Bardo of becoming
The 'karmic' bardo of becoming (Skt. bhāvāntarābhava; Wyl. srid pa las kyi bar do) — one of the four or six bardos. The karmic bardo of becoming is what we generally call the Bardo or intermediate state, which starts after the bardo of dharmata and lasts right up until the moment we take on a new birth.
Sogyal Rinpoche writes:
With our failure to recognize the Ground Luminosity and our failure to recognize the bardo of dharmata, the seeds of all our habitual tendencies are activated and reawakened. The bardo of becoming spans the time between their reawakening and our entering the womb of the next life. The word sipa in sipé bardo, which is translated as "becoming," also means "possibility" and "existence." In the sipé bardo, as the mind is no longer limited and obstructed by the physical body of this world, the "possibilities" are infinite for "becoming" reborn in different realms.
