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Teachings Received in Chronological Order

1971

Lama Zopa Rinpoche

  • Graduated Path to Enlightenment

Geshe Ngawang Dhargaye

  • Graduated Path to Enlightenment

Geshe Rabten

  • Graduated Path to Enlightenment

1972

Lama Zopa Rinpoche

  • Graduated Path to Enlightenment

Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche

  • Vajra Yogini Initiation

1973

Geshe Rabten

  • Commentary to Guru Puja

Kyabje Ling rinpoche

  • Initiation of Vajra Bhairava

  • Complete Commentary to Guru Puja

Lama Zopa Rinpoche

  • Graduated Path to Enlightenment

Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche

  • Initiation of Heruka – Five Deities of the Bell

  • Initiation of Vajra Yogini

  • Full Commentary on Vajra Yogini

Geshe Ngawang Dhargaye

  • Entering the Middle Way — Chandrakirti

  • Graduated Path to Enlightenment

  • Jewel Ornament of Liberation — Gampopa

1974

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

  • The 37 Practices of the Bodhisattvas

  • Kalachakra Initiation

  • Initiation of Two-Armed Avalokiteshvara

Serkong Rinpoche

  • Vajra Yogini Initiation

Kalu Rinpoche

  • Initiation of Four-Armed Avalokiteshvara

Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche

  • Four-Armed Avalokiteshvara Initiation (private)

Geshe Rabten

  • Tenets of the Schools of Philosophy

  • Seven-Point Mind Training

Kyabje Ling rinpoche

  • Vajrapani Initiation

  • Vajra Bhairava Initiation

  • Outer and Inner Kalarupa Initiation

Geshe Ngawang Dhargaye

  • Commentary to Guru Offerings

  • Commentary on Vajra Bhairava

  • Practices of an Awakened Warrior

1975

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

  • Precious Garland — Nagarjuna

  • Initiation of Two-Armed Avalokiteshvara

Lama Zopa Rinpoche

  • Graduated Path to Enlightenment

Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche

  • Initiation of Heruka — Five Deities of the Bell

Geshe Rabten

  • Lamp on the Path — Atisha

Kunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen

  • Transmission of Chapter 2 of Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life

  • Bodhisattva Precepts

Namgyal Traktsen (Abbot)

  • Monastic Precepts

1976

Kyabje Ling rinpoche

  • Seven-Point Mind Training

Biro Khyentse Rinpoche

  • Initiation of Four-Armed Avalokiteshvara

1977

Geshe Thubten Lodan

  • Graduated Path to Enlightenment

  • Seven-Point Mind Training

  • Commentary to Tushita’s Deva Host

  • Commentary to Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life

  • Novice Monk Precepts

  • Commentary to Abhidharmakosha

  • Initiations of Green Tara, White Tara, Manjushri, Four-Armed Avalokiteshvara

  • Commentary on Entering the Middle Way — Chandrakirti

  • Commentary to the 21 Taras

Kyabje Ling rinpoche

  • Initiation of Vajra Bhairava

  • Commentary to Guru Offerings

  • Initiation of Two-Armed Avalokiteshvara

  • Initiation of Amitayus

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

  • Commentary to Six-Session Guru Yoga

  • Commentary to the Awakened Warrior Path

  • Initiation of Thousand-Armed Avalokiteshvara

  • Transmission of Seven-Point Mind Training

  • Transmission of the Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Geshe Ngawang Dhargaye

  • Commentary to the 400 Verses — Aryadeva

Lama Thubten Yeshe

  • Vajrasattva Initiation

  • Cittamani Tara

Lama Zopa Rinpoche

  • Initiation of Green Tara

  • Transmission of Milarepa’s Mantra

1978

Kyabje Ling rinpoche

  • Initiation of Vajra Bhairava

  • Commentary on Vajra Bhairava (private)

Geshe Ngawang Dhargaye

  • Commentary on Vajra Bhairava

Biro Khyentse Rinpoche

  • Initiation of Green Tara

  • Song of Mahamudra — Third Karmapa

  • Guide to the Awakened Warrior (Chapters 1–3)

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  • Transmission of the Biography of Padmasambhava (private, Bodhi Tree)

Rato Rinpoche

  • Initiation of Heruka — Five Deities of the Bell

  • Vajra Yogini Initiation

  • Vajra Yogini Pure Land Practice

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

  • Separating Oneself from the Four Attachments (Sakya teaching)

  • Ritual of Generating Wishing Altruism

1979

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

  • Initiation of Guhyasamaja

  • Initiation of 13-Deity Vajra Bhairava

  • Initiation of Two-Armed Avalokiteshvara

  • Commentary on the 50 Verses of Guru Yoga

  • Commentary on Chapter 8 of the Awakened Warrior Path

Geshe Ngawang Dhargaye

  • Vajrapani Initiation

  • Vajra Yogini Initiation

  • Commentary on Vajra Yogini

Serkong Rinpoche

  • Initiation of Vajra Bhairava

  • Commentary on Seven-Point Mind Training

  • Vajra Yogini Initiation

  • Transmission of the Great Retreat Text

  • Initiation of White Tara

Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche

  • Initiation of Vajrapani Hayagriva

  • Transmission of Medicine Buddha

  • Initiation of Heruka — Five Deities of the Bell

  • Vajra Yogini Initiation

  • Cittamani Tara Initiation (private)

Kyabje Ling rinpoche

  • Initiation of 13-Deity Vajra Bhairava

  • Initiations of Mahakala, Mahakali, and Kalarupa

  • Medicine Buddha Initiation

  • Vajra Bhairava Initiation

  • Kalarupa Initiation

  • Initiation of Je Tsongkhapa and the Hundred Gods of Tushita

  • Commentary on the Hundred Gods of Tushita

  • Commentary to Guru Offerings

  • Commentary to Kalarupa

  • Commentary to the Great Retreat

  • Transmission of Sengtongma

Biro Khyentse Rinpoche

  • Initiations of Four-Armed Avalokiteshvara, Manjushri, Amitabha, and Medicine Buddha

Rato Rinpoche

  • Initiation of Guhyasamaja

1980

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

  • Commentary to the Awakened Warrior Path (Chapters 8–10)

  • Transmission of Praise to Bodhicitta — Kunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen

  • Initiation of Heruka 64-Deity (Luipa lineage)

Dusek Rinpoche

  • Initiation of Guru Rinpoche

  • Commentary to the Seven-Line Prayer

Dema Lochen Rinpoche

  • Commentary to Self-Initiation of Vajra Bhairava

Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche

  • Vajra Bhairava Initiation (private)

  • Mahakala Initiation (private)

Rato Rinpoche

  • Initiations of White Tara, Black Manjushri, and Thousand-Armed Avalokiteshvara

  • Initiations of Vajrasattva, Vajrasamaya, and Cittamani Tara

  • Initiation of Guhyasamaja

  • Commentary to the Two Stages of Guhyasamaja

  • Vajra Yogini Initiation

  • Commentary to Vajra Yogini Pure Land Practice

1982

Kyabje Ling rinpoche (all private)

  • Transmission of Three Lineages of Transference of Consciousness

  • Initiation of Kalarupa

  • Commentary to Medicine Buddha Prayers

  • Commentary to the Hundred Gods of Tushita

1983

Kyabje Ling rinpoche

  • Commentary to Six-Session Guru Yoga

  • Commentary to Vajra Bhairava Prayer

  • Commentary to Eight Verses of Mind Training

  • Transmission of Wheel of Sharp Weapons

Geshe Ngawang Dhargaye

  • Commentary to the Six Yogas of Naropa

  • Commentary on the Root Text of Mahamudra — Yongsal Drolma

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

  • Initiation of 13-Deity Vajra Bhairava

1984

Dema Lochen Rinpoche

  • Commentary to Luipa Heruka 64-Deity Practice

  • Commentary to Mixing Peaceful and Wrathful Vajra Bhairava

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  • Virtue in the Beginning, Middle and End — Patrul Rinpoche

  • Transmission of the Great Completion: Three Words That Strike the Point

  • Transmission of the Three-Armed Practice

  • Amitayus Initiation

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

  • Initiation of Red Avalokiteshvara

Return to Canada

1986

Ludring Khyen Rinpoche (Sakya Lineage)

  • Initiation of Heruka 64 Deities — Nagpopa Lineage

  • Vajra Yogini Initiation

  • Commentary on Vajra Yogini

  • Initiations of Cittapala, Four-Armed Avalokiteshvara, and Green Tara

Zasep Tulku

  • Initiations of Four-Armed Avalokiteshvara and Green Tara

  • Commentary on the Final Chapter of Uttartantra

1987

Geshe Gyaltsen

  • Initiation of Four-Armed Avalokiteshvara

1988

Zasep Tulku

  • Vajra Bhairava Initiation

1989

His Holiness Sakya Trizin (Sakya Lineage)

  • Initiation of Dorje Phurba

  • Initiation of the 37 Yoginis of Virupa

  • Initiation of Ri-Trolma

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

  • Transmission of the Eight Manifestations of Guru Rinpoche

1990 – 1998

Tara Rinpoche

  • Initiation of 13-Deity Yamantaka

Lati Rinpoche

  • Vajra Yogini Initiation

1998

Khalkha Jetsun Dampa Rinpoche

  • Full 21 Tara Initiations

  • Vajra Yogini Initiation

2000

Khalkha Jetsun Dampa Rinpoche

  • Initiation of Heruka — Five Deities of the Bell

  • Vajra Yogini Initiation

  • Full Commentary on Vajra Yogini