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Lam-rim

A course of training in the Mahayana sutra teachings through which one makes progress by developing graded stages of motivation, which act as pathway minds leading to enlightenment.

Tibetan: ལམ་རིམ། lam-rim

J. Hopkins: Stages of the path

Synonyms: Graded path; Graded stages of the path; Graded stages of pathway minds


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Русский: Ламрим
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Lam-rim 21: The Animal Realm; Their Sufferings & Its Causes
Lam-rim 27: Actions for Training from the Quintessence Teachings
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Lam-rim 42: Three Phases of an Action
Lam-rim 49: Certainty of the Time Frame of the Ripening of Karma
Lam-rim 58: What We Do as Liberated Beings; Sufferings of Sickness & Death
Lam-rim 6: Mind Comes from Mind; Meditation on the 18 Situations
Lam-rim 14: Nine-Part Death Meditation: Second & Third of Three Root Facts
Lam-rim 34: Fourth Law of Karma – No Loss of Karmic Results
Lam-rim 43: How Does Karma Work; Initiation and Finale of an Action
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Lam-rim 60: Suffering of Meeting with What We Don’t Like
Lam-rim 36: Thinking about Ethical Rules
Lam-rim 52: Twelve Factors That Affect the Happiness or Unhappiness That Ripens
Lam-rim 61: Suffering of Not Obtaining What We Wish for & of the Aggregates
Lam-rim 62: Suffering of the Anti-Gods
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Lam-rim – Part 14: Conditions for Developing Bodhichitta
Lam-rim – Part 15: Developing Bodhichitta in 7 Steps
Lam-rim – Part 16: Changing Attitudes about Self & Others
Lam-rim – Part 17: Bodhisattva Vows
Lam-rim – Part 18: Generosity
Lam-rim – Part 19: Ethical Self-Discipline
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Lam-rim – Part 20: Patience & Overcoming Anger
Lam-rim – Part 21: Perseverance & Overcoming Laziness
Lam-rim – Part 22: Concentration, Wisdom, Influencing Others
Lam-rim – Part 23: Identifying Shamatha & Vipashyana
Lam-rim – Part 24: Preparations for Attaining Shamatha
Lam-rim – Part 25: How to Attain Shamatha
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Lam-rim – Part 27: Mental Labeling & Individual Characteristic Marks
Lam-rim – Part 28: The Object to Be Refuted & Over-refutation
Lam-rim – Part 29: Refutation of the Over-refutation of the Object to Be Refuted
Lam-rim – Part 2: Death and Impermanence
Lam-rim – Part 30: Not Losing the Assertion of Conventional Phenomena
Lam-rim – Part 31: Under-refutation of the Object to Be Refuted
Lam-rim – Part 32: Gelug Prasangika Assertion of the Two Truths
Lam-rim – Part 33: Emptiness of the Self in the 4 Tenet Systems
Lam-rim – Part 3: The Worse States of Rebirth
Lam-rim – Part 4: Safe Direction (Refuge)
Lam-rim – Part 5: The Four Laws of Karma
Lam-rim – Part 6: Factors Affecting Karma
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