But the Bardo Tödrol Chenmo itself is part of one large cycle of teachings handed down by the master Padmasambhava and revealed in the fourteenth century by the Tibetan visionary Karma Lingpa. Kuntuzangpo), who represents the absolute, naked, sky-like primordial purity of the nature of our mind. These teachings have a lineage stretching back beyond human masters to the Primordial Buddha (Skt. Sogyal Rinpoche writes in the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying:īardo teachings are extremely ancient, and found in what are called the Dzogchen Tantras. bar do thos grol chen mo), which means "The Great Liberation through Hearing in the Bardo", a terma discovered by Karma Lingpa at the age of fifteen on top of a mountain in Tibet.
Evans-Wentz, in imitation of the famous (and equally mistitled) Egyptian Book of the Dead. Its title was coined by its translator, the American scholar W. The Tibetan Book of the Dead was first translated into English in 1927.
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