
Buddhist Funeral Advice in the Tibetan Tradition
Buddhists believe that consciousness survives physical death and, following an interval (bardo), rebirth will usually take place. If we are not prepared, death can be a confusing and terrifying experience.
With preparation, it can be an opportunity for attaining higher rebirth or even enlightenment, so we offer this information, which includes practical arrangements as well as spiritual care, in the hope that it will help as many people as possible during this special time.
For further information or advice on arranging a Buddhist funeral:
སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་བདེ་བ་དང་བདེ་བའི་རྒྱུ་དང་ལྡན་པར་གྱུར་ཅིག།
སྡུག་བསྔལ་དང་སྡུག་བསྔལ་གྱི་རྒྱུ་དང་བྲལ་བར་གྱུར་ཅིག།
སྡུག་བསྔལ་མེད་པའི་བདེ་བ་དམ་པ་དང་མི་འབྲལ་བར་གྱུར་ཅིག།
ཉེ་རིང་ཆགས་སྡང་གཉིས་དང་བྲལ་བའི་བཏང་སྙོམས་ཆེན་པོ་ལ་གནས་པར་གྱུར་ཅིག།
May all beings be happy and create the causes of happiness.
May they all be free from suffering and from creating the causes of suffering.
May they attain that sacred happiness which can never be tainted by suffering.
May they attain universal, impartial compassion, free of worldly bias towards friends and enemies.
