Preliminary Practices
Preliminary practices (ngöndro) to purify our minds and deepen our meditation practice.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Taking refuge in the guru
How to take refuge in the guru as part of the preliminary practice (ngöndro) of…
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Preliminary practice (ngöndro) overview
An introduction to the practices that help clear and purify our minds so that we…
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Explanation of the Dorje Khadro fire offering
Visualizations of empowering deities, offering and praise, mantra explanation, and ending instructions for the Dorje…
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Instruction videos on prostrations
Instructions and demonstration on how to make prostrations.
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Purification, emptiness, and dependent arising
The third of three talks about the practice of prostrations to the 35 buddhas includes…
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Feelings that arise while doing purification
The second of three talks on the practice of prostrations to the 35 buddhas offers…
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How to do the prostration practice
The first of three talks introducing the purification practice of making prostrations to each of…
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How to do the Dorje Khadro practice
Introduction to the Dorje Khadro fire offering and a description and explanation of the practice.
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Lama Tsongkhapa’s kindness
How Je Rinpoche brought immense benefit through his teachings on emptiness and lamrim, and how…
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Khensur Wangdak Rinpoche 35 Buddhas commentary
Geshe Wangdak Khensur Rinpoche teaches on a commentary of The Bodhisattvas' Confession of Ethical Downfalls,…
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Mandala offerings
The meaning and purpose of the practice of making mandala offerings, especially in the context…
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Prostrations to the 35 Buddhas
How to do purification practice and how to visualize the 35 Buddhas.
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