Where does “bardo” come from?

bardo (English) comes from Tibetan བར་དོ, from Tibetan བར, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r/s-ŋ(y)a.

bardo (English): The state of existence between death and...

Definitions

  1. The state of existence between death and...

Ancestry of “bardo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanབར་དོAn intermediate or inbetween state in the cycle...
2Tibetanབརinterval
3Proto-Sino-Tibetan*r/s-ŋ(y)a—
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r/s-ŋ(y)a →Every word from Tibetan བར →Every word from Tibetan བར་དོ →