CONTENTS
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Book II
The Sidpa Bardo
The Obeisances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
155 |
Introductory Verses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
155 |
Part I
The After-Death World
The Bardo Body: Its Birth and Its Supernormal Faculties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
155 |
Characteristics of Existence in the Intermediate State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
160 |
The Judgement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
165 |
The All-Determining Influence of Thought . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
169 |
The Dawning of the Lights of the Six Lokas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
173 |
Part II
The Process of Rebirth
The Closing of the Door of the Womb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
175 |
Method of Preventing Entry into a Womb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
176 |
The First Method of Closing the Womb-Door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
176 |
The Second Method of Closing the Womb-Door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
177 |
The Third Method of Closing the Womb-Door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
178 |
The Fourth Method of Closing the Womb-Door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
180 |
The Fifth Method of Closing the Womb-Door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
181 |
The Choosing of the Womb-Door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
183 |
The Premonitory Visions of the Place of Rebirth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
183 |
The Protection against the Tormenting Furies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
185 |
The Alternative Choosing: Supernormal Birth; or Womb-Birth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
188 |
Supernormal Birth by Transference to a Paradise Realm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
189 |
Womb-Birth: the Return to the Human World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
190 |
The General Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
193 |