Overview of SESSION
DATE: 2026 / 2027: Year 1
Term 1: September 19th to November 28th 2026
Over a period of two years, the Ngöndro Lamrim Training (NLRT) offers 16 months of training in the common and uncommon preliminary practices. The training is designed to generate the motivation that supports the development of calm abiding, special insight, and tantra. By cultivating the inner qualities needed to ease unskillful patterns of mind that are the cause of hindrances on the path, it facilitates deep transformation.
An excellent preparation for the FPMT In depth meditation training (IDMT)
LOCATION: Recordings are released weekly
LEVEL: Buddhist Preliminary Practices
About the Course:
The Lamrim — "Stages of the Path" in Tibetan — is a systematic presentation of the entire Buddhist path to Awakening, written by the great Tibetan master Je Tsongkhapa in the 14th and early 15th century, based on writings of the Indian master Atisha. It arranges every essential teaching of the Buddha into a single, coherent, graduated sequence tailored to your mind, exactly as it is right now. Its true power lies not in study alone, but in practice. Each teaching is carefully arranged to meet the mind where it is and guide it—step by step—toward genuine change.
The uncommon preliminary practices (ngöndro) are powerful methods to purify the mind and prepare it for lasting transformation.
Over the first eleven months the common foundations, renunciation, bodhicitta, and the view of emptiness, are explored based on the Lamrim. For the remaining five months the focus is on the uncommon practices, Vajrasattva purification, mandala offerings, and guru yoga. Weekly sessions each introduce a new topic that examines different ways to meditate and why, in combination with a guided meditation.
The training helps establish a consistent daily meditative practice in supports of its overall aim: to engage in contemplative meditation in a way that genuinely transforms the mind's outlook on the world and gives one's life a new direction. Students gain a deep understanding of how to accumulate merit and purify unskillful karma while cultivating a healthy relationship with the Three Jewels and their teacher. The emphasis is on learning to meditate in a personally tailored way, in accordance with one’s psychological makeup and life conditions.
The Ngondro Lamrim Training teaching sessions are pre-recorded.
Each week, a 90-minute teaching together with a guided meditation are uploaded. On four other days, advanced students contribute additional guided meditations. The teacher, Venerable Gendun, offers regular online Q&A sessions. For those who have already studied the Lamrim or the FPMT Basic Program, the training also offers specialized opportunities to learn how to guide others in meditation.
Year 1: Definite Emergence and Mind of Awakening
Prepare the mind for śamatha, vipaśyanā, and tantra
Explore renunciation and bodhicitta, the first two Principles of the Path
Develop genuine urgency through Lamrim contemplation
Cultivate the aspiration to Awakening for all beings
Ngondro Lamrim Taining is also part of The Buddha Project led by Venerable Losang Gendun. You can find out more about Venerable Gendun, the course and who it is suitable for on our Ngondro Lamrim Training webpage
If you have any questions you would like to ask before registering please email our In Depth Meditation Coordinator Marie Odile on idmt@jamyangleeds.co.uk
All materials for the course are provided to registered students.
Donations:
Generosity is one of the cornerstones of the Buddhist path. Donations help support both the centre and The Buddha Project as well as providing a donation for the teachings to Venerable Gendun. There are different levels depending on your income. There are three terms a year, each approximately 3 months long
As the course is a collaboration with other FPMT centres it is not possible to offer this as part of our Jamyang Leeds membership programme.
For those with a regular income the recommended donation is £95 per term
The sponsorhsip level is £115 per term
Ordained Sangha are free
If this isn’t affordable please do register, we never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial reasons and we can agree a donation that is affordable for you at the current time. Please email Marie-Odile our IDMT Coordinator idmt@jamyangleeds.co.uk if you would like to chat.