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Bardo Thodol

༄༅།། བར་དོ་ཐོས་གྲོལ། bo 度亡经 zh チベット死者の書 ja

Nyingma terma text revealed by Karma Lingpa

  • Also called Tibetan Book of the Dead, Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State, Bar do thos grol

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