At Karmê Chöling in 1994 Rinpoche offered three talks to students, who were practicing Ngondro, the Preliminary Practices for Mahamudra:
- The first talk explains the madhyamaka view regarding ground, path and fruition. Rinpoche bases his explanation on the Treasury of Knowledge, chapter 6.3. དབུ་མའི་ལྟ་བ། གཞི་ལམ་འབྲས་བུ།
- The second, explains the view, meditation and conduct in relation to the common and uncommon preliminary practices. ལྟ་སྒོམ་སྤྱོད་པ།
- The third talk explains the four tantra classes, where Rinpoche draws from Treasury of Knowledge, chapter 6.4. རྒྱུད་སྡེ་བཞི། He also elucidates the four abhishekas and the importance of samaya དབང་བཞི་དང་དམ་ཚིག་གི་སྐོར།
Here, you will also find a recording of an audience held at Marpa House in Boulder, on 10 October, 1994. མཇལ་འཕྲད།
At Karmê Chöling, 1995, Rinpoche again offered the Ngondro audience three talks:
- a talk on Prayer of Excellent Conduct, འཕགས་པ་བཟང་པོ་སྤྱོད་པའི་སྨོན་ལམ་གྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ།
- Ordinary Mind, ཐ་མལ་གྱི་ཤེས་པ།
- Impermanence and Practice མི་རྟག་པ་དང་ཉམས་ལེན་གྱི་སྐོར།
At the Laughing Vajra seminar at Karmê Chöling, 1996, Rinpoche offers three talks to an audience of Tantrikas:
- Common and Uncommon Preliminary Practices ཐུན་མོང་དང་ཐུན་མིན་གྱི་སྔོན་འགྲོ།
- Excerpts from Nagarjuna's Fundamental Knowledge of the Middle Way དབུ་མ་རྩ་བའི་ཤེས་རབ།
- Questions and Answers དྲི་ལེན།
Tibetan - English
10 talks, video and audio
To enroll in the course, the samaya key in sNgon-'gro-4