Lamrim Year: Making Life Meaningful Day by Day
About this ebook
The daily quote and text have been selected from four decades of teachings by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, both published and unpublished, and offer a taste of their teaching style and scope. Each day's teaching concludes with a recap summarizing the main points for reflection.
The interdependent elements of Lamrim Year are designed to support meditators of various capabilities in establishing and maintaining regular lamrim study and practice until stable realizations are achieved. The text closely follows the lamrim outline in the renowned book, Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand, by Pabongka Rinpoche.
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LAMA THUBTEN YESHE was born in Tibet in 1935. At the age of six, he entered Sera Monastery, where he studied until 1959, when the Chinese invasion forced him into exile in India. In 1967 he and Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche went to Nepal, where they established the renowned Kopan Monastery. In 1974 the Lamas began teaching in the West and created a worldwide network of Buddhist centers—the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition. After an intense decade of imparting a wide variety of incredible teachings and establishing one FPMT activity after another, Lama Yeshe passed away in 1984. He was reborn in Spain in 1985.
LAMA THUBTEN ZOPA RINPOCHE was born in Thangme, Nepal, in 1945. At the age of three he was recognized as the reincarnation of the Lawudo Lama. From 1956 to 1959 he studied at Domo Monastery in Tibet. He then fled Chinese oppression in Tibet and continued his study and practice in Tibetan refugee camps in India, where he met Lama Yeshe (1935–1984), who became his principal teacher. In 1969 the Lamas began teaching Buddhism to Westerners at their Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal, and in 1974 began traveling the world to spread the Dharma. In 1975 they founded the FPMT, an international Buddhist organization that now numbers more than 160 centers and related activities in some 40 countries worldwide.
ALISON MURDOCH first encountered Tibetan Buddhism at Kopan Monastery in Nepal in 1987 and has worked for the FPMT almost continuously since then, including as director of Jamyang Buddhist Centre London, director of the Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom, and as a board member of FPMT Inc. She led on the creation of the Universal Education publication, app and study program 16 Guidelines for Life, and has been a regular Buddhist contributor to BBC Radio. Alison and her husband Simon live in Somerset, UK, where they run The Good Heart, a local center dedicated to exploring kindness.
SANDRA SMITH, BCmn, met Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche in New Zealand in 1975, and joined the community at Chenrezig Institute in Queensland, Australia, later that year. Sandra was director of Chenrezig Institute from 2004–06 and FPMT Australia’s national coordinator and tour coordinator from 2007–08. She compiled and edited children’s booklets for FPMT, including Meditations for Children and Plays for Children, and has written numerous feature articles for Australian publications. Sandra commenced work as a web and general editor for Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive in 2009 and manages Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Online Advice Book at LamaYeshe.com.
