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|Submissiondate=2025-07-30 | |Submissiondate=2025-07-30 | ||
|Submissionyear=2025 | |Submissionyear=2025 | ||
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|firstname=Edward | |firstname=Edward | ||
|lastname=Alexander | |lastname=Alexander | ||
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|formalvowsdetails=Refuge and Bodhisattva Vow, Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, 2014. | |formalvowsdetails=Refuge and Bodhisattva Vow, Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, 2014. | ||
Vajrayana empowerments, Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, 2014. | Vajrayana empowerments, Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, 2014. | ||
|ngondrocomplete= | |ngondrocomplete=No | ||
|ngondronotes=I have completed the prostrations for the Ngondro of the Drolma Zabtik terma cycle revealed by Chokgyur Lingpa as part of the Tara's Triple Excellence online program (begun in summer of 2023). This terma cycle also includes 100 performances of the outer sadhana and 1 million mantra recitations along with performances of the inner sadhana as preliminaries to the Ngondro practices. I am currently accumulating Bodhicitta prayers for this Ngondro. | |||
|ngondronotes=I have completed the prostrations for the Ngondro of the Drolma Zabtik terma cycle revealed by Chokgyur Lingpa as part of the Tara's Triple Excellence online program. This terma cycle also includes 100 performances of the outer sadhana and 1 million mantra recitations along with performances of the inner sadhana as preliminaries to the Ngondro practices. | |||
I have accumulated a | I have accumulated about a third of the prostrations for the Lamey Tukdrub Barchey Kunsel terma cycle, starting when I received the reading transmission in 2015. Because Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche told me to practice the Triple Excellence program, I have focused more on this while including recitations of the Tukdrub Barchey Kunsel Ngondro in my daily practice over the years for continuity's sake. | ||
|ngondroPartialComplete=Yes | |||
|ngondroPartialBegin=2015-11-01 | |||
|ngondroPartialDetails=See notes above. | |||
|previousretreatscomplete=Yes | |previousretreatscomplete=Yes | ||
|previousretreatsdetails=I did a one month dathun retreat with Reggie Ray's Dharma Ocean sangha in 2012 and a 35-day Trinley Nyingpo retreat in 2019. I have done two three-week and several two- or one-week solitary retreats in addition to this. | |previousretreatsdetails=I did a one month dathun retreat with Reggie Ray's Dharma Ocean sangha in 2012 and a 35-day Trinley Nyingpo retreat in 2019. I have done two three-week and several two- or one-week solitary retreats in addition to this. | ||
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