This vivid personal account of a journey through the "bardos" and "pure realms" was recorded by 16-year-old Dawa Drolma of Eastern Tibet, a renowned female lama and a "delog"-one who crosses the threshold of death and returns to tell about it. What she saw during her five days of travel through other realms engendered in her a limitless compassion for sentient beings.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Tibetan
Original Language: Tibetan
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Dawa Drolma, one of the great Vajrayana Buddhist lamas of the century and mother of Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, lived in Kham in Eastern Tibet. At the age of 16 she fell ill and died, but returned to her body after five days and lived into her 30's. For the benefit of others she recorded every detail of her experiences in the bardo and pure realms. Her daughter, T'hrinlay Wangmo, preserved the diary until 1987, when Chagdud Rinpoche brought it out of Chinese-occupied Tibet to be published in the West.
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It was a revelation to me to read the details of the many hells that the Tibetan Buddhist tradition believes in. The horrors described by the 16 year old Delog (a person who "dies" and returns to life after about 5 days) in the afterlife make Dante's hell a beach. The rest of her life is spent exhorting others to behave well lest they end up in one of these hells. Crimes include, in addition to what you'd expect - murder, theft - "wrong" thinking, rudeness to a Lama, killing an animal without the need to do so, not sharing one's meal with a visitor...for all these one gets an after-life of torture unending. Don't read it before bedtime!
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As a child in Tibet, I sometimes found my mother, Delog Dawa Drolma, surrounded by an audience listening with utmost attention as she told of her journeys to other realms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tare mantras, immeasurable mansion, mani mantra, boiling molten metal, feminine bodhisattvas, supremely compassionate, preta realms, pristine awareness, ordinary human world, root lama, exalted goddess, grant your blessings, taken rebirth, intrinsic awareness, pure realm, vajra holder, cyclic existence, supreme compassion, bloodthirsty demons, mani padme, victorious ones, afflictive emotions, many lamas, fasting ritual, pure view Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dawa Drolma, White Tara, Mountain of Glory, Potala Mountain, Yama Dharmaraja, Realm of Bliss, Supremely Compassionate One, Khakyod Wangpo, Land of Snows, Awa the Ox-Headed, Reviving Hell, Sutra of Liberation, Tromge Kundun Rinpoche, Tromge Trungpa, Stainless Confession Tantra, Dza Konchhog, Mount Sumeru, Realm of Supreme Bliss, Seven-Line Supplication, Dechhen Dorje, Dzaga Chhogtrul Rinpoche, Jamyang Khyentsei Wangpo, Laykyi Wangmochhe, Sherab Dronma, Yeshe Tsogyal New!
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As a child in Tibet, I sometimes found my mother, Delog Dawa Drolma, surrounded by an audience listening with utmost attention as she told of her journeys to other realms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tare mantras, immeasurable mansion, mani mantra, boiling molten metal, feminine bodhisattvas, supremely compassionate, preta realms, pristine awareness, ordinary human world, root lama, exalted goddess, grant your blessings, taken rebirth, intrinsic awareness, pure realm, vajra holder, cyclic existence, supreme compassion, bloodthirsty demons, mani padme, victorious ones, afflictive emotions, many lamas, fasting ritual, pure view Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dawa Drolma, White Tara, Mountain of Glory, Potala Mountain, Yama Dharmaraja, Realm of Bliss, Supremely Compassionate One, Khakyod Wangpo, Land of Snows, Awa the Ox-Headed, Reviving Hell, Sutra of Liberation, Tromge Kundun Rinpoche, Tromge Trungpa, Stainless Confession Tantra, Dza Konchhog, Mount Sumeru, Realm of Supreme Bliss, Seven-Line Supplication, Dechhen Dorje, Dzaga Chhogtrul Rinpoche, Jamyang Khyentsei Wangpo, Laykyi Wangmochhe, Sherab Dronma, Yeshe Tsogyal New!
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- The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa: The Life-Story and Teaching of the Greatest Poet-Saint Ever to Appear in the History of Buddhism by Garma C.C. Chang in Back Matter
- The Words of My Perfect Teacher, Revised Edition (Sacred Literature Series) by Patrul Rinpoche in Back Matter
- The Wish-Fulfilling Jewel by Dilgo Khyentse in Back Matter
- The Jewel Ornament of Liberation (Clear Light Series) by sGam.po.pa in Back Matter
- Dakini's Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism by Judith Simmer-Brown in Back Matter
- Living, Dreaming, Dying: Wisdom for Everyday Life from the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Rob Nairn in Back Matter
- Innovative Buddhist Women: Swimming Against the Stream (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism) by Karma Lekshe Tsomo in Back Matter
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