Lamrim

Lamrim is a Tibetan Buddhist genre that presents the path to enlightenment as an ordered sequence of practices and contemplations. Its influential form organizes teachings around practitioners of different capacities.

Bodhicitta: The intention to attain awakening for the benefit of all sentient beings. Lamrim presents this altruistic aspiration as a defining aim of the great-capacity path.
Three Scopes: A Lamrim framework grouping practitioners by initial, intermediate, and great capacity. This framework gives the path its characteristic progression of motivations.
Atisha: An eleventh-century Indian Buddhist master who helped renew Buddhism in Tibet. His Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment became the foundational model for Lamrim.
The New Meditation Handbook: A modern presentation of Lamrim teachings by the Tibetan Buddhist teacher Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. Its accessible format shows how Lamrim is adapted for contemporary meditation instruction.
Karma in Buddhism: The Buddhist principle that intentional actions shape future experiences and rebirths. Lamrim uses karma to explain why ethical conduct matters across lifetimes.
Meditation on the Stages of the Path: A contemplative practice that repeatedly reviews Lamrim teachings in a structured order. Systematic reflection turns the outline into a sustained personal discipline.
Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment: An eleventh-century Buddhist treatise by Atisha outlining a graduated path to awakening. This concise work established the form later Tibetan Lamrim texts expanded.
Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand: A widely taught exposition of the stages of the path by Pabongka Rinpoche. This oral-teaching-based work illustrates Lamrim’s use in Tibetan Buddhist study and practice.
Samsara: The cycle of birth, death, and rebirth shaped by ignorance and karma. Lamrim’s early stages examine the unsatisfactory nature of existence in this cycle.
Analytical Meditation: A Buddhist meditation method that examines a topic through reasoning and contemplation. Lamrim uses analysis to develop conviction in teachings such as impermanence and compassion.

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