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Lamrim Resources
The lamrim (“graduated path”) is a textual tradition that organizes Shakyamuni Buddha’s teachings into a complete step-by-step path to enlightenment.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Advice for Achieving Lamrim Realizations
Lama Zopa Rinpoche has given new advice suggesting that students follow a lamrim outline and meditate on each subject for two weeks or one month until all subjects have been completed. Rinpoche advised, “The amount of time for meditation is up to the individual, but the general advice is to finish the lamrim in one year,” Rinpoche said. “To meditate like this each year, wow, wow, wow! That would be great.”
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- Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Lamrim Commentary:
Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive‘s FPMT Lineage Series will offer Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teachings on the lamrim drawn from his four decades of discourses on the topic. It is based on his own textbook, The Wish-fulfilling Golden Sun and several traditional lamrim texts, and is generally arranged according to the outline of Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand by Pabongka Rinpoche. Once completed, the combined volumes of the series are envisioned to be one of the most extensive contemporary lamrim commentaries in existence. - How to Practice Dharma: Teachings on the Eight Worldly Dharmas: Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s indispensable commentary on the eight worldly dharmas, is the second book in Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive’s FPMT Lineage Series.
- Perfect Human Rebirth: Freedom and Richness on the Path to Enlightenment: Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains in the greatest possible detail just how precious a perfect human rebirth is and why we should not waste a moment of it. This is the third book in Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive’s FPMT Lineage Series
- The Heart of the Path: Seeing the Guru as Buddha: Drawing from nearly fifty teachings, this is a lengthy collection of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teachings on guru devotion.
- Practicing the Unmistaken Path : Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s lamrim teachings from Kopan 1991, Vol. 1
- Creating the Causes of Happiness : Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s lamrim teachings from Kopan 1991, Vol. 2
- Cutting the Root of Samsara : Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s lamrim teachings from Kopan 1991, Vol. 3
- Cherishing Others: The Heart of Dharma : Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s lamrim teachings from Kopan 1991, Vol. 4
- The Path to Ultimate Happiness : Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s lamrim teachings from Kopan 2009
- Lamrim Year: Making Life Meaningful Day By Day: Daily quotes and text selected from four decades of teachings by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa
- Wish-fulfilling Golden Sun: Published in 1975, this text has been preserved in its original form and should be used with the understanding that many standard styles, pronunciations, and prayers have been revised and updated since the time of publication.
- Transcripts of various Kopan Courses
- Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s lamrim teachings collected on the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive website
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Lamrim Commentary:
- Lamrim Chenmo, The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment by Je Tsongkhapa
- Volume 1: English | Vietnamese
- Volume 2: English | Vietnamese
- Volume 3: English | Vietnamese
- Steps on the Path to Enlightenment: A Commentary on the Lamrim Chenmo by Geshe Lhundub Sopa
- Volume 1: The Foundation Practices
- Volume 2: Karma
- Volume 3: The way of the Boddhisattva
- Volume 4: Shamatha
- Volume 5: Insight
- Practicing the Path, a commentary on the Lamrim Chenmo, by Yangsi Rinpoche
- Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand by Pabongka Rinpoche
- Library of Wisdom and Compassion, a multi-volume collection presenting the Dalai Lama’s comprehensive explanation of the Buddhist path
- Volume 1: Approaching the Buddhist Path
- Volume 2: The Foundation of Buddhist Practice
- Volume 3: Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature
- Volume 4: Following in the Buddha’s Footsteps
- Volume 5: In Praise of Great Compassion
- Volume 6: Courageous Compassion
- Volume 7: Searching for the Self
- Volume 8: Realizing the Profound View
- Volume 9: Appearing and Empty
- The Middle-Length Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment by Je Tsongkhapa English | Vietnamese | Spanish
- The Essence of the Vast and Profound: A Commentary on Je Tsongkhapa’s Middle-Length Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment by Pabongkha Rinpoche
- The Swift Path: A Meditation Manual on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment by Second Panchen Lama Losang Yeshe
- Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment by Atisha Dipamkara
- From Here to Enlightenment by Holiness the Dalai Lama
- The Path to Enlightenment by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
- Illuminating the Path to Enlightenment by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
- The Essential Nectar by Geshe Rabten
- Lamrim Outlines: Extended Beginners’ Meditation Guide by Ven. Karin Valham
- A collection of Lamrim Texts: Lamrim Prayers
- A Direct Meditation on All the Important Points of the Lamrim by Losang Jinpa | English | Spanish
- The Foundation of All Good Qualities by Je Tsongkhapa | English | Polish
- A Hymn of Experience by Je Tsongkhapa
- Three Principal Aspects of the Path by Je Tsongkhapa
- Calling the Guru from Afar
- Practicing Guru Devotion with the Nine Attitudes
- The Graduated Path to Liberation by Geshe Rabten Rinpoche
- Schedule for Three-Day Lamrim Retreat by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- Lamrim texts in Spanish
- Singing the Lamrim by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- Guided Meditations on the Stages of the Path by Ven. Thubten Chodron
- The Complete Lamrim by Ven. Karin Valham
- FPMT Basic Program: This text based, in-depth education program includes the subject Stages of the Path, presented by means of an oral commentary on Je Tsongkhapa’s Middle Length Lamrim.
- Discovering Buddhism: This is a two-year, fourteen-module series that provides a solid foundation in the lamrim.
- Living in the Path: This lamrim program is based on Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teachings on Atisha’s Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment.
FPMT Education Services has created a schedule to help you plan daily lamrim meditation sessions over the course of a calendar year. It was created on the basis of the book The Essential Nectar by Geshe Rabten, which is available through the Foundation Store. The schedule is available as an Excel spreadsheet or PDF.
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