Hearing about and contemplating teachings on death can enhance one's understanding of impermanence and the workings of karma (cause and effect). It can reveal the profound opportunity we have during this lifetime and at the time of our death to end the cycle of suffering experienced by ourselves and others. While both dying and death are inevitable, they are often thought of as unpleasant subjects. In the Tibetan Buddhist tradition however, the teachings on death and the bardo - the intermediate state between death and rebirth - are commonly given to help us prepare for our own death and to enhance our spiritual progress. The teaching was given in August, 2004 at Karma Tekchen Zabsal Ling Dying, Death, and the Bardo, Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, Translator Peter Roberts, Karma Tekchen Zabsal Ling, 7 CDs, 8 hrs. 45 min, $40.00
Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche is a renowned Tibetan Buddhist master known for his deep compassion and the clarity of his teachings. He was selected by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to serve as the principal tutor to His Holiness the 17th Karmapa, Oryen Trinley Dorje.
Thrangu Rinpoche is a full holder and teacher of the Kagyu Vajrayana lineages. He founded the Namo Buddha retreat center in Nepal, has established two shedras (monastic universities) in Nepal and India, and serves as Abbot of Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia. He also built Tara Abbey, where nuns receive a full dharma education qualifying them to become khenpos or teachers. Thrangu Rinpoche teaches entensively throughout Asia, Europe and the United States. He has centers in Maine and California, and is building the Vajra Vidya Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado.
CD 1
Rinpoche's Arrival
Dorje Chang
Welcome and Introduction
1. Bardo of Life: Teachings
2. Bardo of Life: Empowerments
Dedication
Dorje Chang
1. The bardo of Life; insturctions that liberate, and Practice
CD 2
1. Bardo of Life (cont)
Question: Visualization of Tibetan Letters
Question: Appearance of Deities
Question: Generosity as the Paramita in the Bardo
Lung Reading Transmission for the Self-Visualization of the Peaceful and Wrathful Deities
CD 3
2. The Bardo of Dying
Dedicatioin
Dorje Chang
Refuge
Wishing Prayers
Powa Dedication
Obstacles
CD 5
Dewachen
Question: Double Dorje and Amitabha
Question: How to Visualize Amitabha
Question: Is Dreaming Similar to the Bardo
Is a Dark Room Dark Retreat at Home possible
Orientation of the HRIs
Dewachen Blanket
Dedication
CD 6
Dorje Chang
Bodhisattva Vows
3. Bardo of the True Nature
CD 7
4. The Bardo of Becoming
Concludikng Remarks and the End of the Course
Dedication
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