General
- Tibetan Root Text File PDF document
- Tibetan Commentary by Drakpa Gyaltsen File PDF document
Topic outline
Marpa House, Bouddha, 8-19 April 1991
This is the first time Rinpoche explains in great detail the aspiration prayer based on the commentary by Drakpa Gyaltsen, a student of the Lord of Refuge, Jamyang Kyentse Wangpo.
11 talks, audio
- Talk 1, 8 April 1991, Tibetan - English File Audio file (MP3)
- Talk 1, 8 April 1991, Tibetan Only File Audio file (MP3)
Up to and including prostrations.
- Talk 2, 9 April 1991, Tibetan - English File Audio file (MP3)
- Talk 2, 9 April 1991, Offerings - Tibetan Only File Audio file (MP3)
- Talk 3, 10 April 1991, Tibetan - English File Audio file (MP3)
- Talk 3, 10 April 1991, 3-7th Branch - Tibetan only File Audio file (MP3)
- Talk 4, 11 April 1991, Tibetan - English File Audio file (MP3)
- Talk 4, 11 April 1991, 1&2 Aspiration of 16, Tibetan Only File Audio file (MP3)
- Talk 5, 13 April 1991, Tibetan - English File Audio file (MP3)
- Talk 5, 13 April 1991, 3of16-, Tibetan - English File Audio file (MP3)
- Talk 6, 14 April 1991, Tibetan - English File Audio file (MP3)
- Talk 6, 14 April 1991, 7of16-, Tibetan Only File Audio file (MP3)
- Translator Preparation, 7of16- File Audio file (MP3)
- Talk 7, 15 April 1991, Tibetan - English File Audio file (MP3)
- Talk 7, 15 April 1991, 11of16-, Tibetan Only File Audio file (MP3)
- Translator Preparation, 11of16- File Audio file (MP3)
- Talk 8, 16 April 1991, Tibetan - English File Audio file (MP3)
- Talk 8, 16 April 1991, 11of16 Continued, Tibetan Only File Audio file (MP3)
- Talk 9, 17 April 1991, Tibetan - English File Audio file (MP3)
- Talk 9, 17 April 1991, Tibetan - English, Alternative Recording File Audio file (MP3)
- Talk 10, 18 April 1991, Tibetan - English File Audio file (MP3)
- Talk 10, 18 April 1991, Extent of the Aspiration, Tibetan Only File Audio file (MP3)
- Talk 11, 18 April 1991, Tibetan - English File Audio file (MP3)
Marpa House, 14-26 April 1994 - Tibetan Only
Recording of the first teaching(s) on the aspiration is missing.
- 14 April 1994, Aspiration #3of16- File Audio file (MP3)
- 15 April 1994, 7of16 File Audio file (MP3)
- 16 April 1994, 11of16- File Audio file (MP3)
- 17 April 1994, 11of16 continued File Audio file (MP3)
- 18 April 1994, 12of16- File Audio file (MP3)
- 19 April 1994, 14of16- File Audio file (MP3)
- 20 April 1994, Until the End of the Aspiration File Audio file (MP3)
- 23 April 1994, Benefits - Explanations Based on the Commentary File Audio file (MP3)
- 24 April 1994, Summary of the Aspiration File Audio file (MP3)
- 26 April 1994 - Conclusion File Audio file (MP3)
Tenerife, 2 July 1995
At the main European course in 1995, held at Tenerife, 2-15 July 1995, Rinpoche offered the following talks:
- Talk 1-2: King of Noble Aspirations, the Prayer of Excellent Conduct
- Talk 3: a general introduction to the booklet, Ten Songs of the Provisional and Definitive Meaning
- Talk 4: Five Perfections of the Definitive Meaning
- Talk 5-7: Three Kinds of Confidence in Genuine Reality
- Talk 8: Nine Summaries of What "Good" Means
- Talk 9: Three Things that are All Right
- Talk 10-11: Classification of Mind and of Reasoning
- Talk 12: Seven Ways Things Shine Inside and Out
- Talk 13: Ten Important Points
- Talk 14: Nine Hurdles
- Talk 15: Four Supreme Things and Eleven Supreme Things.
Rinpoche also taught sections in Gradual Path to the Wisdom Essence.
- Talk 1of15, Tibetan - English File Audio file (MP3)
- Talk 2of15, Tibetan - English File Audio file (MP3)
Tek Chok Ling, Bouddha, unknown date
- Teaching to the Ani-las, Tibetan only File Audio file (MP3)
Rinpoche goes through the whole root text for the anis with beautiful advice for how to practice.
Tek Chok Ling, Bouddha, 20 February 2001
During that winter of 2000-2001, Rinpoche also taught the anis the Preliminary Practices, the Noble Maitreya's Aspiration Prayer, and The Aspiration Prayer of the Bodhisattvas.