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Passages similar to: The Tibetan Book of the Dead — Book I: Instructions on the Symptoms of Death, or the First Stage of the Chikhai Bardo: The Primary Clear Light Seen at the Moment of Death
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The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: Instructions on the Symptoms of Death, or the First Stage of the Chikhai Bardo: The Primary Clear Light Seen at the Moment of Death (1.10)
If the expiration is about to cease, turn the dying one over on the right side, which posture is called the 'Lying Posture of a Lion'. The throbbing of the arteries [on the right and left side of the throat] is to be pressed.
Bundahishn
Chapter IV (1)
This also is said, that when the primeval ox passed away it fell to the right hand, and Gâyômard afterwards, when he passed away, to the left hand.
Katha Upanishad
Sixth Vallī (116)
Moving upwards by it, a man (at his death) reaches the Immortal; the other arteries serve for departing in different directions.'...