Gaden Choling Mahayana Buddhist Meditation Centre

This page is still under construction, and will present a general introduction to Lam-rim chen-mo, often just referred to as Lam-rim.

Gaden Choling has typically offered a rotating series of courses, presented as the weekly Dharma Study Program classes. Lam-rim is one course from that series, along with Lo-jong and others.

Resources

• "The Joyful Path of Good Fortune" by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (Tharpa Publications, 2nd rev. ed., 1995).

  An outline of the book is available.

A Brief Outline of Some Lam Rim Topics

• Preliminaries.
  • Qualities of the Lam Rim and its teachers. 
  • Listening to and teaching Dharma.
  • Relying on a spiritual guide.
  • Meditation.
• The Initial Scope: Attaining a superior rebirth for
  yourself.
  • Our precious human life.
  • Death.
  • The lower realms.
  • Refuge.
  • Karma.
• The Intermediate Scope: Attaining freedom from samsara for
  yourself.
  • Cyclic existence.
  • The Wheel of Becoming.
  • The four noble truths.
  • Twelve dependent-related links.
• The Great Scope: Attaining freedom from samsara for all
  sentient beings.
  • Bodhicitta.
  • The four immeasurables.
  • The six perfections.
  • Calm abiding and special insight.