As I read Living the Questions for my other graduate class, "Teacher as Researcher," I am fascinated to find descriptions of the research process that resonate with the concept of bardo.   I see this when the authors (Hubbard/Power) talk of "mining tensions," defining tension as "both an act of stretching and a state of uneasy suspense."  They go on to state that "Each definition of tension applies to teaching and research. ...[with] the best research questions....a taut spot between two points."  This place of uneasy suspense is, I think, bardo, where the desire and the need for a solution comes and the opportunity for new insights. 

The book also contains descriptions from teachers about their research process; in one of them titled, "What's Coming Apart So It Can Come Back Together?" by Ruth Shagoury, a poem by Mckeel McBride is used to describe how tensions in the classroom can be the beginning of valuable research.  The poem, "Inspirations Anatomy" ends with "It is one of the conditions of inspiration that things must/come apart before they can be put back together."   Ah...I see the state of bardo again described, that place of being in the unknown, the uncertainty that is needed for the creative solution to emerge.