Samye Ling Visual Guide
Information about the various parts of Samye LingThoughts are like a monkey. If a monkey is too active and you put it in a cage, it doesn't matter if it's a golden cage, the monkey will never appreciate it.
When a Buddhist Dies, for nurses
Information for nurses caring for a Mahayana/Vajrayana Buddhist at the end of their life
The following is based on the Buddhist belief that consciousness continues after the body dies. The first 3 days following death are considered to be particularly important, whereby the subtle process of the mind disengaging from the body is taking place. This advice describes ideal circumstances which must be balanced against what is practical at the time.
We would be grateful if you could bear the following points in mind:
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to arrange for prayers to be said if death is known to be close, or as soon as possible after death. The ideal is to have prayers done at the bedside since Buddhists believe that it's possible to help the deceased by maintaining a tranquil and compassionate environment around them.
Please leave the body undisturbed for at least 4 hours.
We understand that a doctor has to touch the body to certify death, but request that the nurses delay laying out the body for as long as is practical. Only the minimum should be done.
Once prayers are done, the body can be laid out and moved. Paper mandalas or a blanket may be supplied by the Buddhist centre and placed on the body at this point (and later on the coffin).
If a post-mortem is required, please ask for it to be postponed for 3½ days.
Where there is no family to organise a funeral, please inform social services that the undertaker should just lift the body into the coffin and that if possible, there should be no embalming. Cremation should not take place before 3½ days have elapsed.
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