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Bardo Thodol
Sign in to saveAlso known as Tibetan Book of the Dead, Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State, Bar do thos grol, Bardo Thödröl
Nyingma terma text revealed by Karma Lingpa
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Key facts
- Tibetan
- བར་དོ་ཐོས་གྲོལ་
- Wylie
- bar do thos grol
- Thl
- Bardo Thödröl
- Lhasa ipa
- Tibetan pronunciation: [ pʰaː˩˨.ˌtʰo.tʰø˥˥.ˈʈʰ~ʈʂʰøː ]
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Buddhist text
- Religion
- Buddhism
- Genre
- terma
- Main subject
- bardo
- Image
- BardoThodolChenmo.jpg
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- Commons category
- Bardo Thödol
- title
- བར་དོ་ཐོས་གྲོལ།
- located in the religious territorial entity
- Tibetan Buddhism
- facet of
- reincarnation
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Encyclopedic overview
Manuscript of the Bardo Thodol.
The Bardo Thodol (Tibetan: བར་དོ་ཐོས་གྲོལ, Wylie: bar do thos grol, 'Liberation through hearing during the intermediate state'), commonly known in the West as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, is a terma text from a larger corpus of teachings, the Profound Dharma of Self-Liberation through the Intention of the Peaceful and Wrathful Ones, revealed by Karma Lingpa (1326–1386). It is the best-known work of Nyingma literature. In 1927, the text was one of the first examples of both Tibetan and Vajrayana literature to be translated into a European language and arguably continues to this day to be the best known.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bardo Thodol” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.