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  • When a member of the temple is dying, Benkong pays a visit and chants sutras to help them move from one life to the next, a transition known as the Bardo state, which lasts for forty-nine days.

    The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011

  • In late 2006, Munir and several business partners, one of whom was a Buddhist, had opened a gay bar and restaurant called Bardo.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • In late 2006, Munir and several business partners, one of whom was a Buddhist, had opened a gay bar and restaurant called Bardo.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • When a member of the temple is dying, Benkong pays a visit and chants sutras to help them move from one life to the next, a transition known as the Bardo state, which lasts for forty-nine days.

    The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011

  • There still stand the "Bardo" or Palace of the "Bey" or King of Tunis, and the "kasbah" or castle in which the Tunisian pirates of old days used to imprison the Christians whom they captured at sea; and there is still the old slave market where they used to sell them.

    Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell of Gilwell 1899

  • (In Tibetan Buddhism, the word "Bardo" means an "in-between" or "transitional" state, an appropriate name for a character who has just lost his job and his home, and is halfway between life and death, halfway in and halfway out of the car's windshield.)

    Bright Lights After Dark 2009

  • Since the sideways timeline was a Chonyid Bardo or Purgatory-like afterlife where “there is no now,” it means that back on the island, “everything that happened, happened,” and the time-traveling castaways were the cause of the incident that necessitated the construction of the Swan and the hatch and the button in the first place.

    Top 10 Questions Lost Didn’t Answer » Scene-Stealers 2010

  • You cannot tell me that the New Testament is scripture but the Bardo Thodol and the Sutras are not.

    On Same-Sex Couples and Catfish Derbies 2009

  • You cannot tell me that the New Testament is scripture but the Bardo Thodol and the Sutras are not.

    On Same-Sex Couples and Catfish Derbies 2009

  • Known for her work with Kate Hudson and Maggie Gyllenhaal, celebrity stylist Britt Bardo has collaborated with mark. on a three-piece capsule collection.

    Fashion Forward: Blanchett is bright in Armani's Black Lace makeup 2010

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