bardo

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbɑːdəʊ/
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• General-American: /ˈbɑɹdoʊ/
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• rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)dəʊ
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• CMU ARPABET: B AA1 R D OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Tibetan བར་དོ (bar do), from བར (bar, “interval”) + དོ (do, “two”), in the sense of an interval between two states.

29 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 中有 (zhōngyǒu) — state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation
• Chinese Mandarin: 中陰 /中阴 (zhōngyīn) — state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation
• Czech: bardo — state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation
• Dutch: bardo — state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation
• Estonian: bardo — state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation
• Finnish: bardo — state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation
• French: bardo — state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation
• Galician: bardo — state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation
• German: Bardo — state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation
• Japanese: 中陰 (chūin) — state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation
• Japanese: 中蘊 (chūun) — state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation
• Japanese: 中有 (chūu) — state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation
• Korean: 바르도 (bareudo) — state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation
• Korean: 중유 (jung'yu) — state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation
• Lithuanian: bardo — state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation
• Norwegian Bokmål: bardo — state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation
• Pali: antarābhava — state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation
• Polish: bardo — state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation
• Portuguese: bardo — state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation
• Russian: бардо́ (bardó) — state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation
• Russian: ба́рдо (bárdo) — state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation
• Sanskrit: अन्तराभव (antarābhava) — state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation
• Slovak: bardo — state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation
• Spanish: bardo budista — state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation
• Swedish: bardo — state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation
• Tibetan: བར་དོ — state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation
• Tocharian A: antarābhap — state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation
• Tocharian B: antarābhav — state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation
• Vietnamese: trung hữu — state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation