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Between Worlds (Epilogue)


Maitreya the Conqueror » by Nicholas Roerich)


I read the The Tibetan Book of the Dead twice. I started with a French translation, and then read the Robert A. F. Thurman version. My motivation back then was to learn more about the death process and

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Determination (Between Worlds part 5)


Akshobhya Buddha » by VanemTao)


The last section of « Between Worlds » is entitled « Determination » and is intended to depict the intermediate state of rebirth, known as the « sidpa bardo, » the bardo of karmic becoming or transmigration.

Accordin

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Deliberation (Between Worlds part 4)


The Dhyani Buddha Akshobhya » - Unknown Artist)


« The Dance Of The Archetypes » culminates with an encounter with the Lord Of Death, a fearsome demonic deity appearing in smoke and fire, who subjects the dead to a judgment based on the karma accum

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Dance of the Lord of Death » by Jean-Marie Hullot)


« Dissolution » is a very short section which represents the moment of physical death itself. It corresponds to the first « between world, » or first bardo :

The first bardo comes at the very momen
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Departure (Between Worlds part 1)


Buddha painted on a rock wall in Tibet » by Unknown Artist - photography by onwardtibet.org)


« Between Worlds » is a suite in five movements that started as a song entitled « Requiem » which was written in response to the deaths of my father and m

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