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What Is the Chinvat Bridge?

What Is the Chinvat Bridge?

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The span that widens for the just and thins to a blade for the liar, where the soul meets its own conscience.

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The Chinvat Bridge (Avestan činuuatō pərətu-, the "Bridge of the Separator") is the crossing every Zoroastrian soul reaches at the dawn after the third night of death.

Imported citation, not independently checked: Yasna 46:10-11, 51:13; Hadhokht Nask 2

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The Gathas name the bridge but do not describe its mechanics; the vivid picture comes from later Avestan and Pahlavi texts.

Imported citation, not independently checked: Gathas; Bundahishn; Menog-i Khrad

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According to the Hadhokht Nask, an old Avestan fragment preserving the eschatology, the soul lingers three nights by the body, and at the dawn after the third night a wind brings it a figure.

Imported citation, not independently checked: Hadhokht Nask 2

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The New Testament has a final judgment but no bridge.

Imported citation, not independently checked: New Testament; N. Cohn, Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come

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