EXPLORING THE NOTION OF DEATH AS AN INTERMEDIATE PHASE: A JUNGIAN ANALYSIS

Psychology

In Buddhism, spaces and places have their own life energy. In Chinese it is called “Chi”, the Tibetans, call it “Lung” and in Hinduism it is, “Virya”. A space has the ability to provide us with abundance of life and sacred energy and also on other continuum this very space can become a confined prison. This paper is an attempt to understand the notion of death as in intermediate phase through the Jungian interpretation of the Tibetan myth, Tiyu: Earth Prison. As consciousness passes from one stage to the next in the after life, it is this transition that fosters realization. The myth brings to light the process of transformation.

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