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In Sanskrit the concept has the name antarabhāva. It is a concept which arose soon after the Buddha's passing, with a number of earlier Buddhist groups accepting the existence of such an intermediate state, while other schools rejected it.  \nThe Six Bardos-What is a Bardo?  \nUsed loosely, the term \"bardo\" refers to the state of existence intermediate between two lives on earth. According to Tibetan tradition, after death and before one's next birth, when one's consciousness is not connected with a physical body, one experiences a variety of phenomena. These usually follow a particular sequence of degeneration from, just after death, the clearest experiences of reality of which one is spiritually capable, and then proceeding to terrifying hallucinations that arise from the impulses of one's previous unskillful actions. For the prepared and appropriately trained individuals the bardo offers a state of great opportunity for liberation, since transcendental insight may arise with the direct experience of reality, while for others it can become a place of danger as the karmically created hallucinations can impel one into a less than desirable rebirth.  \nThe Six Bardos-What is a Bardo?  \nThe term bardo can also be used metaphorically to describe times when our usual way of life becomes suspended, as, for example, during a period of illness or during a meditation retreat. Such times can prove fruitful for spiritual progress because external constraints diminish. However, they can also present challenges because our less skillful impulses may come to the foreground.  \nThe Six Bardos  \n• Franseca Fremantle states that there are six traditional bardo states known as the Six Bardos: the Bardo of This Life; the Bardo of Meditation; the Bardo of Dream; the Bardo of Dying; the Bardo of Dharmata; and the Bardo of Existence.  \n• The first bardo begins when we take birth and endures as long as we live. The second is the bardo of dreams. The third is the bardo of concentration or meditation. The fourth occurs at the moment of death. The fifth is known as the bardo of the luminosity of the true nature. The sixth is called the bardo of transmigration or karmic becoming.  \nThe Six Bardos  \n• Kyenay bardo (skye gnas bar do): is the first bardo of birth and life. This bardo commences from conception until the last breath, when the mindstream withdraws from the body.  \n• Milam bardo (rmi lam bar do): is the second bardo of the dream state. The Milam Bardo is a subset of the first Bardo. Dream Yoga develops practices to integrate the dream state into Buddhist sadhana.  \n• Samten bardo (bsam gtan bar do) is the third bardo of meditation. This bardo is generally only experienced by meditators, though individuals may have spontaneous experience of it. Samten Bardo is a subset of the Shinay Bardo.  \n• Chikhai bardo ('chi kha'i bar do): is the fourth bardo of the moment of death. According to tradition, this bardo is held to commence when the outer and inner signs presage that the onset of death is nigh, and continues  \nthrough the dissolution or transmutation of the Mahabhuta until the external and internal breath has completed.  \nThe Six Bardos  \n• Chönyi bardo (chos nyid bar do): is the fifth bardo of the luminosity of the true nature which commences after the final 'inner breath' (Sanskrit: prana, vayu ; Tibetan: rlung) . It is within this Bardo that visions and auditory phenomena occur. In the Dzogchen teachings, these are known as the spontaneously manifesting Thödgal (Tibetan: thod-rgyal) visions. Concomitant to these visions, there is a wel","cbCaiuR9vTVTeCt3","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuR9vTVTeCt3","pdf",2446262,25,"English","# The Six Bardos - What is a Bardo?\n## Intermediate state after death\n## Metaphorical bardos in daily life\n# The Six Bardos\n## The bardo of this life\n## The bardo of meditation\n## The bardo of dream\n## The bardo of dying\n## The bardo of dharmata (true nature)\n## The bardo of existence (transmigration)\n# The Tibetan Book of the Dead","[{\"question\":\"What does “bardo” mean in Tibetan Buddhism?\",\"answer\":\"“Bardo” refers to an intermediate state, literally an “in-between” condition. 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