The Tibetan Book of the Dead, or
Bardo Thodol ("The Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Intermediate State") is traditionally believed to be the work of the legendary Padma Sambhava in the 8th century ACE.
The book acts as a guide for the dying during the state that intervenes death and the next rebirth.
[NOTE: Rebirth is instantaneous and without intermission. But the post-human rebirth as a subtle body being is here being mistaken for an "immortal soul" that survives death. In this simplified view, the radically impermanent and impersonal "person" (gandhabba, Five Aggregate combination) is judged. That is, some karma conditions the rebirth-linking consciousness. One then "enters" another relatively long-term existence in one of the six realms of the Sensual Sphere described by Mahayana as if that sphere were an exhaustive description of Buddhist cosmology's Three Spheres and 31 Planes of Existence.]
Padma Sambhava is considered to be one of the first persons to bring Buddhism to Tibet. The Bardo Thodol is a guide that is read aloud to the dead while they are in the state between death and rebirth in order for them to recognize the nature of their mind and attain liberation from the cycle of rebirth.
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Bardo Thodol teaches that once awareness is freed from the body, it creates its own reality as one would experience in a dream. This dream occurs in various phases (
bardos) in ways both wonderful and terrifying.
Overwhelmingly peaceful and
wrathful visions and deities [spirits with the power of transformation] appear. Since the deceased’s awareness is in confusion of no longer being connected to its former gross physical body, it needs help and guidance in order that enlightenment and liberation may occur.
The Bardo Thodol teaches how we can attain nirvana by recognizing the heavenly realms [lower deva realms of the Sensual Sphere] instead of entering into the lower realms where the cycle of birth and rebirth continue.
The following is a description of the bardo realms that one travels through [or envisions traveling through] after death.
The First Bardo
The first bardo comes at the very moment of death, when there dawns the Clear Light of the Ultimate Reality [as conceived of in Brahmanism and Hinduism and apparently borrowed into this shamanistic description]. This is the very content and substance of the state of liberation, if only the "soul" [ego, personality, stream-of-conscious clung to as an identity or persisting "self"] can recognize it and act in a way to remain in that state.
The instructions intended to be read at the moment of the person’s death are designed to help the person do this. One is told, first of all, to embrace this supreme experience not in a selfish and egoistic way but rather with love and compassion for all sentient beings. This will aid in the second step, which is to realize that mind and self is identical with the Clear Light, implying that one IS the Ultimate Reality [
Brahman], "the All-good Buddha," transcending time, eternity, and all creation.
If one can recognize this while in this supreme state at the moment of death, one will attain liberation -- that is, one will remain in the Clear Light forever. [It is amazing that all of this Brahmanistic teaching went unquestioned by Mahayana Buddhists.] This condition is called the "Dharmakaya" [Dharma-body], the highest spiritual body of the Buddha.
Most "
souls," however, will fail to do this. They will be pulled down by the weight of their karma into the second stage of the first
bardo, called the Secondary Clear Light seen immediately after death. At this point, there are separate instructions to be read according to the spiritual condition of the person while in life.
For an individual advanced in meditation and other spiritual practices, there is repeated over and over the same instructions as at the moment of death, enjoining one to recognize oneself as the Dharmakaya. For a person who was still at a student-level on the spiritual path, there is the injunction to meditate on one's "tutelary deity," that is, the particular [manifestation of] god for whom one performed devotional practices while alive.
Finally, "if the deceased be of the common folk," unpracticed in any spiritual disciplines, the instruction is to "meditate upon the Great Compassionate Lord," which is to say an "avatar" [incarnation of God] worshiped by the multitude, equivalent to Jesus [St. Issa] as conceived of by the average Christian.
The Second Bardo
If the "soul" is still not "liberated" [if one imagines that the Buddha taught nothing higher than Vedic Brahmanism] at this stage, it will descend into the second
bardo, which is said to last for two weeks.
The second bardo is also divided into two parts. In the first, the "soul" of the deceased encounters what are referred to as "the Peaceful Deities." On each of the seven days, a particular Buddha-being will appear in radiance and glory, with a bevy of angelic attendants. [These descriptions do not stray very far from Hinduism.]
At the same time, on each day in turn there will shine a light from one of the six worlds of the [Sensual Sphere in the] Buddhist universe, called lokas (basically meaning "place" since our English words "location" and "locale" are derived from the same Sanskrit root).
On the first day of the second
bardo, there appears to the "soul" the divine Father-Mother -- that is, the supreme deity of the universe, transcending all dualities, including the division into sexes. [This is what the Buddha, speaking to brahmins, would refer to as Brahma or Maha Brahma, any of the divinities superior to the Sensual Sphere
devas ("shining ones").
The next step in the destiny of the "soul" is determined by one's reaction to this God. If one's life on Earth was well lived, one will now be in a state [referred to by Hindus, brahmins, or Christians as one] of purity and grace, and one will enter into the joy of the God and attain liberation [moksha to modern Hindus and ancient brahmins].
If on the other hand one has lived an ignoble and impious life, the effects of his bad karma will cause the intense radiant presence of the God to strike fear and terror in one's heart, and one will be drawn instead to the softer light of the Deva-Loka, or [lesser] "Angelic World," which has dawned along with this deity.
This is still a fairly attractive fate, for the Devas are the Gods (or angels), and their lokla is equivalent to the Christian heaven; however, the Buddhist teaching is that even heaven is not the highest spiritual objective, because it is still only a temporary state in the manifest universe.
Liberation is believed to be the only final and permanent resting-place for the "soul," an un-manifest state beyond all [31 general planes of] existence.
On the second day, there appears the second-highest God in the Buddhist pantheon [Buddhist pantheon?] In fact, he is actually the Second Person in the literal Buddhist Holy Trinity [Buddhist Holy Trinity? That is another Vedic Brahminical and later Hindu conception, borrowed by Catholicism].
At the same time, there dawns a smoky light from hell. And here we note that, just as the Buddhist heaven is not a permanent, eternal state, neither [are] its hell[s].
Even the most wretched "souls" will eventually work their way out of even the deepest pit of hell, just as even the highest and purest "souls" will eventually lose their footing in heaven and descend again into the cycle of death and rebirth.
[Actually these states are well within the cycle and are in no way outside of it unless the Sensual Sphere is regarded as the entire "world."]
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He migrated to Asia with a merchant caravan along the Silk Road to
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The Bardo Thodol teaches that once awareness is freed from the body, it creates its own reality as one would experience in a dream. This dream occurs in various phases (bardos) in ways both wonderful and terrifying.
If one can recognize this while in this supreme state at the moment of death, one will attain liberation -- that is, one will remain in the Clear Light forever. [It is amazing that all of this Brahmanistic teaching went unquestioned by Mahayana Buddhists.] This condition is called the "Dharmakaya" [Dharma-body], the highest spiritual body of the Buddha.
If the "soul" is still not "liberated" [if one imagines that the Buddha taught nothing higher than Vedic Brahmanism] at this stage, it will descend into the second bardo, which is said to last for two weeks.
On the first day of the second bardo, there appears to the "soul" the divine Father-Mother -- that is, the supreme deity of the universe, transcending all dualities, including the division into sexes. [This is what the Buddha, speaking to brahmins, would refer to as Brahma or Maha Brahma, any of the divinities superior to the Sensual Sphere devas ("shining ones").
On the second day, there appears the second-highest God in the Buddhist pantheon [Buddhist pantheon?] In fact, he is actually the Second Person in the literal Buddhist Holy Trinity [Buddhist Holy Trinity? That is another Vedic Brahminical and later Hindu conception, borrowed by Catholicism].
The "lost" (from the Bible) years were spent in Ladakh, India as a Buddhist, holy man, and teacher (tslpl.org).
Gruber and Kersten (1995) claim that Buddhism had a substantial influence on the life and teachings of Jesus.
Jesus' travels in northern India (reluctant-messenger.com) 
Jewish Jesus learning the pre-Hindu Vedas -- which so influenced Judaism -- in India from brahmin priests (tslpl.com).
Nicolas Notovitch found documentation of Jesus' life in India in the Buddhist monastery of Hemis Gompa. There the Jewish radical was known as Saint Issa, "Best of the Sons of Men." He published the information in French in 1894 as La vie inconnue de Jesus Christ. It was then translated into English, German, Spanish, and Italian. Notovitch's account of how he discovered the work is that he had been laid up with a broken leg at the monastery. There he convinced the chief lama, who had told him of the existence of the work, to read to him through an interpreter. He thereby heard the detached verses of the Tibetan version of the "Life of Issa," which was said to have been translated from the exclusively Buddhist language Pali. Notovitch says he later grouped the verses "in accordance with the requirements of the narrative." As published by Notovitch, the work consists of 244 short paragraphs, arranged in fourteen chapters. More
Sakka is an iteration St. Michael the Archangel, whose name means "Who is like God," is one of the principal messengers of Maha Brahma. In Catholicism he is the patron saint of paratroopers, police, and mariners (artclon.com).
Sakka, "chief of the angels" (Devanam Indo), lord of lords, king of kings, an "angel" who tossed the "demons" out of heaven, is one of the most prominent supernatural figures in Buddhism. (He has an entire subdivision of sutras related to him known as the Sakka Samyutta).
In Catholicism he is known as Saint Michael the Archangel. This entry from the Catholic Encyclopedia comes to us via the devoted blog Saint Michael's Warrior. Our purpose in presenting this connection is to show that world religions have far more in common and are easily used to unwholesome ends than the elements that differentiate them.
The traditional calendar of saints includes Saint "Josaphat" or "Iodasaph," son of a fourth-century king of India. A convert to Christianity, Iodasaph abdicated the throne to embrace a life of ascetic piety. As scholars now widely acknowledge, what was once taken to be the biography of a Christian saint is instead the accidental Christianization of a story of Prince Siddhartha from the Jataka Tales. The legend of "Iodasaph," a garbled form of "Bodhisattva," meandered over various Buddhist, Manichean, and Arabic paths on its way to being baptized as a piece of medieval Christian hagiography. In various texts, the name appears as "Budhasaf," "Bodisav," and "Bwdysdf" -- all even closer to the original. So there you have it: Gautama Buddha, a Catholic saint! More
St. Michael is one of the principal angels; his name was the war-cry of the good angels in the battle fought in heaven against the enemy and his followers. Four times his name is recorded in Scripture:
They say he was the cherub who stood at the gate of paradise, "to keep the way of the tree of life" (Genesis 3:24), the angel through whom God published the Decalogue to his chosen people, the angelwho stood in the way against Balaam (Numbers 22:22 sqq.), the angel who routed the army of Sennacherib (2 Kings 19:35).
Regarding his rank in the celestial hierarchy opinions vary; St. Basil (Hom. de angelis) and other Greek Fathers, also Salmeron, Bellarmine, etc., place St. Michael over all the angels; they say he is called "archangel" because he is the prince of the other angels; others (cf. P. Bonaventura, op. cit.) believe that he is the prince of the seraphim, the first of the nine angelic orders.
Most people are no fans of the Catholic Church. So why does it matter what happened? Catholicism is the world's largest religion. Its tentacles reach everywhere. It has again been co-opted and changed to participate in a new imperial conquest -- the New World Order with a One World Bank and no dissent allowed. Newton "Newt" Gingrich is a convert.
Distrusted and disliked Pope Benedict [Arnold] is a fraud continuing a line of three anti-popes. Sadly, horribly, the previous much beloved and revered Blessed Pope John Paul II was also an anti-pope. Those child molestations did not begin with this pope.
This history of the Church is one of unimaginable corruption alongside a great deal of good. Its monastic and contemplative tradition, strong up until a few hundred years ago, was influenced by Buddhist monasticism, teachings, and Sangha traditions.
The bodhisattva (savior) ideal, a penultimate goddess of Mercy (Kwan Yin/Virgin Mary), Christmas, Santa Claus (Old St. Nick) the Scandinavian shaman with a bag of red and white magic mushrooms harvested from under pine trees, Easter and the fecundity of bunnies, the symbolism (as in the pope's scepter), altars, ceremonies, exorcisms, Egyptian iconography (particularly on Vatican grounds in the Holy See, formerly a massive temple complex dedicated to the Holy Roman Empire's previous savior god Mithra), inheriting Mithraism and calling it Christianity (exchanging Mithra for Jesus), trinity (an ancient Hindu/Vedic concept), forehead ashes, bells, costumes, bald nuns, incense, Tibetan-style pomp and ceremony.
The "Siri Thesis" is the belief that Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, the long-serving and conservative Archbishop of Genoa, was actually elected pope in the 1958 papal conclave but that his election was then suppressed.
The Virg Yin, Kwan Yin, the Goddess of Mercy who hears the Cries of the World
"What has happened to the Catholic Church?" This question has been repeatedly asked by loyal, church-going Catholics over the last 47 years.
With the accumulation of substantial and compelling documentation uncovered from public archives by investigators working for two decades, the author is endeavoring to make available to perplexed Catholics ONE explanation [besides Malachi Martin's earlier expose in The Keys of This Blood] for this generation-spanning mystery that does not contradict the faith [believed to have been] established by Jesus Christ.
It hopes to be the first presentation to cut through all the absurdities, half-truths, and outright lies that have been offered to explain away the steady and unremitting disintegration of the institution calling itself the "Catholic Church." In fact, these questions have already been explored by Malachi Martin.
Father Malachi Martin, Ph.D. affirmed: "How I warned and warned that satan would enter into the highest realms of the hierarchy in Rome. The Third Secret, My child, is that satan would enter into My Son's Church" - Our Lady of the Roses, May 13, 1978.
