Bardo - from The Hundred Verses of Advice

I don't know much about Tibetan Buddhism, so this is a little note on Bardo:

"...Your consciousness will leave your body and wander in the bardo. There, with an illusory mental body, you will find yourself alone in the shadows, lost and desperate, not knowing what to do, not knowing where to go. The hallucinations that torment most beings at that time are terrifying beyond description. Although they are no more than projections of the mind, they nevertheless have a powerful reality at the time...."

"...The only possible source of comfort will be ...the Dharma...."

(Dilgo Khyentse & Padampa Sangye, The Hundred Verses of Advice", page 60 - 61)

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Well, Bardo is not taught in Theravada Buddhism, nor in the Thai Forest Tradition ajahns. But it does sound like wandering spirits immediately after death. Perhaps everybody will experience this state between one life and the next, perhaps not. Perhaps beings pass on to the next life directly. I think it all depends on kamma.