Zab chos zhi khro dgongs pa rang grol

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Zab chos zhi khro dgongs pa rang grol (ཟབ་ཆོས་ཞི་ཁྲོ་དགོངས་པ་རང་གྲོལ་; "Profound Dharma of Self-liberation through the Intention of the Peaceful and Wrathful Ones". Also known as kar gling zhi khro (ཀར་གླིང་ཞི་ཁྲོ་; "Karma Lingpa's Peaceful and Wrathful Ones"). A cycle of terma teachings revealed in the fourteenth century by the great tertön Karma Lingpa. This cycle includes the famous Bardo Thodol (the so-called "Tibetan Book of the Dead").

Francesca Fremantle states:

The overall name given to the whole terma cycle is Profound Dharma of Self-liberation through the Intention of the Peaceful and Wrathful Ones, and it is popularly known as Karma Lingpa’s Peaceful and Wrathful Ones. It has been handed down through the centuries in several versions containing varying numbers of sections and subsections, arranged in different orders, ranging from around ten to thirty-eight titles. These individual texts cover a wide range of subjects, including the dzogchen view, meditation instructions, visualizations of deities, liturgies and prayers, lists of mantras, descriptions of the signs of death, and indications of future rebirth, as well as those that are actually concerned with the after-death state.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead as we know it in English consists of two comparatively long texts on the bardo of dharmata (including the bardo of dying) and the bardo of existence... They are called Great Liberation through Hearing: The Supplication of the Bardo of Dharmata and Great Liberation through Hearing: The Supplication Pointing Out the Bardo of Existence. Within the texts themselves, the two combined are referred to as Liberation through Hearing in the Bardo, Great Liberation through Hearing, or just Liberation through Hearing.[1]

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Notes

  1. ↑ Fremantle 2001, Chapter One.

Sources

  • Fremantle, Francesca (2001), Luminous Emptiness: Understanding the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Boston: Shambhala Publications 

Further reading

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