Dr. Alexander Berzin's own teaching transcript naming the 100,000-repetition mandala offering as a standard Vajrayana ngondro preliminary, and framing its giving logic as offering the whole universe symbolically.
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Tier 2: an edited transcription of a November 2006 seminar given by Dr. Alexander Berzin, a Harvard-trained scholar and translator of Tibetan Buddhism whose own archive is widely cited in Buddhist studies. Names mandala offering as one of the standard ngondro practices alongside refuge, Vajrasattva purification and guru-yoga, and states directly: "Normally, what we try to do is 100,000 repetitions of each of these practices." Frames the practice's own giving logic: "It's the willingness to give everything, the whole universe, everything, in order to benefit others." Citation
AuthorDr. Alexander Berzin
PublisherStudy Buddhism (studybuddhism.com, the Berzin Archives)
URLhttps://studybuddhism.com/en/advanced-studies/vajrayana/tantra-theory/overview-of-tantra/tantra-ngondro-empowerments-and-ritual-practice
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