Translation Memory:023-Tsadra-BC-Com-37 Practices-DilgoKR/114

023-Tsadra-BC-Com-37 Practices-DilgoKR/114 ID: 023-Tsadra-BC-Com-37 Practices-DilgoKR <br> Date: 18 March 2026 <br> Creator: Dawa;Gwen;Kiran <br> Origin: Tsadra Foundation

English	At present you find it hard to bear the minor discomfort of a prickly thorn or the heat of the sun. But what about the anguish you will have to face at the time of death? Dying is not like a fire going out, or like water soaking away into the earth. Consciousness continues; when you die, your consciousness has to abandon your body, accompanied only by the karmic impressions left by your previous positive and negative actions. It is then forced to wander in the different pathways of the bardo, the transitory state between death and a new existence. The bardo is a frightening, unknown place, sometimes incredibly dark and opaque, without an[p.66]The Thirty Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva (Khenpo Gawang) Gawang, Khenpo, and Gerry Wiener, trans. The Thirty Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva. Memphis, TN: Jeweled Lotus Publishing, 2010. instant of peace. During your rime in the bardo you will sometimes hear terrifying noises or see horrific things. Like a criminal taken to the execution ground, you may be pushed and pulled by messengers of Yama, the lord of death, shouting, "Kill him!" and "Bring him here!" It is not a place of comfort and ease.
RootTextVerseNum	4
SegmentFormat	Commentary
SourceSabcheNumber	4
SourceSegmentOrder	114
TranslationChapter	1
TranslationChapterSubsection	To Reflect on Impermanence, in Order to Give up the Concerns of This Life
TranslationPageNumber	65
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AuthorLabel	Tokme Zangpo 1295 - 1369
DuplicateRootTranslation	false
ShortTitle	37 Practices Padmakara 2006
SourceAuthor	People/Thogs med bzang po
SourceShortTitle	Tokme Zangpo
SourceTitleTibetan	རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ་
SourceTitleWylie	rgyal sras lag len so bdun ma
SourceWikiPage	Texts/Rgyal sras lag len so bdun ma
TranslationCitation	Ricard, Matthieu, and John Canti (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. and ed. The Heart of Compassion: Instructions on Ngulchu Thogme's Thirty-Sevenfold Practice of a Bodhisattva. By Dilgo Khyentse. New Delhi: Shechen Publications, 2006.
TranslationPublishedYear	2006
TranslationWikiPage	Books/The Heart of Compassion (Ricard 2006)
Translator	People/Padmakara Translation Group;People/Ricard, M.;People/Canti, J.
TransMemCreator	Dawa;Gwen;Kiran
TransMemDate	18 March 2026
TransMemID	023-Tsadra-BC-Com-37 Practices-DilgoKR
TransMemNum	023
TransMemOrigin	Tsadra Foundation
TransMemType	Commentary