The Index Page provides an outline of the topics discussed in each of the lectures. Click on the links below to go directly to a particular lecture.

1. Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of Compassion

• Tong-len
• Kindness of the mother/parents
• How Avalokiteshvara generated bodhicitta, got his name and does the work of all the buddhas

2. The Benefits of Reciting OM MANI PADME HUM

• The benefits of making Avalokiteshvara statues
• Avalokiteshvara meditation
• Avalokiteshvara mantra
• Stories of Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche and Serkong Dorje Chang
• Origin and benefits of the Avalokiteshvara mantra

3. The Path of Secret Mantra

• Tantra: secrecy and effort
• Bearing difficulties to study and practice Dharma
• Secret mantra
• The meaning of mantra

4. The Vehicle of the Result

• Vehicle of result: four purities
• Vehicle of method
• Bodhicitta motivation for Avalokiteshvara initiation

5. Blessing the Speech

• Blessing the speech
• Spirit harm
• Cigarette smoking
• Cleanliness in Kriya Tantra

6. The Transcendental Wisdom of Great Bliss

• The meaning of Vajrayana
• The Vajrayana path

7. Abiding in the Retreat

• The meaning of vajra
• Achieving the guru
• The meaning of vajra, unified
• Guru devotion
• The benefits of nyung näs

8. Prostrations and Offerings

• Visualizing the merit field
• Outline of nyung nä practice
• Prostrations and request to Avalokiteshvara
• Inner ablution

9. Meditation on Emptiness

• Requests to the lineage lamas
• Self-generation
• Emptiness shunyata)
• Yoga of sleep

10. The Merely Labeled I

• Emptiness (shunyata)
• Four schools of Buddhist philosophy
• Middle Way school
• Identifying the truly existent I