<P> Bardo thosgroll (Tibetan: བར ་ དོ ་ ཐོས ་ གྲོལ, Wylie: bar do thos grol): </P> <Ul> <Li> bar do, Sanskrit antarabhāva: "intermediate state", "transitional state", "in - between state", "liminal state". Valdez: "Used loosely, the term "bardo" refers to the state of existence intermediate between two lives on earth ." Valdez: "(The) concept arose soon after the Buddha's passing, with a number of earlier Buddhist groups accepting the existence of such an intermediate state, while other schools rejected it ." </Li> <Li> thos grol: "liberation", which is synonymous with the Sanskrit word bodhi, "awakening", "understanding", "enlightenment", and synonymous with the term nirvana, "blowing out", "extinction", "the extinction of illusion". </Li> </Ul> <Li> bar do, Sanskrit antarabhāva: "intermediate state", "transitional state", "in - between state", "liminal state". Valdez: "Used loosely, the term "bardo" refers to the state of existence intermediate between two lives on earth ." Valdez: "(The) concept arose soon after the Buddha's passing, with a number of earlier Buddhist groups accepting the existence of such an intermediate state, while other schools rejected it ." </Li> <Li> thos grol: "liberation", which is synonymous with the Sanskrit word bodhi, "awakening", "understanding", "enlightenment", and synonymous with the term nirvana, "blowing out", "extinction", "the extinction of illusion". </Li>

In tibetan buddhism what term describes an intermediate or transition state