With Drupon Thinley Ningpo Lord Jigten Summon, the father of our lineage, said: “ The Ngondro is even more important than the higher practices.One must truly understand and practice the simple yet profound foundational teachings before one begins the higher teachings.” One practices the four extraordinary foundations, or the Vajrayana Ngondro, to purify the negative karma and obscurations of the mind, speech and body and to develop virtues. Taking refuge, the foundation stone of all paths The inner preliminaries starts…