One introductory/instructional talk and one practice session (with audio and on-screen text) on one DVD.
On this DVD is a one hour talk by Lama Kathy Wesley in which she both introduces the Chenrezik Sadhana and gives practice instruction for it. Excellent graphics showing the syllables to be visualized are shown on-screen. Also on this disk is the audio portion of a Chenrezik Sadhana practice session at KTD monastery in Woodstock, NY. The words to the sadhana scroll by on full screen so that viewers can use the KTD session as a guide for their own practice session. This one disk is a brief but excellent introduction to the Chenrezik Sadhana.
For those desiring a more extensive discussion, four additional talks (over seven hours of video on two DVDs) are also available. In those talks, given two weeks earlier in Hartford, CT, Lama Kathy elaborates at length upon the practice and places it in the larger context of quiet sitting meditation and compassion meditation. The talks are titled Cultivating the Compassionate Heart: The Practice of Chenrezik.(Vajra Echoes) That DVD set does not have the KTD session for use as a practice guide, or the graphics, so that set and this single DVD are complementary to each other.


Chenrezik Sadhana, Lama Kathy Wesley, Vajra Echoes, 1 DVD, one hour, $20.00

Lama Kathy Wesley has been a student of Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche since 1977. She participated in the first three-year retreat at Karme-Ling Retreat Center, completing the retreat in 1996. She now serves the Columbus KTC as its resident teacher. Lama Kathy has taught regularly at Hartford KTC and other KTCs since ths fall of 1998. She is a delightful and warm person who teaches with clarity, compassion and humor.