I was never taught a formal liturgical form of the ngondro I am currently working on.conebeckham wrote: ↑Tue Aug 27, 2019 7:56 pmI also agree with this. When I was living at a Dharma center, Ngondro was done as a group practice Saturdays from 10 to 11:30 am. Recitations were done 7 times each, except for VS mantras which were done 100x. (long one, and a bunch of the short one). This was the Kamtsang Ngondro, Chariot for Travelling.....also, it was done in English and Tibetan, alternately, and actual physical prostrations were not done in a group setting, nor were Mandala plates used.
In personal practice, things were different.
This also isn't a "group practice". As in I am at a center and I'm leading a practice as some proxy for the lama or center.
This is called "practicing at my house".