Fundamental Practices A Modern Ngondro Guide By Sakya Trizin Forty-Second

The Fundamental Practices: A Modern Ngöndro Guide by the Forty-Second Sakya Trizin, Ratna Vajra Rinpoche, explains the preliminary practices of the Tibetan Buddhist path. The four thoughts turning the mind toward Dharma provide a foundation.

The guide also discusses refuge, bodhichitta, Vajrasattva practice, mandala offering and guru yoga. It offers context for understanding both common and uncommon preliminaries within Mahayana and Vajrayana practice.