Ngöndro or Preliminary Practices

“Indescribable innate wakefulness depends only upon the practices of gathering the accumulations and purifying the obscurations and upon the blessings of a realized master...” -- Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

“The extraordinary preliminaries, the Ngöndro …. does this in a way that is very simple, that does not require much effort and is extremely effective. …. The preliminaries practices consist of refuge and bodhichitta, Vajrasattva meditation, mandala offering, and guru yoga…” -- Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche