Delog Journey to Realms Beyond Death. The Tibetan word Delog (DAY-loak) refers to someone who has crossed the threshold of death and returned to recount it. For Delog Dawa Drolma, a woman recognized as one of the realization holders of Vajrayana Buddhism of this century, to be a Delog meant that she came to be without any vital signs of breath, pulse, or heat for five days. During that time the link between her mind and body was released and her consciousness travelled to other realms of existence. What she saw, recounted in these pages, engendered her boundless compassion for sentient beings. She experienced the almost unimaginable contrast between the existence of the pure manifestation of enlightened mind and existence within samsaric delusion and ignorance.
“Delog’s experience is extraordinary, wonderful, even in the esoteric context of the Tibetan schools of Vajrayana Buddhism. The story of Delog Dawa Drolma has the power and urgency of direct experience, and I believe that those who read it will discover that the phenomena of these realms correspond to aspects of their own mental experiences. May its words inspire high spiritual attainment, may they guide any being who reads them into the realm of the victorious. His Holiness Chagdud Tulku
Dawa Drolma, a great lama of Vajrayana Buddhism and mother of Chadud Tulku Rinpoche, lived in Kham in Eastern Tibet. At the age of 16 she felt ill and died, but returned to her body after 5 days and lived to the age of 30. For the benefit of all she recorded every detail of her experience in the bardo and pure realms. Her daughter, T’hrinlay Wagmo, preserved this diary until 1987 when Chadud Rinpoche rescued it from Chinese occupied Tibet to be published in the West.
Author: Delog Dawa Drolma
Language: English
Publisher: Pilgrims Publishing
Binding: Soft Cover
Pages: 162
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