Bardo States Diminished

by Jim Lynch

	/

Digital Album
Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$7 USD or more

You own this
Full Digital Discography Full Digital Discography

40

releases

Get all 40 Jim Lynch releases available on Bandcamp and save 25%.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Chaco Moon Road, Cottonwood Songs, Things of the Earth, Tanuki Was Fooled Again, Oni is Waiting, Studies for String Quartet and Bassoon, Tanuki Drank Too Much Sake, Loving the Blue Stellar, and 32 more. , and , .

Purchasable with gift card

$206.25 USD or more (25% OFF)

You own this

1.	Kyenay 05:00	info	buy track
2.	Milam 05:05	info	buy track
3.	Samten 05:06	info	buy track
4.	Chikhai 05:11	info	buy track
5.	Chönyi 05:00	info	buy track
6.	Sidpa 05:07	info	buy track
7.	Gyulü 05:11	info	buy track
8.	Tulku 05:06	info	buy track
9.	Gandharva 05:05	info	buy track
10.	Aspara 05:07	info	buy track

about

These tracks are derived and condensed, in part, from the longer works in my Bardo States and Bardo States II albums.

Used loosely, the term "bardo" refers to the state of existence intermediate between two lives on earth. According to Tibetan tradition, after death and before one's next birth, when one's consciousness is not connected with a physical body, one experiences a variety of phenomenon.

Originally, Bardo referred only to the period between one life and the next, and this is still its normal meaning when it is mentioned without any qualification. There was considerable dispute over this theory during the early centuries of Buddhism, with one side arguing that rebirth (or conception) follows immediately after death, and the other saying that there must be an interval between the two. With the rise of mahayana, belief in a transitional period prevailed. Later Buddhism expanded the whole concept to distinguish six or more similar states, covering the whole cycle of life, death, and rebirth. But it can also be interpreted as any transitional experience, any state that lies between two other states. Its original meaning, the experience of being between death and rebirth, is the prototype of the bardo experience, while the six traditional bardos show how the essential qualities of that experience are also present in other transitional periods. By refining even further the understanding of the essence of bardo, it can then be applied to every moment of existence. The present moment, the now, is a continual bardo, always suspended between the past and the future. - Luminous Emptiness. 2001. Francesca Fremantle. Boston: Shambala Publications. ISBN 1-57062-450-X

credits

released September 25, 2017

license

about

Jim Lynch New Mexico

American composer and producer of instrumental music in several genres, including ambient soundscapes, indie-tronic, orchestral, chamber and medieval. All works created using digital audio workstation software and numerous sound libraries. Influences include John Coltrane, Igor Stravinsky, Gustav Holst, Claude Debussy, Tangerine Dream, Robert Prince, Frank Zappa, Brian Eno.. ... more