of "meltdown," that bardo space which has to do with difficult transition.
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We now know that the entire series of Lost takes place in the flickering moments between Jack Shephard opening his eye in the bamboo forest and closing it in the last scene of the finale, when all of the passengers are suspended in the bardo, the intermediate state between life and death.
Michael Carmichael: The End of Lost : Death, Dharma & the Dao 2010
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They were sort of cynical; they were stuck in this realm, called the bardo (from the Tibetan notion of a sort of transitional purgatory between rebirths), stuck because they’d been unhappy or unsatisfied in life.
George Saunders: what writers really do when they write George Saunders 2017
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In Tibetan Buddhism, there is a concept called bardo, which is a state of existence between death and rebirth—“like a moment when you step toward the edge of a precipice,” as a famous Buddhist teacher puts it.
Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think Arthur C. Brooks 2022
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The intermediate or astral state of the soul after death and before rebirth. (From WWFTD)
June 7, 2008