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[Book II]
[THE SIDPA BARDO]
THIS IS KNOWN AS THE GOOD HEAD-PART OF THAT CALLED ‘THE PROFOUND. ESSENCE OF THE LIBERATION BY HEARING’—THE REMINDER, THE CLEAR SETTING-FACE-TO-FACE IN THE INTERMEDIATE STATE WHEN SEEKING REBIRTH[1]
- ↑ Text: SRID-PA BAR-DOHI NGO-SPRÖD GSAL-HDEBS THÖS-GROL ZHES-BYA-VA ZAB-PAHI NYING-KHU ZHES-BYA-VAHI DVU-PHYOGS LEGS (pronounced: SID-PA BAR-DOI NGO-TÖD SAL-DEB THÖ-DOL SHAY-CHA-WA ZAB-PAI NYING-KHU SHAY-CHA-WAI U-CHÖ LAY).
In the Block-Print, the Bardo Thödol being divided into two distinctly separate books—whereas in our MS. Book II is an unbroken continuation of Book I—the first four folios of its second book contain—unlike our MS.—a summary of the introductory parts of the first book; and the title of Book II of the Block-Print is as follows: Bar-do Thös-grol Chen-mo Las Srid-pa Bar-dohi Ngo-Spröd Bzhugs-so (pronounced: Bar-do Thö-dol Chen-mo Lay Sid-pa Bar-doi Ngo-Töd Zhu-so), which means, ‘Herein Lieth the Setting-Face-to-Face in the Intermediate State of [or when seeking] Worldly Existence (i.e. Rebirth), from “The Great Liberation by Hearing on the After-Death Plane”’.
