Start your spiritual learning

• Language: English & Chinese
• Prerequisites: Buddhism for Beginners ( >75% attendance)
• Duration: 1 year

• Schedule:

  • Wednesday (new term starts February 25, 2026)
  • 8.30 pm – 10.30 pm
  • Google Meet
• Core text: Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand by Pabongka Rinpoche

• Members: Free
• Non-members: RM50 per month

• History, lineage, preliminaries
• Lamrim preparatory practices, prayers, visualisations
• Foundations of practice: Guru devotion and benefits of human rebirth
• Small Scope: Advantages of practising, contemplating mortality, lower realms, karma

• Feb 25  Introduction to Lamrim
• Mar 4   The greatness of the authors (Part 1)
• Mar 11  The greatness of the authors (Part 2)
• Mar 18  The greatness of the Dharma
• Mar 25  How to study and teach the Dharma
• Apr 1  Cleaning the room and setting up an altar
• Apr 8  Arranging offerings
• Apr 15  Adjusting the body and motivation
• Apr 22  The refuge visualisation (Part 1)
• Apr 29  The refuge visualisation (Part 2)
• May 6  Petitioning the merit field (Part 1)
• May 13  Petitioning the merit field (Part 2)
• May 20  The seven-limbed prayer + guided practice
• May 27  Requests to the lineage lamas
• Jun 3  Devoting yourself to a spiritual guide (Part 1)
• Jun 17  Devoting yourself to a spiritual guide (Part 2)
• Jul 8  The optimum human rebirth (Part 1)
• Jul 15  The optimum human rebirth (Part 2)
• Aug 12  Remembering death (Part 1)
• Aug 19  Remembering death (Part 2) + guided practice
• Aug 26  The suffering of the lower realms (Part 1)
• Sep 2  The suffering of the lower realms (Part 2)
• Sep 23  The suffering of the lower realms (Part 3)
• Sep 30  Taking refuge in the Three Jewels (Part 1)
• Oct 7  Taking refuge in the Three Jewels (Part 2)
• Oct 14  Taking refuge in the Three Jewels (Part 3) + guided practice
• Oct 28  Observing the law of cause and effect (Part 1)
• Nov 11  Observing the law of cause and effect (Part 2)
• Nov 18  Observing the law of cause and effect (Part 3)

Lamrim is a Tibetan word meaning ‘Stages of the Path’. It refers not to simply one text but a set of scriptures of the same genre, which encompass the entire central body of Buddhist practice.

Buddhism as taught by the historical Buddha over 2,500 years ago is all about self-transformation. It is about becoming a better person who is in control over your own happiness. It is about taking control of your ultimate destiny. This ultimate destiny is about achieving ‘enlightenment’ which is a word many of us may not fully understand yet; and it is also about the smaller everyday transformations on the journey to enlightenment.

The Lamrim scriptures arose from the elucidations of Buddha’s teachings by great masters of the past, compiled into a graduated path that provides clear, step-by-step advice on how to progress from our current state of mind marked by suffering to the state of true happiness. They set out the path of practice from the most basic to the most advanced stages for a practitioner to achieve the highest level in Buddhism – the exalted state of an enlightened being, also known as a Buddha. This is something that all Buddhists aspire to achieve.

To practise the Buddhist path is to become more compassionate to ourselves, our loved ones and others — day by day. When we study and practise the Lamrim, we will develop the qualities of kindness, generosity, honesty, patience, wisdom and virtue.

When we cultivate these qualities, we will find ourselves better equipped with the tools we need to engage in daily life, sheltered against the raging storm of our karma which seeks to knock us off-kilter at every turn. In this way, the Lamrim helps us overcome our self-created suffering and transform our lives in ways that we may have never thought possible.

Through the practice of Lamrim, we will also find our relationships with our partners, family, friends and colleagues transforming for the better too. All this arises from the development of our mind, through the use of meditation. This is why Buddha’s teachings are so revolutionary.

The Lamrim however is extra special compared to other teachings. This is because you do not need to study the Lamrim scriptures for years and years before you are able to practise meditation and gain spiritual realisations. With the Lamrim, you can practise and gain realisations as you study.