2017 Galiano-Jewel Lamp And Refuge-01

Following a reading transmission the previous week, Lama Mark Webber reads and gives commentary on a few pages of verses from Khunu Lama Gyaltsen's 1959 text called The Jewel Lamp, published by Wisdom as Vast as the Heavens, Deep as the Sea: A Praise of Bodhicitta. It is 356 verses expressing the boundless scope of Bodhicitta. Then, Lama Mark read and gave commentary on ten points of advice of "the ten kinds of waste" from Gampopa's text called Precious Garland of the Sublime Path. Further into the class, Lama Mark describes the details and meaning of the Drikung Yangzab Dzogchen Refuge Tree from the perspective of the outer, inner, secret and suchness levels of Refuge and Bodhicitta. This led him to give essence advise - from the perspective of Vajrayana - regarding the vitality and importance of the generation and completion stage practices and their inseparability.