NOVEMBER 14th @ 4:00pm Pacific ZOOM Livestream Ngondro Teaching: The Seven Line Prayer
with Lama Tsering Gyaltsen Rinpoche
(Note: You must be a participant of the
Vajrayana Foundation Ngondro Program to attend.)
The overall significance of the Seven-Line Prayer is perhaps best appreciated in relation to a practice called guru-yoga, or “union with the nature of the guru.” Although the importance of a spiritual teacher is spoken of at all levels of Buddhist teaching, it is in the Vajrayana especially that the finding and attendance upon a qualified master or guru is emphasized as the indispensable prerequisite for the successful implementation of the practice. The purpose of guru-yoga is to purify and deepen the disciple’s relationship with his or her teacher. It is introduced as one of the preliminary practices, and it remains crucial—in fact its importance increases—as one progresses through the more advanced levels of the tantric path. The cultivation of devotion to the guru and the blending of one’s mind with his or her enlightened mind is, in the words of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, “the most vital and necessary of all practices and is in itself the surest and fastest way to reach the goal of enlightenment.. ~ Padmakara Translation Group
Lama Tsering Gyaltsen Rinpoche, A Short Bio A lifelong Buddhist practitioner of the Dudjom Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism and a learned Buddhist scholar, Lama Tsering Gyaltsen received a Master of Arts degree in Buddhist Studies from the Tibetan Institute of Higher Studies in Varanasi, India. Lama Gyaltsen Rinpoche arrived in the USA in 1996. He is an author of one book of Tibetan history, and several publications on various Buddhist subjects. He has also assisted in the editing and translating on numerous Buddhist texts. Lama Gyaltsen Rinpoche assisted or directed the creation of the Padma Charitable Foundation, located in Corvallis, Oregon, where he serves as the founding and head Dharma teacher. He is a Founding Director and Vice-President of the Saraha Nyingma Buddhist Institute.
On the last day of the Annual Dudjom Tersar Ngondro Retreat at Pema Osel Ling, Lama Sonam Rinpoche recommended that we read and study from ngondro commentaries available, Cascading Waterfall, A Torch Lighting the Way to Freedom, Words of My Perfect Teacher and Lama Tharchin’s Ngondro Commentary.
Here is a one hour sound file from a teaching on February 2, 2014from HH Dudjom Rinpoche’s classic introduction to the Preliminary Practice of the Dudjom Lineage of Buddhism “A Torch Lighting the Way to Freedom” by Lama Tsering Gyaltsen Rinpoche at the Saraha Nyingma Buddhist Institute, Eugene, Oregon with English translation by Cy Kassoff.
This text also contains invaluable instructions on the correct view, conduct, and activity of a practitioner.
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