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The Tibetan word bardo (བར་དོ་ Wylie: bar do) means literally " intermediate state"—also translated as "transitional state" or "in-between state" or " liminal state". In Sanskrit the concept has the name antarabhāva. It is a concept which arose soon after the Buddha's passing, with a number of earlier Buddhist groups accepting the existence of such an intermediate state, while other schools rejected it.

Used loosely, the term "bardo" refers to the state of existence intermediate between two lives on earth. According to Tibetan tradition, after death and before one's next birth, when one's consciousness is not connected with a physical body, one experiences a variety of phenomena. These usually follow a particular sequence of degeneration from, just after death, the clearest experiences of reality of which one is spiritually capable, and then proceeding to terrifying hallucinations that arise from the impulses of one's previous unskillful actions. For the prepared and appropriately trained individuals the bardo offers a state of great opportunity for liberation, since transcendental insight may arise with the direct experience of reality, while for others it can become a place of danger as the karmically created hallucinations can impel one into a less than desirable rebirth.

The term bardo can also be used metaphorically to describe times when our usual way of life becomes suspended, as, for example, during a period of illness or during a meditation retreat. Such times can prove fruitful for spiritual progress because external constraints diminish. However, they can also present challenges because our less skillful impulses may come to the foreground, just as in the sidpa bardo.

Bardo (disambiguation)

Bardo is a concept of a transitional state in Buddhism.

Bardo or Bardos may also refer to:

Bardo (band)

Bardo was a male/female pop music duo ( Sally Ann Triplett and Stephen Fischer) formed to represent the United Kingdom in the 1982 Eurovision Song Contest with the song " One Step Further".

Bardo (bishop)

Bardo (c. 980 – 10/11 June 1051) was the Archbishop of Mainz from 1031 until 1051, the Abbot of Werden from 1030 until 1031, and the Abbot of Hersfeld in 1031.

Bardo was born in Oppershofen in the Wetterau. He was educated and trained at the Abbey of Fulda, where he was selected to be the deacon and provost of Neuenberg in 1018. Towards the end of March in 1029 the Emperor Conrad visited Fulda, who appointed him in the following year the Abbot of Werden. He was said to have taken special attention to the obedience of the monks and quality of their service, and he established a hospitality and care service for those injured in war. In early in 1031 Bardo was transferred to become the abbot of Hersfeld, and by May 30 was again transferred to become the Archbishop of Mainz following the death of Aribo.

As archbishop, Bardo is said to have spent much of his time in the company of the Salian Emperors. He completed the Mainz Cathedral in 1037. In 1041 he accompanied King Henry the Black on campaign against Bohemia. He consecrated the churches and chapels in the vacant sees of Germany, and he presided over the Synod of Mainz in 1049 in the presence of Henry which denounced simony and priest marriage. Bardo and Henry met again in May 1051 in Paderborn. On the return to Mainz he fell ill and died at modern Oberdorla, and was buried in Mainz Cathedral.

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Bardo (album)

Bardo is the seventh album of composer Peter Michael Hamel, released in 1981 through Kuckuck Schallplatten.

Bardo (surname)

Bardo is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Clinton L. Bardo (1868–1937), American businessman
  • Robert John Bardo, American murderer
  • Stephen Bardo, professional basketball player

Usage examples of "bardo".

Danlo continued to stare, not at Bardo, with his black beard and sad, self-pitying face, but rather through him, up at the sky.

How much longer, he wondered, would Bardo the Just allow the competition to go on?

The novices surrounding Bardo seemed to shrink back as if they too were afraid of being struck.

Then Bardo the Just rubbed his eyes, shot Danlo a curious, admiring look, and he clapped his hands.

As Danlo would learn, Bardo had chosen such an illustrious quintet to honour the petitioners.

After Danlo knocked at the door, Bardo invited Danlo inside into a room decorated with rich furniture and rare works of art.

Although Bardo had warned Danlo not to turn his head, he had said nothing of his eyes, and so Danlo knelt there locked in thought, and his eyes flicked back and forth, straining to take in sights of the room.

But he never suspected that Bardo had accompanied Mallory Ringess on this disastrous journey.

When he had finished telling Bardo that he had descried signs he would be a pilot, that it was his fate, he sat back on his heels and winced at the sharp, tearing pain beneath his kneecaps.

But, Bardo reasoned, if exceptions in custom could be made for an archaic Jew, he could certainly arrange a compromise with a wild boy who believed that a stupid white bird could hold half of his soul.

Surprisingly, however, Hanuman had been called to serve the Master of Novices himself, Bardo the Just.

Hanuman had heard that Master Bardo was not an easy man to serve, and he wondered why he had been so honoured.

Master Bardo, just as he worried over and hated the whole system of submission.

They were each almost full men, and one of them, Arpiar Pogossian, with his blocky, cultivated muscles, was almost as large as Bardo the Just, who was the largest man Danlo had ever known.

He wondered that Sherborn and others seemed to perceive the likeness of Bardo the Just near the edge of the foto.