Teachings from the Sutra Tradition, Book One. This is an edited transcript of teachings given by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche at the nineteenth Vajradhatu Seminary, part of an eleven-week training period of intensive meditation and study, held at Rocky Mountain Dharma Center (now SMC), Red Feather Lakes, Colorado, summer 1999. Six talks include

• Details of shamatha practice
• Motivation
  
• The twelve nidanas
• How the dharma takes root
• The importance of renunciation
• Taking refuge
  

Vajradhatu Publications
Softcover, 8 1/2" x 11"
159 pp.