"For as long as space exists and sentient beings endure,
May I too remain,
To dispel the misery
of the world."

 

 

Shantideva, 

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Way of Life"

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New to Buddhism?

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Whether you are interested in following the path of Buddhism or just want to

learn more, this article has some helpful advice on how to get started and

outlines some of the basics.

Chanting the Seven-line Prayer

For students who have received teachings on Guru Rinpoche and wish to learn the Seven Line Prayer , 

go to "Chanting the Seven Line Prayer" (about 1/2 page down from top) - at www.palyul.org/eng_resources.htm

 

   

"Take advantage of this human boat; Free yourself from sorrow's mighty stream!

This vessel will be later hard to find. The time that you have now, you fool, is not for sleep!"  

Shantideva, Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, chapter VII, verse 14  

 

About Ngöndro in the Palyul Nam Chö Lineage

The Great Perfection Teachings and Transmissions:

Buddha in the Palm of the Hand

 

From Palyul.org

Ngöndro is a collection of practices known as "The Four Foundations." These practices form the fundamental

 ground for all Tibetan Buddhist practice and for higher Dzogchen practice. His Holiness Penor Rinpoche gave

 the Nam Chö Ngöndro teachings and practice for the first time in India at Namdroling (the Palyul main

  monastery  in exile in Bylakuppe, India) - in 1980 to Karma Kuchen Rinpoche, Choktrul Rinpoche, 

Gyankhang Tulku, and three or four other tulkus. Also present were the only three Palyul khenpos living

 in India at that time, Khenchen Pema Sherab, Khenchen Namdrol, and Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso. 

 

During the one-month Summer Retreats offered at the monastery and upstate New York Retreat Center,

 His Holiness Penor practices the short Daily Practice version of the Ngöndro with the assembly of retreatants

 

every day. Ngöndro is so powerful a practice that His Holiness has been known to allow students who are 

elderly who have not completed Tsa Lung Tummo practice but who have a very strong foundation in Ngöndro 

to recieve Dzogchen teachings. In any case, all that is contained and learned in Ngöndro is contained in the 

so-called "higher" practices.

As the foundation of the teachings of the Buddha Dharma, Ngondrö consists of contemplation, insight, 

purification, offering and devotion practices. First are what is known as the outer preliminaries which turn the 

mind towards the practice through contemplating the preciousness of human birth, impermanence, suffering, 

how cause and effect ("karma")  work, and so on. Anyone Buddhist or not can practice the outer preliminaries. 

 

Second, are the inner preliminaries. This includes Refuge and Bodhicitta (loving-kindness practice), the 

Mandala Offering, Vajrasattva Purification, and Guru Yoga. Traditionally the student needs to complete 

100,000 repetitions of each part of these preliminaries although the master may require more or less as the 

teacher judges from the student's capacity.

 


 


 

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