Ultraculture: Here’s a Comic Book Guide to the Tibetan Buddhist Afterlife

http://ultraculture.org/blog/2015/04/09/tibetan-buddhist-afterlife-bardo-comix/

Ultraculture: Here’s a Comic Book Guide to the Tibetan Buddhist Afterlife

by Jason Louv

This brilliant comic explains the Bardo, the intermediary period between life and death, and what Tibetan Buddhists think happens to you after death

According to Tibetan Buddhists, the bardo is the intermediary stage between death and rebirth—where a soul who has just left its body experiences a hyper-vsoul ivid “virtual reality” where its life flashes before its eyes, and it gets to witness first-hand the karma it has accumulated during that lifetime. The Nyingma school of Tibet teaches that this period lasts 49 days, during which time the just-passed individual must come to grips with the life they’ve just lived and prepare for the next one, which will be determined not only by their prior karma but by their actions in the bardo.