Context: According to East Asian and Tibetan Buddhism, there is an intermediate state (Tibetan "bardo") between one life and the next. The orthodox Theravada position rejects this; however there are passages in the Samyutta Nikaya of the Pali Canon that seem to lend support to the idea that the Buddha taught of an intermediate stage between one life and the next.[page needed]

Question: There is a transitional state between one life and the next according to what branches of Buddhism?
Answer: East Asian and Tibetan

Question: What branch of Buddhism rejects that there is a transitional state between lives?
Answer: Theravada

Question: Passages in what teaching support the idea that the Buddha taught of a stage between lives?
Answer: Samyutta Nikaya of the Pali Canon

Question: What is the state called between lives?
Answer: bardo

Question: Which major part of Buddhism rejects bardo?
Answer: Theravada

Question: What book discusses bardo?
Answer: Samyutta Nikaya

Question: Other than Tibetan Buddhism, what other Buddhism supports bardo?
Answer: East Asian

Question: There is an intermediate state between one life and the next according to what Buddism?
Answer: East Asian and Tibetan

Question: What type of Theravada rejects the intermediate state idea?
Answer: orthodox

Question: Some passages of what Canon support the idea of intermediate stages?
Answer: Pali