2018/04/01 – Father Francis Tiso, PhD & John Francis – Rainbow Body and Resurrection

Tonight, we continue our Resurrection Weekend theme with the remarkable story of “the Rainbow Body and Resurrection.” My guest, Father Francis Tsio, will be relating his extraordinary quest to understand — both religiously and scientifically — the postmortem disappearance of the body of an elderly Tibetan monk, Khenpo A cho, in 1998. What is a “rainbow body?” Put simply, it is the manifestation of spiritual attainment in the dozogchen traditions of tantric Buddhism in the Himalayas, involving the literal disappearance of the body after death! Some have compared this attainment with the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, hoping to answer the question: not only did Jesus rise from the dead … but how did Jesus rise from the dead? And, yes, we will also be talking once again about the Shroud …. Adding to our discussion will be “The Other Side of Midnight” regular, John Francis, with his own perspectives on the nature of “the Rainbow [...]