FIRST YEAR INFORMATION

In order to give a better idea of the course organisation, you will find some documents from the First Year Course in 2005.

• Welcome letter by Rinpoche
• Poem written by Rinpoche to introduce the course
• Student Accumulation Booklet
• Advice from Patrul Rinpoche to the students (end of the course of the Second Year, in 2006)

Practical organisation

• Daily schedule during the course
• Tasks during the course

FIRST YEAR DETAILED CURRICULUM

The path on which one reflects on searching for self-liberation

Advice for those who, desiring liberation, reflect on searching for the path of self-liberation – like the thisha, a bird who searches for a safe and secure place when building its nest.

Curriculum:

• Searching for a path
• Distinguishing between paths
• Motivation
• Refuge
• Bodhicitta
• The six transcendent perfections (paramitas)

Initiations:

• Karling Shitro
• Dorje Sempa

Oral Transmissions:

• The Common Outer Preliminary Practices from The Words of My Perfect Teacher
• Recitation for the Preliminary Practices (the long and short versions)
• Karling Shitro
• Dorje Sempa
• The 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva

Instruction:

The path on which one reflects on searching for self-liberation

Study:

• Advice for those who, desiring liberation, reflect on searching for the path of self-liberation –
  like the thisha, a bird who searches for a safe and secure place when building its nest.

Practice:

• 100-syllable mantra: 18,000 times
• 6-syllable mantra: 103,000 times
• 10th and 25th day practices without fail

Meditation: