
His Holiness the Dalai Lama: If ignorance is eliminated, then the contaminated actions that depend on it are stopped. .
Death, Intermediate State and Rebirth by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Death
Through the afflictions of desire, hatred and ignorance, contaminated karma (actions) are performed, which establish potencies in the mind in the form of predispositions. When a lifetime finishes, a person who has such predispositions is born again in cyclic existence with a mind and body appropriated through these contaminated causes. Continue reading