Dying to Live: The Role of Kamma in Dying & Rebirth is written by Aggacitta Bhikkhu. What happens after death is viewed and believed in various ways. Tibetan and Chinese Buddhists believe that after death, the deceased's spirit undergoes an intermediate period (bardo in Tibetan, Zhong yin in Mandarin) during which it undergoes a series of unearthly, extraordinary experiences, including a "small death" at the end of each week, before finally being reborn into another realm of existence. Traditional Theravada Buddhism, on the other hand, claims that rebirth occurs immediately after death, according to the earliest existing account of Gotama Buddha's teaching.
