- artist:Tashi Lhunpo Monks
- release year:2010
- style(s):Tibetan, Traditional
- country:India
- formats:CD (Compact Disc)
- record posted by:30 iPS
- label:30 iPS
- publisher:30 iPS
Time of the Skeleton Lords is the fourth album from the monks of Tashi Lhunpo Monastery and their second release as a joint venture between 30 IPS and the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery UK Trust, following 2008’s Dawn Till Dusk. The new album was recorded on location in Bylakuppe, southern India, and features sacred Tibetan prayers and music marking the great cycle of life, death and rebirth – the journey of the consciousness through the Bardo, according to Tibetan Buddhist traditions.
At death, Buddhism, along with many ancient Indian philosophical schools of thought, asserts the idea of a continuity of being once the physical death has occurred. The Bardo is an intermediate period between death and rebirth, during which the effects of causality and karma accumulated in previous lives influence the direction of the future rebirth. The journey of the consciousness through the Bardo may last an instant, or for as long as forty-nine days, after which one must find a place of rebirth.