Lamrim Study and Practice
- Study The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, Lamrim Chenmo, by Lama Tsongkhapa. Also study the Middling Length Lamrim, which has more reasonings and debate cutting the wrong views, and Songs of Spiritual Experience, by Lama Tsongkhapa.
- Also study Essence of Refined Gold by the Third Dalai Lama, with a commentary by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama.
- Of course Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand by Pabongka Rinpoche. Your main text is this one. Please read this text four times and mark respectfully the passages you want further clarity on and ask qualified teachers like Geshe Dorji Damdul.
- Do effortful practice of guru devotion, following the lam-rim outline—the graduated path of the three capable beings—and after that do effortless meditation.
Practices
- 10,000: Refuge.
- Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga: recite 200,000 migtsema mantras.
- Every year try to do two, three or four nyung-näs, the fasting practice of Avalokiteshvara.
- Recite OM MANI PADME HUM, the mantra of Avalokitesvara, the Compassion Buddha, as much as possible. Also recite the Medicine Buddha mantra and do the short sadhana. Both are essential and very powerful in these degenerate times, also at the time of death.
Highest Yoga Tantra Practice
Your deity is Yamantaka, also called Vajrabhairava. This deity is a Maha-anuttara Yoga Tantra wrathful aspect of Manjushri. However, you must study lam-rim first.
