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Ngondro: The Four Foundational Practices of Tibetan Buddhism

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Ole Nydahl became a Buddhist lama after studying under H.H. the 16th Karmapa in the early seventies. Ever since he has opened the world of Buddhism to the west and has founded hundreds of Buddhist centres around the world. In this book he shares his immense experience with the reader, and introduces the so-called Four Foundational Practices. These are specific meditations that are employed as the preliminary practice in order to prepare the body and mind for more advanced studies. Each exercise must be repeated 111,111 times (usually over a number of years) to reap the full benefit. The book is interesting and worthwhile for Buddhists as well as for anyone interested in understanding the basic practices of Tibetan Buddhism.

A few years ago I described to some other buddhists how clearly this book had taught me how to do the visualization for prostrations and some of them even became angry and jealous! If you're following karma kagyu this is by far the clearest instructions on nondro you can find. Good luck in your practice.

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He's said to have a new, expanded, superior version of this that's going to be published in the next year sometime so you might want to wait for that one. Usually when he "improves" something he really does make it considerably better. Best of luck!