Mani Kabum transmission requirements

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Can anyone read this terma/text? A teacher of mine teaches from this. There's a transmission (presumably of the given chapter) at the start of every class, but I am unsure if that's required to partake in reading it. I am unsure if it's acceptable to watch the videos if I'm not there for the transmission or whether or not I can read it on my own.
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Hazel wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 2:07 am Can anyone read this terma/text? A teacher of mine teaches from this. There's a transmission (presumably of the given chapter) at the start of every class, but I am unsure if that's required to partake in reading it. I am unsure if it's acceptable to watch the videos if I'm not there for the transmission or whether or not I can read it on my own.
Khenpo Sodargye? If it is he require that participate in the lung live.

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heart wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 6:00 am
Hazel wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 2:07 am Can anyone read this terma/text? A teacher of mine teaches from this. There's a transmission (presumably of the given chapter) at the start of every class, but I am unsure if that's required to partake in reading it. I am unsure if it's acceptable to watch the videos if I'm not there for the transmission or whether or not I can read it on my own.
Khenpo Sodargye? If it is he require that participate in the lung live.

/magnus
Not Khenpo Sodargye, but good to know. The lama in question is not famous.

Is the lung for each chapter or is it one lung for the whole book?
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Hazel wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 5:30 pm
heart wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 6:00 am
Hazel wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 2:07 am Can anyone read this terma/text? A teacher of mine teaches from this. There's a transmission (presumably of the given chapter) at the start of every class, but I am unsure if that's required to partake in reading it. I am unsure if it's acceptable to watch the videos if I'm not there for the transmission or whether or not I can read it on my own.
Khenpo Sodargye? If it is he require that participate in the lung live.

/magnus
Not Khenpo Sodargye, but good to know. The lama in question is not famous.

Is the lung for each chapter or is it one lung for the whole book?
can be given chapter by chapter or all at once. Lama's choice.
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Malcolm wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 5:34 pm
Hazel wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 5:30 pm
heart wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 6:00 am

Khenpo Sodargye? If it is he require that participate in the lung live.

/magnus
Not Khenpo Sodargye, but good to know. The lama in question is not famous.

Is the lung for each chapter or is it one lung for the whole book?
can be given chapter by chapter or all at once. Lama's choice.
But one chapter is insufficient to read all of the book, correct?
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Hazel wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 5:35 pm
Malcolm wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 5:34 pm
Hazel wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 5:30 pm

Not Khenpo Sodargye, but good to know. The lama in question is not famous.

Is the lung for each chapter or is it one lung for the whole book?
can be given chapter by chapter or all at once. Lama's choice.
But one chapter is insufficient to read all of the book, correct?
yes
"We are all here to help each other go through this thing, whatever it is."
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"The principal practice is Guruyoga. But we need to understand that any secondary practice combined with Guruyoga becomes a principal practice." ChNNR (Teachings on Thun and Ganapuja)
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Re: Mani Kabum transmission requirements

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Hazel wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 5:35 pm
Malcolm wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 5:34 pm
Hazel wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 5:30 pm

Not Khenpo Sodargye, but good to know. The lama in question is not famous.

Is the lung for each chapter or is it one lung for the whole book?
can be given chapter by chapter or all at once. Lama's choice.
But one chapter is insufficient to read all of the book, correct?
Most of the Mani Kabum is history, a history describing the origin of Buddhism and its arrival in Tibet during the reign of Srongtsan Gampo, and a description of his reign. Most of it can certainly be read without transmission. For some of it, one should have empowerment of the King's Tradition of Avalokiteśvara. Those are the Vajrayāna instructions at the end of the second volume of the text.
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