1) Tibetan Buddhist practice 
Phowa (Tibetan: འཕོ་བ་; Wylie: `pho ba; also spelled Powa or Poa phonetically; Sanskrit: saṃkrānti) is a Vajrayāna Buddhist meditation practice. It may be described as `the practice of conscious dying`, `transference of consciousness at the time of death`, `mindstream transference`, or `enlightenment without meditation” ...