The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (346 page)

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Baramon-s
j
(Indian Buddhist monk)
:
Barbarossa
(German King)
:
Barclay, Robert
(exponent of Quaker beliefs)
:
Bardaisan
or Bardesanes of Edessa
(154–222).
Christian speculative thinker, by the 4th cent. classed as a heretic. His Syriac
Book of the Laws of Countries
is a more or less orthodox treatment of fate.
Bardo
(Skt.,
antarabh
va
, ‘intermediate state’). In
Tibetan
Buddhism, the state after death and before rebirth. A distinction is made, however, in the
Nyingma
,
Kagyü
, and
Sakya
traditions (which follow the
Tibetan Book of the Dead
) between six bardos, three of life and three of death. The subject experiencing these bardos is not an unchanging soul (which concept does not exist in Buddhism) but the constantly changing continuum of consciousness which, according to spiritual advancement, becomes either sharpened or bewildered after disjunction from the body.

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