Reading Selection discussed after meditation practice

We are reading mind beyond death by Dzogchen Ponlop who "is known is known as one of the finest Tibetan teachers of his generation, and he is considered to be as well versed in the psychology of his Western students as he is in the dharma. The bardos, or intermediate states, are popularly understood to be realms between death and rebirth. ...he explains the bardos of life as well, and how an understanding of all six bardos is an essential guide in the present as well as the hereafter." --Tricycle

Additional resources on this topic

• Bokar Rinpoche, Death and the Art of Dying in Tibetan Buddhism

• Chögyam Trungpa, Transcending Madness: The Experience of the Six Bardos, The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa.

• Dzogchen Ponlop, Mind Beyond Death (Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 2006),.

• Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, revised and updated edition (Harper San Francisco, 2002), Ch. 14-15.

• Tsele Natsok Rangdrol, Mirror of Mindfulness: The Cycle of the Four Bardos, translated by Erik Pema Kunsang (Boston & Shaftesbury: Shambhala, 1989).

• Tulku Thondup, Enlightened Journey—Buddhist Practice as Daily Life, edited by Harold Talbott (Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1995).

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