Morte e Utopia no "Livro Tibetano dos Mortos". Da contemplação da impermanência à vida pós-morte e à descoberta da imortalidade

Abstract

Our aim is to equate the idea of utopia, as a "no-place" that is a "place of felicity", with the experience of death and after-death in the Tibetar Book of the Dead and its concrete instructions on how to turn that experience into a way of awakening in the state of Buddha. If in Hinayana and Mahayana death appears as a particular aspect of universal impermanence, which can lead to renouncing wordly life and bring about the feeling of the urgency of spiritual practice, Vajrayana puts a special emphasis on the possibility of being enlightened and a Buddha while still alive or, if not, along the several phases of the intermediary state between death and rebirth. The basic idea, anyway, brought from meditative experience, is that of the non-created primordial nature of mind, which is alien to life and death, being the nature of Buddha itself.