The-Tibetan-Book-of-Living-and-Dying

INDEX 427Contemplation, as wisdom tool,126Creativity: and bardos, 353-56;and karma, 99-101Cremation, 312Cryonics, 384Dak dzin. See Ego (dak dzin)Dalai Lama, Fourteenth, 24, 39,54, 90, 93-95, 98-99, 113,171, 200, 356, 382; on attitudeof dying, 309, 379; asincarnation, 103, 104-5; onmoment of death, 228, 258Darkness, in near-death experience,326-27Dead, the: clairvoyance of,307-8; helping, 303-7;Tibetan Buddhist practices for,308-13Death, 11, 15, 32-33; accepting,29-31; of Buddha, 26, 363;causes of, 248-49; dedicatingour, 223-26; of DilgoKhyentse Rinpoche, 362-63;facing, 21-23, 385-92; fear of,15-16, 52-53, 213, 383; helpingafter, 303-22; of JamyangKhyentse, 272-77; life after, 6,9, 10, 87; of masters, 270-77;in modern world, 7-10; needfor learning about, 346-47;phases of, 346; peaceful,189-90; of "the poisons,"259-60; questions about,378-84; Tibetan celebrationof, 110. See also Dissolution;DyingDeath, moment of, 227-28; clearawareness at, 230-32; leavingbody at, 245-47; letting go ofattachment at, 228-30; asopportunity, 110; prayer at,240-41Deities: in bardo of dharmata,281, 284, 288; Hundred Peacefuland Wrathful, 311, 312Deity (yidam), 289-90Délok, 334-36Devotion {mö gü), 139-43Dharmakaya, 347, 352, 353, 356Dharmata (chö nyi), 278. See alsoBardo of dharmataDialogue, and unfinished business,185-87Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, 24,220, 253, 275, 276, 335, 345,370, 395-96; and cremation,312; death of, 362-64; atdeathbed, 240; on devotion,140-41; on Guru Yoga, 148,149, 153; and KhandroTsering Chödrön, 143; lifespanof, 248; on listening, 126;as master, 144-47; and momentof death, 241, 242, 244,245; on near-death experience,336; on Padmasambhava,69-71, 375; picture of, 375;on Purification of the SixRealms, 310-11; on questionsabout death, 379, 383-84; onRigpa, 163; on View, 170Discipline (tsul trim), 23Dissolution: of elements, 259-60;inner, 258; outer, 255-57;phases of, 251; process of,259-60; in rainbow body, 172Do Khyentse, 161Dodrupchen Rinpoche, 231Doubts, 126-30Drakpa Gyaltsen, 23Dream. See Bardo of sleep anddreamDudjom Rinpoche, 17, 30, 119,126, 137, 146, 242, 250, 345,366, 370; on action, 167-68,170; and cremation, 312; declarationof realization of, 45;on Dzogchen meditation, 163,164; on Guru Yoga, 148, 150;on helping dying, 215; lifespanof, 248; on meditation,64, 68, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83;