5/28/2023 0 Comments The luminous deadcultural vicissitude is present anytime teachings migrate from an ancient and foreign culture into a modern one. While the Tibetans have breathtaking resources that easily translate from their tradition into our own, modern Tibetan masters admit to instances of cultural insularity and peculiarity. The issue of universal truth vs. the heavens, judgments, and ghostly scenarios described by other religious traditions have equal claims to validity the afterlife is culturally relative insofar as its imagery is projected by the perceiver, and the perceiver has been conditioned by the culture in which he was educated.” Why would a Christian or Muslim, with very different beliefs, experience death the same way as a Buddhist? Carl Becker writes: “. Most teachers say that cultural differences and personal idiosyncrasies generate a variety of experiences. Only a few teachers assert that the journey is universal. Not Everyone Goes Through the Bardos the Same Way According to the Tibetan teachings, there are three death bardos: the painful bardo of dying, the luminous bardo of dharmata, and the karmic bardo of becoming. This Tibetan word “Bardo” is translated as “gap, interval, intermediate state, transitional process, or in between” and usually refers to the gap between lives. The central orienting view in the Tibetan tradition of “thanatology” (the study of death and dying) is that of the bardos.
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