西藏度亡经
度亡经(藏语:བར་དོ་ཐོས་གྲོལ,威利转写:bar do thos grol,THL:bardo thödröl(巴多脱卓)),即《西藏度亡经》,又译为《中阴得度法》或《中阴救度密法》、《中阴闻教救度大法》,此书是伏藏,在14世纪时被发掘。由宁玛派伏藏师事业洲(Karma Gling-pa, 1376-1394)所取出的莲花生大士岩藏法《寂静忿怒密意自解脱》自称是作者为八世纪印度高僧莲花生大师留下来的伏藏密书,该书依照佛教义理介绍了人离世后处于中有阶段的演变情形。该阶段最长49天,然后开始下一期生命。有人认为此书参杂苯教观念,和佛教论典的“中有”教义不符[1]。
亡者的心识将幻化文武百尊,为寂静本尊相四十二尊,忿怒本尊相五十八尊。以强烈光体显现,根据莲花生所说,只要亡者在中阴时期辨识出文武百尊中任何一尊,当下即可融入本尊光体中,获得解脱。
如果有正确方法的引导,灵魂在此期间可以得到解脱、出离轮回。所以中阴救度的意义非常重要,这也是本书在一千多年来备受重视的原因。
该书由西藏喇嘛达瓦桑杜及其美国弟子温慈博士编译为英文,于1927年出版后引起国际影响。心理学家卡尔·荣格对此书进行评述,称之为他的“随身伴侣”。
本书由中华民国学者徐进夫于1982年译成中文出版,北京宗教文化出版社于1995年在大陆出版简体字版本。
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延伸阅读
- Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche (1991) The Bardo Guidebook Rangjung Yeshe Publications 1991.
- Cuevas, Bryan J. (2003) The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Fremantle, Francesca (2001). Luminous Emptiness: understanding the Tibetan Book of the dead. Boston, MA: Shambhala Publications ISBN 1-57062-450-X
- Griffin, Mark (2008) The Bardo Thodol – A Golden Opportunity. Los Angeles: HardLight Publishing. ISBN 978-0975902028
- Lati Rinpochay & Hopkins, Jeffrey (1985) Death, Intermediate State and Rebirth, Ithaca: Snow Lion
- Lodo, Lama (1987) Bardo Teachings. Ithaca: Snow Lion
- Mullin, Glenn H. (1986) Death and Dying: the Tibetan Tradition Penguin-Arkana ISBN 0-14-019013-9
- Sögyal Rinpoche, with Gaffney, Patrick & Harvey, Andrew (eds.) (1992) The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. San Francisco: Harper ISBN 0-06-250793-1
参见
- 沃尔特·叶林·埃文斯-温兹(Walter Evans-Wentz)
外部连接
- History article (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
- Bardo Thodol – The Tibetan Book of the Dead – Public Domain PDF ebook (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
- The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Way of Life – First part of a documentary filmed in Ladakh by NHK, Mistral and CFB
- The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation – Second part of a documentary filmed in Ladakh by NHK, Mistral and CFB
- "The Life, Death and Rebirth of The Tibetan Book of the Dead" (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), Donald S. Lopez Jr., Berfrois(页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), 13 April 2011