& so like christianity this is buddhism perceived from the distorted lense of tibetan view twisting turning genuine search for the nature of reality into another series of habituated over glorified religious &almost meaningless rituals carried over from their own earlier traditions And the fact that this happens to be more exotic eastern & therefore not european & not so different from religious rites of catholicism or the other hebrew traditions does not make this predominantly western fascination for buddhism any more autheicntic neither knowing or not directly the deathless ..
Although the Bardo Thodol is a guide to the bardo states experienced after death, it can only be read by the living. It may be read in preparation for one's own death, or at the deathbed of another. Because the weaknesses attributed to the dead are all experienced by the living as well, a person learning to traverse the bardo states of death will learn to navigate better the bardo experiences of life as well. In this sense the book is a guide to liberation across the entire cycle of human existence as conceived in Tibetan Buddhism.
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