Laurie Anderson reads from the Bardo Thodol, the Tibetan “Book of the Dead,” against a backdrop of flute, piano and percussion on “Lotus Born, No Need to Fear.” The track will appear on Songs From the ...

Often described as a guide for the soul after death, the Tibetan Book of the Dead is the Western name for a section of the Bardo Thodol, a Tibetan Buddhist funerary text. Traditionally read aloud to ...

Below, Ann Tashi Slater shares five key insights from her new book, Traveling in Bardo: The Art of Living in an Impermanent World. Traveling in Bardo interweaves explorations of impermanence in our ...

One of the questions which a great many religions of the world address is: What happens when we die? Shakespeare’s Claudio in “Measure for Measure” bemoans the uncertainty of that question, saying ...

Lama Jabb (Oxford University) will deliver the keynote lecture for the Lotsawa Translation Workshop on “An Act of Bardo: Translating Tibetan Poetry” at 11am on Saturday, October 6, 2018 in the British ...

Laurie Anderson and Jesse Paris Smith support Tibetan artist Tenzin Choegyal on “Jigten,” the final track from the trio’s upcoming collaboration Songs From the Bardo. On the track, Choegyal sings text ...

The Bardo is a Tibetan Buddhist idea of a suspended state between life and death. Saunders explored the concept in his 2017 novel, Lincoln in the... George Saunders' 'Vigil' is a brief and bumpy ...