Rocky Mountain Thrangu Center

02/18/2026

Journey of the Mind
Preparing for the Bardo in Life, Dreams, Meditation, while Dying, and Rebirth
Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche

This book is a lucid, comprehensive, and practical explanation of the bardo. It contains extensive appendices and color pictures to help anyone interested in the bardo.

The Bardo is the interval between when we die and when we are reborn. For ordinary persons the experience in the bardo is very frightening with uncontrolled streams of visions, sounds that are louder than thunder, and frightening deities and visions. For the unprepared mind these could lead to a very undesirable rebirth.

In this book Thrangu Rinpoche teaches us that while we are alive, we can prepare for this experience of dying and why this will be very beneficial to us. Rinpoche describes activities that we can do in our daily life and also our sleep and life outside of our meditation to prepare for the Bardo. If we are meditators, Rinpoche explains the meditations that are specifically beneficial for the Bardo experience.

Rinpoche also describes the nine stages of death that we go through and what we, and companions who are helping us, can do to aid us in the dying process. He then describes the visions and sounds of the bardo and how to deal with our fear and how we can make correct choices in the Bardo.

https://dharmaebooks.org/journey-of-the-mind/

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01/18/2026

A Guide to Shamatha and Vipashyana Meditation
Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche

This short book gives a clear and concise overview of how to do basic sitting meditation. Thrangu Rinpoche spent over 40 years teaching meditation and other Buddhist topics to both Western and Asian students. In this book Rinpoche explains meditation in a simple, non-technical language based on a tradition that is over 1,000-year-old that has produced many enlightened individuals.

The process of developing good meditation begins with Shamatha meditation which is to settle the mind and to gradually train it so that we can rest without becoming overly distracted by thoughts and emotions. The second step to developing good meditation is Vipashyana which is to learn how to look directly at the mind and see its true nature. When we are able to do this, we can begin to reduce our disturbing emotions and thoughts and anxieties.

Both of these meditations can be done anywhere without any special settings, implements, or empowerments. Shamatha and Vipashyana can be practiced in sitting meditation and also in the daily activities such as working, commuting, eating, explaining things. In other words, the meditation explained by Rinpoche is very useful to the modern practitioner who is very busy with family and work.

https://dharmaebooks.org/a-guide-to-shamatha-and-vipashyana-meditation/

01/16/2026

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