A very busy Dagri Rinpoche sat down with contributor Katy Fradet to discuss how to integrate Ngondro or “Preliminary Practices” into a daily session of meditation. Katy met him in his small house, local-Indian-style, surrounded by a beautiful and peaceful garden in Sera where she could hear the birds singing at sunset while Rinpoche spoke. He cancelled his participation in a puja to devote time to the interview in the hope that this “little talk” as he called it, would be of benefit.
Katy Fradet: What is the purpose of doing Ngondro practices, for instance doing 100,000 prostrations, mandala offerings, etc.?