bardo

bardo meaning in Sanskrit and Vietnamese

Examples of bardo in a sentence

• As a consequence of premature decease, the "Bardo," is prolongated.1863, Emil Schlagintweit, “Details Characteristic of the Religion of the People”, in Buddhism in Tibet: Illustrated by Literary Documents...
• Even the Bardo Thodol mentions the direct path only once, and then glancingly, confining itself solely to a description of the soul's circuitous afterlife journey through the heaven-worlds.1996, Victoria LePage, “The Perfection of the Shortest Path”, in Shambhala: The Fascinating Truth behind the Myth of Shangri-La, 1st Quest...
• I was born in the fifties in a nation suspended in the bardo state between a war a decade over and the hellsmoke light of a new war pulling in the East.1998, Susanne Paolo, “Prologue”, in Bardo (The Brittingham Prize in Poetry), Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page xiii:
• Some writers have suggested the near-death experience expresses the stages of the dissolution process in the bardo of dying.2013, Sogyal Rinpoche, “The Near-Death Experience”, in Lee W. Bailey, Jenny Yates, editors, The Near-Death Experience: A Reader, Routledge...

Synonyms of bardo

• antarābhava

Forms of bardo

Origin of bardo

Borrowed from Tibetan བར་དོ (bar do), from བར (bar, “interval”) + དོ (do, “two”), in the sense of an interval between two states.

Words that rhyme with bardo

• vardo

Questions about bardo

What does bardo mean?

Bardo means the state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation.

What is bardo in Sanskrit?

Bardo in Sanskrit is अन्तराभव (antarābhava). See Bardo meaning in Sanskrit.

How do you use bardo in a sentence?

As a consequence of premature decease, the "Bardo," is prolongated.

What part of speech is bardo?

Bardo can be a noun or a proper noun.

How do you pronounce bardo?

Bardo is pronounced /ˈbɑːdəʊ/ (UK).

What is the plural of bardo?

The plural of bardo is bardos.