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>>19180867
Tibetan Buddhism

I’ve been studying Tibetan Buddhism for a while now and I’m very interested in it, but sometimes I feel like it gets overly complicated and that gets in the way of practice. For example, I was browsing a Buddhist forum the other day and someone was posting about how they had received the transmission for a ngondro practice, but they couldn’t remember which ngondro. There are hundreds of different ngondros, all nearly the exact same and with only minor variations. But you can only practice the exact one you have received a transmission for. So instead of doing the practice, this person is worrying about which exact practice they should be doing. This goes for almost every Tibetan Buddhist practice. You have to receive a transmission for every practice (of which there are MILLIONS) and you can only do that exact practice. So if you receive the transmission for the White Tara practice of Purified Drop of Immortality, you can do only that exact practice, not any of the other hundreds of White Tara practices, like Accomplishing Deathlessness.