[GP] Book Launch! The 108 Practices of Oddiyana.

In our Kula there are many kinds of termas and upadeshas that are particular to our students needs in this time. Most of these concern the Vajrayana, which requires various kinds of initiations and sometimes heavy Samaya vows. One exception to this is a special teaching of Guru Vimalamitra in the Upadesha Treasury of Rigdzin. This instruction contains ways of giving puja to over one hundred different Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Deities, Vidhyadharas and more. This is presented in a way where any practioner of Sutra and Tantra can engage in it continually without requiring further commitment than the Bodhisattva vows. While this teaching is benefitted greatly by transmission and we encourage it, anyone with Bodhicitta motivation can use these pujas until they are able to receive the transmission. In this way, it is possible for us to publish this text widely for all, in the hopes that the blessings of…