(updated 9/6/2010)

Tibetan Book of The Dead...

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In the 8th century, Padma Sambhava authored this guide, also known as The Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Intermediate State, or Bardo Thodol. This guide "is read aloud to the dead while they are in the state between death and reincarnation in order for them to recognize the nature of their mind and attain liberation from the cycle of rebirth".

"The Bardo Thodol teaches that once awareness is freed from the body, it creates its own reality as one would experience in a dream. This dream occurs in various phases (bardos) in ways both wonderful and terrifying. Overwhelming peaceful and wrathful visions and deities appear. Since the deceased's awareness is in confusion of no longer being connected to a physical body, it needs help and guidance in order that enlightenment and liberation occurs. The Bardo Thodol teaches how we can attain Nirvana by recognizing the heavenly realms instead of entering into the lower realms where the cycle of birth and rebirth continue."

To learn more, these quotes can be found at their original Internet location http://www.near-death.com/experiences/buddhism01.html.

From the videos below... "Seeking the Truth, and practicing compassion - that is the way life becomes meaningful."

In the gospel of Mary Magdelene (that didn't make the King James version of the Bible), similar concepts can be found, though it is very likely the ideas pre-date her experiences also.

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