(« 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
(« 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
(« 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
(« 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
(« 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
