IDMT Year Four: The Vajra Ground: Mahamudra and Kriya Tantra

In this culminating fourth year of our journey, our path turns inward to the mind itself—its empty, luminous nature—and outward to the transformative methods of tantra, where the naturally pure nature of our perception is recognized as the very ground of awakening. As always, the year will start with generating the mind of awakening, using evocative instructions ranging from Langri Thangpa to Nāgārjuna and Lord Buddha in the famous Bodhisattvapiṭaka. This mind generation we’ll cultivate through the four immeasurable thoughts and the support of calm abiding. Illuminated by the life stories of the masters of the Gelug Mahāmudrā lineage and beyond, we’ll explore its roots in the history of the early Indian Mahāsiddhas, such as Saraha and Tilopa, through the Kagyü master Gampopa’s and Je Tsongkhapa’s Mañjuśrī lineage up to Paṇchen Losang Chökyi Gyaltsen’s Highway of the Conquerors and its perspective on this practice. In Sūtra Mahāmudrā we will practice resting attention in the empty nature of awareness, recognizing its clarity and openness as inseparable.

Kriyā Tantra offers a complementary method. Rather than suppress the ordinary, narrow self-narrative that we impose on ourselves and our world, it substitutes for it an extraordinary perspective of pure view. Occasionally, by way of introduction, we’ll also taste practices from the higher tantras—glimpsing how afflictive emotions can be met as innate wisdom, and how the dissolution of the death process opens onto the innate mind of clear light. The structured practices of generation and recitation become a rehearsal for transformation, training perception to meet appearances as pure. These methods rest on a relationship. We will therefore examine the practice of guru devotion candidly—both as the means by which the lineage’s realization is transmitted and as a practice with real pitfalls, requiring discernment as much as trust. Through the Ganden Lha Gyāma, the Yoga of the inseparability of guru and Avalokiteśvara, and supporting sādhanas, devotion is approached not as deference but as the ethical road toward the state of Vajradhara: the full integration of wisdom and method.

This final year is an invitation to let realization ripen into a way of being. Grounded in bodhicitta and the four immeasurables, sustained by the preliminary practices, and held by the strength of community, we learn to meet the mind without grasping and to meet the world as pure appearance. Our aim is not to accumulate practices, but to bring the path to maturity—wisdom and compassion no longer cultivated separately, but lived as one.

This four-year online course provides students with long term, in-depth support in their meditative development.

The teacher and course developer is Venerable Losang Gendun. He has trained extensively in meditation in both Theravada and Mahayana Traditions

The In Depth Meditation Training course 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 FPMT In-Depth Meditation 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

The zoom link and all materials for the course are provided to registered students.

Donations:

Generosity is one of the cornerstones of the Buddhist path. With your donation we support The Buddha Project and we keep our centre going for the benefit of all sentient beings.

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.

• The recommended donation per calendar month is £45.

• If you are able to practice generosity and sponsor other students we recommend £58 per calendar month.

• If you are on a reduced income it is £31 per calendar month.

There is also the option to donate annually.

If none of the above options are affordable please do still register, we never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial reasons and we can agree a donation that is affordable for you right now. Please email Marie Odile our IDMT Coordinator idmt@jamyangleeds.co.uk if you would like to chat.

IDMT Year Four: The Vajra Ground: Mahamudra and Kriya Tantra

In this culminating fourth year of our journey, our path turns inward to the mind itself—its empty, luminous nature—and outward to the transformative methods of tantra, where the naturally pure nature of our perception is recognized as the very ground of awakening. As always, the year will start with generating the mind of awakening, using evocative instructions ranging from Langri Thangpa to Nāgārjuna and Lord Buddha in the famous Bodhisattvapiṭaka. This mind generation we’ll cultivate through the four immeasurable thoughts and the support of calm abiding. Illuminated by the life stories of the masters of the Gelug Mahāmudrā lineage and beyond, we’ll explore its roots in the history of the early Indian Mahāsiddhas, such as Saraha and Tilopa, through the Kagyü master Gampopa’s and Je Tsongkhapa’s Mañjuśrī lineage up to Paṇchen Losang Chökyi Gyaltsen’s Highway of the Conquerors and its perspective on this practice. In Sūtra Mahāmudrā we will practice resting attention in the empty nature of awareness, recognizing its clarity and openness as inseparable.

Kriyā Tantra offers a complementary method. Rather than suppress the ordinary, narrow self-narrative that we impose on ourselves and our world, it substitutes for it an extraordinary perspective of pure view. Occasionally, by way of introduction, we’ll also taste practices from the higher tantras—glimpsing how afflictive emotions can be met as innate wisdom, and how the dissolution of the death process opens onto the innate mind of clear light. The structured practices of generation and recitation become a rehearsal for transformation, training perception to meet appearances as pure. These methods rest on a relationship. We will therefore examine the practice of guru devotion candidly—both as the means by which the lineage’s realization is transmitted and as a practice with real pitfalls, requiring discernment as much as trust. Through the Ganden Lha Gyāma, the Yoga of the inseparability of guru and Avalokiteśvara, and supporting sādhanas, devotion is approached not as deference but as the ethical road toward the state of Vajradhara: the full integration of wisdom and method.

This final year is an invitation to let realization ripen into a way of being. Grounded in bodhicitta and the four immeasurables, sustained by the preliminary practices, and held by the strength of community, we learn to meet the mind without grasping and to meet the world as pure appearance. Our aim is not to accumulate practices, but to bring the path to maturity—wisdom and compassion no longer cultivated separately, but lived as one.

This four-year online course provides students with long term, in-depth support in their meditative development.

The teacher and course developer is Venerable Losang Gendun. He has trained extensively in meditation in both Theravada and Mahayana Traditions

The In Depth Meditation Training course 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 FPMT In-Depth Meditation 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

The zoom link and all materials for the course are provided to registered students.

Donations:

Generosity is one of the cornerstones of the Buddhist path. With your donation we support The Buddha Project and we keep our centre going for the benefit of all sentient beings.

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.

• The recommended donation per calendar month is £45.

• If you are able to practice generosity and sponsor other students we recommend £58 per calendar month.

• If you are on a reduced income it is £31 per calendar month.

There is also the option to donate annually.

If none of the above options are affordable please do still register, we never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial reasons and we can agree a donation that is affordable for you right now. Please email Marie Odile our IDMT Coordinator idmt@jamyangleeds.co.uk if you would like to chat.

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

FPMT 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 FPMT 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.

IDMT Year Four: The Vajra Ground: Mahamudra and Kriya Tantra

In this culminating fourth year of our journey, our path turns inward to the mind itself—its empty, luminous nature—and outward to the transformative methods of tantra, where the naturally pure nature of our perception is recognized as the very ground of awakening. As always, the year will start with generating the mind of awakening, using evocative instructions ranging from Langri Thangpa to Nāgārjuna and Lord Buddha in the famous Bodhisattvapiṭaka. This mind generation we’ll cultivate through the four immeasurable thoughts and the support of calm abiding. Illuminated by the life stories of the masters of the Gelug Mahāmudrā lineage and beyond, we’ll explore its roots in the history of the early Indian Mahāsiddhas, such as Saraha and Tilopa, through the Kagyü master Gampopa’s and Je Tsongkhapa’s Mañjuśrī lineage up to Paṇchen Losang Chökyi Gyaltsen’s Highway of the Conquerors and its perspective on this practice. In Sūtra Mahāmudrā we will practice resting attention in the empty nature of awareness, recognizing its clarity and openness as inseparable.

Kriyā Tantra offers a complementary method. Rather than suppress the ordinary, narrow self-narrative that we impose on ourselves and our world, it substitutes for it an extraordinary perspective of pure view. Occasionally, by way of introduction, we’ll also taste practices from the higher tantras—glimpsing how afflictive emotions can be met as innate wisdom, and how the dissolution of the death process opens onto the innate mind of clear light. The structured practices of generation and recitation become a rehearsal for transformation, training perception to meet appearances as pure. These methods rest on a relationship. We will therefore examine the practice of guru devotion candidly—both as the means by which the lineage’s realization is transmitted and as a practice with real pitfalls, requiring discernment as much as trust. Through the Ganden Lha Gyāma, the Yoga of the inseparability of guru and Avalokiteśvara, and supporting sādhanas, devotion is approached not as deference but as the ethical road toward the state of Vajradhara: the full integration of wisdom and method.

This final year is an invitation to let realization ripen into a way of being. Grounded in bodhicitta and the four immeasurables, sustained by the preliminary practices, and held by the strength of community, we learn to meet the mind without grasping and to meet the world as pure appearance. Our aim is not to accumulate practices, but to bring the path to maturity—wisdom and compassion no longer cultivated separately, but lived as one.

This four-year online course provides students with long term, in-depth support in their meditative development.

The teacher and course developer is Venerable Losang Gendun. He has trained extensively in meditation in both Theravada and Mahayana Traditions

The In Depth Meditation Training course 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 FPMT In-Depth Meditation 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

The zoom link and all materials for the course are provided to registered students.

Donations:

Generosity is one of the cornerstones of the Buddhist path. With your donation we support The Buddha Project and we keep our centre going for the benefit of all sentient beings.

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.

• The recommended donation per calendar month is £45.

• If you are able to practice generosity and sponsor other students we recommend £58 per calendar month.

• If you are on a reduced income it is £31 per calendar month.

There is also the option to donate annually.

If none of the above options are affordable please do still register, we never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial reasons and we can agree a donation that is affordable for you right now. Please email Marie Odile our IDMT Coordinator idmt@jamyangleeds.co.uk if you would like to chat.

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.

IDMT Year Four: The Vajra Ground: Mahamudra and Kriya Tantra

In this culminating fourth year of our journey, our path turns inward to the mind itself—its empty, luminous nature—and outward to the transformative methods of tantra, where the naturally pure nature of our perception is recognized as the very ground of awakening. As always, the year will start with generating the mind of awakening, using evocative instructions ranging from Langri Thangpa to Nāgārjuna and Lord Buddha in the famous Bodhisattvapiṭaka. This mind generation we’ll cultivate through the four immeasurable thoughts and the support of calm abiding. Illuminated by the life stories of the masters of the Gelug Mahāmudrā lineage and beyond, we’ll explore its roots in the history of the early Indian Mahāsiddhas, such as Saraha and Tilopa, through the Kagyü master Gampopa’s and Je Tsongkhapa’s Mañjuśrī lineage up to Paṇchen Losang Chökyi Gyaltsen’s Highway of the Conquerors and its perspective on this practice. In Sūtra Mahāmudrā we will practice resting attention in the empty nature of awareness, recognizing its clarity and openness as inseparable.

Kriyā Tantra offers a complementary method. Rather than suppress the ordinary, narrow self-narrative that we impose on ourselves and our world, it substitutes for it an extraordinary perspective of pure view. Occasionally, by way of introduction, we’ll also taste practices from the higher tantras—glimpsing how afflictive emotions can be met as innate wisdom, and how the dissolution of the death process opens onto the innate mind of clear light. The structured practices of generation and recitation become a rehearsal for transformation, training perception to meet appearances as pure. These methods rest on a relationship. We will therefore examine the practice of guru devotion candidly—both as the means by which the lineage’s realization is transmitted and as a practice with real pitfalls, requiring discernment as much as trust. Through the Ganden Lha Gyāma, the Yoga of the inseparability of guru and Avalokiteśvara, and supporting sādhanas, devotion is approached not as deference but as the ethical road toward the state of Vajradhara: the full integration of wisdom and method.

This final year is an invitation to let realization ripen into a way of being. Grounded in bodhicitta and the four immeasurables, sustained by the preliminary practices, and held by the strength of community, we learn to meet the mind without grasping and to meet the world as pure appearance. Our aim is not to accumulate practices, but to bring the path to maturity—wisdom and compassion no longer cultivated separately, but lived as one.

This four-year online course provides students with long term, in-depth support in their meditative development.

The teacher and course developer is Venerable Losang Gendun. He has trained extensively in meditation in both Theravada and Mahayana Traditions

The In Depth Meditation Training course 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 FPMT In-Depth Meditation 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

The zoom link and all materials for the course are provided to registered students.

Donations:

Generosity is one of the cornerstones of the Buddhist path. With your donation we support The Buddha Project and we keep our centre going for the benefit of all sentient beings.

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.

• The recommended donation per calendar month is £45.

• If you are able to practice generosity and sponsor other students we recommend £58 per calendar month.

• If you are on a reduced income it is £31 per calendar month.

There is also the option to donate annually.

If none of the above options are affordable please do still register, we never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial reasons and we can agree a donation that is affordable for you right now. Please email Marie Odile our IDMT Coordinator idmt@jamyangleeds.co.uk if you would like to chat.

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

FPMT 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 FPMT 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.

IDMT Year Four: The Vajra Ground: Mahamudra and Kriya Tantra

In this culminating fourth year of our journey, our path turns inward to the mind itself—its empty, luminous nature—and outward to the transformative methods of tantra, where the naturally pure nature of our perception is recognized as the very ground of awakening. As always, the year will start with generating the mind of awakening, using evocative instructions ranging from Langri Thangpa to Nāgārjuna and Lord Buddha in the famous Bodhisattvapiṭaka. This mind generation we’ll cultivate through the four immeasurable thoughts and the support of calm abiding. Illuminated by the life stories of the masters of the Gelug Mahāmudrā lineage and beyond, we’ll explore its roots in the history of the early Indian Mahāsiddhas, such as Saraha and Tilopa, through the Kagyü master Gampopa’s and Je Tsongkhapa’s Mañjuśrī lineage up to Paṇchen Losang Chökyi Gyaltsen’s Highway of the Conquerors and its perspective on this practice. In Sūtra Mahāmudrā we will practice resting attention in the empty nature of awareness, recognizing its clarity and openness as inseparable.

Kriyā Tantra offers a complementary method. Rather than suppress the ordinary, narrow self-narrative that we impose on ourselves and our world, it substitutes for it an extraordinary perspective of pure view. Occasionally, by way of introduction, we’ll also taste practices from the higher tantras—glimpsing how afflictive emotions can be met as innate wisdom, and how the dissolution of the death process opens onto the innate mind of clear light. The structured practices of generation and recitation become a rehearsal for transformation, training perception to meet appearances as pure. These methods rest on a relationship. We will therefore examine the practice of guru devotion candidly—both as the means by which the lineage’s realization is transmitted and as a practice with real pitfalls, requiring discernment as much as trust. Through the Ganden Lha Gyāma, the Yoga of the inseparability of guru and Avalokiteśvara, and supporting sādhanas, devotion is approached not as deference but as the ethical road toward the state of Vajradhara: the full integration of wisdom and method.

This final year is an invitation to let realization ripen into a way of being. Grounded in bodhicitta and the four immeasurables, sustained by the preliminary practices, and held by the strength of community, we learn to meet the mind without grasping and to meet the world as pure appearance. Our aim is not to accumulate practices, but to bring the path to maturity—wisdom and compassion no longer cultivated separately, but lived as one.

This four-year online course provides students with long term, in-depth support in their meditative development.

The teacher and course developer is Venerable Losang Gendun. He has trained extensively in meditation in both Theravada and Mahayana Traditions

The In Depth Meditation Training course 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 FPMT In-Depth Meditation 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

The zoom link and all materials for the course are provided to registered students.

Donations:

Generosity is one of the cornerstones of the Buddhist path. With your donation we support The Buddha Project and we keep our centre going for the benefit of all sentient beings.

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.

• The recommended donation per calendar month is £45.

• If you are able to practice generosity and sponsor other students we recommend £58 per calendar month.

• If you are on a reduced income it is £31 per calendar month.

There is also the option to donate annually.

If none of the above options are affordable please do still register, we never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial reasons and we can agree a donation that is affordable for you right now. Please email Marie Odile our IDMT Coordinator idmt@jamyangleeds.co.uk if you would like to chat.

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

FPMT 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 FPMT 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.

IDMT Year Four: The Vajra Ground: Mahamudra and Kriya Tantra

In this culminating fourth year of our journey, our path turns inward to the mind itself—its empty, luminous nature—and outward to the transformative methods of tantra, where the naturally pure nature of our perception is recognized as the very ground of awakening. As always, the year will start with generating the mind of awakening, using evocative instructions ranging from Langri Thangpa to Nāgārjuna and Lord Buddha in the famous Bodhisattvapiṭaka. This mind generation we’ll cultivate through the four immeasurable thoughts and the support of calm abiding. Illuminated by the life stories of the masters of the Gelug Mahāmudrā lineage and beyond, we’ll explore its roots in the history of the early Indian Mahāsiddhas, such as Saraha and Tilopa, through the Kagyü master Gampopa’s and Je Tsongkhapa’s Mañjuśrī lineage up to Paṇchen Losang Chökyi Gyaltsen’s Highway of the Conquerors and its perspective on this practice. In Sūtra Mahāmudrā we will practice resting attention in the empty nature of awareness, recognizing its clarity and openness as inseparable.

Kriyā Tantra offers a complementary method. Rather than suppress the ordinary, narrow self-narrative that we impose on ourselves and our world, it substitutes for it an extraordinary perspective of pure view. Occasionally, by way of introduction, we’ll also taste practices from the higher tantras—glimpsing how afflictive emotions can be met as innate wisdom, and how the dissolution of the death process opens onto the innate mind of clear light. The structured practices of generation and recitation become a rehearsal for transformation, training perception to meet appearances as pure. These methods rest on a relationship. We will therefore examine the practice of guru devotion candidly—both as the means by which the lineage’s realization is transmitted and as a practice with real pitfalls, requiring discernment as much as trust. Through the Ganden Lha Gyāma, the Yoga of the inseparability of guru and Avalokiteśvara, and supporting sādhanas, devotion is approached not as deference but as the ethical road toward the state of Vajradhara: the full integration of wisdom and method.

This final year is an invitation to let realization ripen into a way of being. Grounded in bodhicitta and the four immeasurables, sustained by the preliminary practices, and held by the strength of community, we learn to meet the mind without grasping and to meet the world as pure appearance. Our aim is not to accumulate practices, but to bring the path to maturity—wisdom and compassion no longer cultivated separately, but lived as one.

This four-year online course provides students with long term, in-depth support in their meditative development.

The teacher and course developer is Venerable Losang Gendun. He has trained extensively in meditation in both Theravada and Mahayana Traditions

The In Depth Meditation Training course 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 FPMT In-Depth Meditation 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

The zoom link and all materials for the course are provided to registered students.

Donations:

Generosity is one of the cornerstones of the Buddhist path. With your donation we support The Buddha Project and we keep our centre going for the benefit of all sentient beings.

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.

• The recommended donation per calendar month is £45.

• If you are able to practice generosity and sponsor other students we recommend £58 per calendar month.

• If you are on a reduced income it is £31 per calendar month.

There is also the option to donate annually.

If none of the above options are affordable please do still register, we never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial reasons and we can agree a donation that is affordable for you right now. Please email Marie Odile our IDMT Coordinator idmt@jamyangleeds.co.uk if you would like to chat.

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

FPMT 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 FPMT 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.

IDMT Year Four: The Vajra Ground: Mahamudra and Kriya Tantra

In this culminating fourth year of our journey, our path turns inward to the mind itself—its empty, luminous nature—and outward to the transformative methods of tantra, where the naturally pure nature of our perception is recognized as the very ground of awakening. As always, the year will start with generating the mind of awakening, using evocative instructions ranging from Langri Thangpa to Nāgārjuna and Lord Buddha in the famous Bodhisattvapiṭaka. This mind generation we’ll cultivate through the four immeasurable thoughts and the support of calm abiding. Illuminated by the life stories of the masters of the Gelug Mahāmudrā lineage and beyond, we’ll explore its roots in the history of the early Indian Mahāsiddhas, such as Saraha and Tilopa, through the Kagyü master Gampopa’s and Je Tsongkhapa’s Mañjuśrī lineage up to Paṇchen Losang Chökyi Gyaltsen’s Highway of the Conquerors and its perspective on this practice. In Sūtra Mahāmudrā we will practice resting attention in the empty nature of awareness, recognizing its clarity and openness as inseparable.

Kriyā Tantra offers a complementary method. Rather than suppress the ordinary, narrow self-narrative that we impose on ourselves and our world, it substitutes for it an extraordinary perspective of pure view. Occasionally, by way of introduction, we’ll also taste practices from the higher tantras—glimpsing how afflictive emotions can be met as innate wisdom, and how the dissolution of the death process opens onto the innate mind of clear light. The structured practices of generation and recitation become a rehearsal for transformation, training perception to meet appearances as pure. These methods rest on a relationship. We will therefore examine the practice of guru devotion candidly—both as the means by which the lineage’s realization is transmitted and as a practice with real pitfalls, requiring discernment as much as trust. Through the Ganden Lha Gyāma, the Yoga of the inseparability of guru and Avalokiteśvara, and supporting sādhanas, devotion is approached not as deference but as the ethical road toward the state of Vajradhara: the full integration of wisdom and method.

This final year is an invitation to let realization ripen into a way of being. Grounded in bodhicitta and the four immeasurables, sustained by the preliminary practices, and held by the strength of community, we learn to meet the mind without grasping and to meet the world as pure appearance. Our aim is not to accumulate practices, but to bring the path to maturity—wisdom and compassion no longer cultivated separately, but lived as one.

This four-year online course provides students with long term, in-depth support in their meditative development.

The teacher and course developer is Venerable Losang Gendun. He has trained extensively in meditation in both Theravada and Mahayana Traditions

The In Depth Meditation Training course 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 FPMT In-Depth Meditation 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

The zoom link and all materials for the course are provided to registered students.

Donations:

Generosity is one of the cornerstones of the Buddhist path. With your donation we support The Buddha Project and we keep our centre going for the benefit of all sentient beings.

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.

• The recommended donation per calendar month is £45.

• If you are able to practice generosity and sponsor other students we recommend £58 per calendar month.

• If you are on a reduced income it is £31 per calendar month.

There is also the option to donate annually.

If none of the above options are affordable please do still register, we never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial reasons and we can agree a donation that is affordable for you right now. Please email Marie Odile our IDMT Coordinator idmt@jamyangleeds.co.uk if you would like to chat.

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

FPMT 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 FPMT 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.

IDMT Year Four: The Vajra Ground: Mahamudra and Kriya Tantra

In this culminating fourth year of our journey, our path turns inward to the mind itself—its empty, luminous nature—and outward to the transformative methods of tantra, where the naturally pure nature of our perception is recognized as the very ground of awakening. As always, the year will start with generating the mind of awakening, using evocative instructions ranging from Langri Thangpa to Nāgārjuna and Lord Buddha in the famous Bodhisattvapiṭaka. This mind generation we’ll cultivate through the four immeasurable thoughts and the support of calm abiding. Illuminated by the life stories of the masters of the Gelug Mahāmudrā lineage and beyond, we’ll explore its roots in the history of the early Indian Mahāsiddhas, such as Saraha and Tilopa, through the Kagyü master Gampopa’s and Je Tsongkhapa’s Mañjuśrī lineage up to Paṇchen Losang Chökyi Gyaltsen’s Highway of the Conquerors and its perspective on this practice. In Sūtra Mahāmudrā we will practice resting attention in the empty nature of awareness, recognizing its clarity and openness as inseparable.

Kriyā Tantra offers a complementary method. Rather than suppress the ordinary, narrow self-narrative that we impose on ourselves and our world, it substitutes for it an extraordinary perspective of pure view. Occasionally, by way of introduction, we’ll also taste practices from the higher tantras—glimpsing how afflictive emotions can be met as innate wisdom, and how the dissolution of the death process opens onto the innate mind of clear light. The structured practices of generation and recitation become a rehearsal for transformation, training perception to meet appearances as pure. These methods rest on a relationship. We will therefore examine the practice of guru devotion candidly—both as the means by which the lineage’s realization is transmitted and as a practice with real pitfalls, requiring discernment as much as trust. Through the Ganden Lha Gyāma, the Yoga of the inseparability of guru and Avalokiteśvara, and supporting sādhanas, devotion is approached not as deference but as the ethical road toward the state of Vajradhara: the full integration of wisdom and method.

This final year is an invitation to let realization ripen into a way of being. Grounded in bodhicitta and the four immeasurables, sustained by the preliminary practices, and held by the strength of community, we learn to meet the mind without grasping and to meet the world as pure appearance. Our aim is not to accumulate practices, but to bring the path to maturity—wisdom and compassion no longer cultivated separately, but lived as one.

This four-year online course provides students with long term, in-depth support in their meditative development.

The teacher and course developer is Venerable Losang Gendun. He has trained extensively in meditation in both Theravada and Mahayana Traditions

The In Depth Meditation Training course 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 FPMT In-Depth Meditation 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

The zoom link and all materials for the course are provided to registered students.

Donations:

Generosity is one of the cornerstones of the Buddhist path. With your donation we support The Buddha Project and we keep our centre going for the benefit of all sentient beings.

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.

• The recommended donation per calendar month is £45.

• If you are able to practice generosity and sponsor other students we recommend £58 per calendar month.

• If you are on a reduced income it is £31 per calendar month.

There is also the option to donate annually.

If none of the above options are affordable please do still register, we never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial reasons and we can agree a donation that is affordable for you right now. Please email Marie Odile our IDMT Coordinator idmt@jamyangleeds.co.uk if you would like to chat.

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

FPMT 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 FPMT 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.

IDMT Year Four: The Vajra Ground: Mahamudra and Kriya Tantra

In this culminating fourth year of our journey, our path turns inward to the mind itself—its empty, luminous nature—and outward to the transformative methods of tantra, where the naturally pure nature of our perception is recognized as the very ground of awakening. As always, the year will start with generating the mind of awakening, using evocative instructions ranging from Langri Thangpa to Nāgārjuna and Lord Buddha in the famous Bodhisattvapiṭaka. This mind generation we’ll cultivate through the four immeasurable thoughts and the support of calm abiding. Illuminated by the life stories of the masters of the Gelug Mahāmudrā lineage and beyond, we’ll explore its roots in the history of the early Indian Mahāsiddhas, such as Saraha and Tilopa, through the Kagyü master Gampopa’s and Je Tsongkhapa’s Mañjuśrī lineage up to Paṇchen Losang Chökyi Gyaltsen’s Highway of the Conquerors and its perspective on this practice. In Sūtra Mahāmudrā we will practice resting attention in the empty nature of awareness, recognizing its clarity and openness as inseparable.

Kriyā Tantra offers a complementary method. Rather than suppress the ordinary, narrow self-narrative that we impose on ourselves and our world, it substitutes for it an extraordinary perspective of pure view. Occasionally, by way of introduction, we’ll also taste practices from the higher tantras—glimpsing how afflictive emotions can be met as innate wisdom, and how the dissolution of the death process opens onto the innate mind of clear light. The structured practices of generation and recitation become a rehearsal for transformation, training perception to meet appearances as pure. These methods rest on a relationship. We will therefore examine the practice of guru devotion candidly—both as the means by which the lineage’s realization is transmitted and as a practice with real pitfalls, requiring discernment as much as trust. Through the Ganden Lha Gyāma, the Yoga of the inseparability of guru and Avalokiteśvara, and supporting sādhanas, devotion is approached not as deference but as the ethical road toward the state of Vajradhara: the full integration of wisdom and method.

This final year is an invitation to let realization ripen into a way of being. Grounded in bodhicitta and the four immeasurables, sustained by the preliminary practices, and held by the strength of community, we learn to meet the mind without grasping and to meet the world as pure appearance. Our aim is not to accumulate practices, but to bring the path to maturity—wisdom and compassion no longer cultivated separately, but lived as one.

This four-year online course provides students with long term, in-depth support in their meditative development.

The teacher and course developer is Venerable Losang Gendun. He has trained extensively in meditation in both Theravada and Mahayana Traditions

The In Depth Meditation Training course 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 FPMT In-Depth Meditation 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

The zoom link and all materials for the course are provided to registered students.

Donations:

Generosity is one of the cornerstones of the Buddhist path. With your donation we support The Buddha Project and we keep our centre going for the benefit of all sentient beings.

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.

• The recommended donation per calendar month is £45.

• If you are able to practice generosity and sponsor other students we recommend £58 per calendar month.

• If you are on a reduced income it is £31 per calendar month.

There is also the option to donate annually.

If none of the above options are affordable please do still register, we never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial reasons and we can agree a donation that is affordable for you right now. Please email Marie Odile our IDMT Coordinator idmt@jamyangleeds.co.uk if you would like to chat.

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

FPMT 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 FPMT 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.

IDMT Year Four: The Vajra Ground: Mahamudra and Kriya Tantra

In this culminating fourth year of our journey, our path turns inward to the mind itself—its empty, luminous nature—and outward to the transformative methods of tantra, where the naturally pure nature of our perception is recognized as the very ground of awakening. As always, the year will start with generating the mind of awakening, using evocative instructions ranging from Langri Thangpa to Nāgārjuna and Lord Buddha in the famous Bodhisattvapiṭaka. This mind generation we’ll cultivate through the four immeasurable thoughts and the support of calm abiding. Illuminated by the life stories of the masters of the Gelug Mahāmudrā lineage and beyond, we’ll explore its roots in the history of the early Indian Mahāsiddhas, such as Saraha and Tilopa, through the Kagyü master Gampopa’s and Je Tsongkhapa’s Mañjuśrī lineage up to Paṇchen Losang Chökyi Gyaltsen’s Highway of the Conquerors and its perspective on this practice. In Sūtra Mahāmudrā we will practice resting attention in the empty nature of awareness, recognizing its clarity and openness as inseparable.

Kriyā Tantra offers a complementary method. Rather than suppress the ordinary, narrow self-narrative that we impose on ourselves and our world, it substitutes for it an extraordinary perspective of pure view. Occasionally, by way of introduction, we’ll also taste practices from the higher tantras—glimpsing how afflictive emotions can be met as innate wisdom, and how the dissolution of the death process opens onto the innate mind of clear light. The structured practices of generation and recitation become a rehearsal for transformation, training perception to meet appearances as pure. These methods rest on a relationship. We will therefore examine the practice of guru devotion candidly—both as the means by which the lineage’s realization is transmitted and as a practice with real pitfalls, requiring discernment as much as trust. Through the Ganden Lha Gyāma, the Yoga of the inseparability of guru and Avalokiteśvara, and supporting sādhanas, devotion is approached not as deference but as the ethical road toward the state of Vajradhara: the full integration of wisdom and method.

This final year is an invitation to let realization ripen into a way of being. Grounded in bodhicitta and the four immeasurables, sustained by the preliminary practices, and held by the strength of community, we learn to meet the mind without grasping and to meet the world as pure appearance. Our aim is not to accumulate practices, but to bring the path to maturity—wisdom and compassion no longer cultivated separately, but lived as one.

This four-year online course provides students with long term, in-depth support in their meditative development.

The teacher and course developer is Venerable Losang Gendun. He has trained extensively in meditation in both Theravada and Mahayana Traditions

The In Depth Meditation Training course 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 FPMT In-Depth Meditation 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

The zoom link and all materials for the course are provided to registered students.

Donations:

Generosity is one of the cornerstones of the Buddhist path. With your donation we support The Buddha Project and we keep our centre going for the benefit of all sentient beings.

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.

• The recommended donation per calendar month is £45.

• If you are able to practice generosity and sponsor other students we recommend £58 per calendar month.

• If you are on a reduced income it is £31 per calendar month.

There is also the option to donate annually.

If none of the above options are affordable please do still register, we never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial reasons and we can agree a donation that is affordable for you right now. Please email Marie Odile our IDMT Coordinator idmt@jamyangleeds.co.uk if you would like to chat.

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

FPMT 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 FPMT 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.

IDMT Year Four: The Vajra Ground: Mahamudra and Kriya Tantra

In this culminating fourth year of our journey, our path turns inward to the mind itself—its empty, luminous nature—and outward to the transformative methods of tantra, where the naturally pure nature of our perception is recognized as the very ground of awakening. As always, the year will start with generating the mind of awakening, using evocative instructions ranging from Langri Thangpa to Nāgārjuna and Lord Buddha in the famous Bodhisattvapiṭaka. This mind generation we’ll cultivate through the four immeasurable thoughts and the support of calm abiding. Illuminated by the life stories of the masters of the Gelug Mahāmudrā lineage and beyond, we’ll explore its roots in the history of the early Indian Mahāsiddhas, such as Saraha and Tilopa, through the Kagyü master Gampopa’s and Je Tsongkhapa’s Mañjuśrī lineage up to Paṇchen Losang Chökyi Gyaltsen’s Highway of the Conquerors and its perspective on this practice. In Sūtra Mahāmudrā we will practice resting attention in the empty nature of awareness, recognizing its clarity and openness as inseparable.

Kriyā Tantra offers a complementary method. Rather than suppress the ordinary, narrow self-narrative that we impose on ourselves and our world, it substitutes for it an extraordinary perspective of pure view. Occasionally, by way of introduction, we’ll also taste practices from the higher tantras—glimpsing how afflictive emotions can be met as innate wisdom, and how the dissolution of the death process opens onto the innate mind of clear light. The structured practices of generation and recitation become a rehearsal for transformation, training perception to meet appearances as pure. These methods rest on a relationship. We will therefore examine the practice of guru devotion candidly—both as the means by which the lineage’s realization is transmitted and as a practice with real pitfalls, requiring discernment as much as trust. Through the Ganden Lha Gyāma, the Yoga of the inseparability of guru and Avalokiteśvara, and supporting sādhanas, devotion is approached not as deference but as the ethical road toward the state of Vajradhara: the full integration of wisdom and method.

This final year is an invitation to let realization ripen into a way of being. Grounded in bodhicitta and the four immeasurables, sustained by the preliminary practices, and held by the strength of community, we learn to meet the mind without grasping and to meet the world as pure appearance. Our aim is not to accumulate practices, but to bring the path to maturity—wisdom and compassion no longer cultivated separately, but lived as one.

This four-year online course provides students with long term, in-depth support in their meditative development.

The teacher and course developer is Venerable Losang Gendun. He has trained extensively in meditation in both Theravada and Mahayana Traditions

The In Depth Meditation Training course 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 FPMT In-Depth Meditation 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

The zoom link and all materials for the course are provided to registered students.

Donations:

Generosity is one of the cornerstones of the Buddhist path. With your donation we support The Buddha Project and we keep our centre going for the benefit of all sentient beings.

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.

• The recommended donation per calendar month is £45.

• If you are able to practice generosity and sponsor other students we recommend £58 per calendar month.

• If you are on a reduced income it is £31 per calendar month.

There is also the option to donate annually.

If none of the above options are affordable please do still register, we never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial reasons and we can agree a donation that is affordable for you right now. Please email Marie Odile our IDMT Coordinator idmt@jamyangleeds.co.uk if you would like to chat.

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

FPMT 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 FPMT 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.

IDMT Year Four: The Vajra Ground: Mahamudra and Kriya Tantra

In this culminating fourth year of our journey, our path turns inward to the mind itself—its empty, luminous nature—and outward to the transformative methods of tantra, where the naturally pure nature of our perception is recognized as the very ground of awakening. As always, the year will start with generating the mind of awakening, using evocative instructions ranging from Langri Thangpa to Nāgārjuna and Lord Buddha in the famous Bodhisattvapiṭaka. This mind generation we’ll cultivate through the four immeasurable thoughts and the support of calm abiding. Illuminated by the life stories of the masters of the Gelug Mahāmudrā lineage and beyond, we’ll explore its roots in the history of the early Indian Mahāsiddhas, such as Saraha and Tilopa, through the Kagyü master Gampopa’s and Je Tsongkhapa’s Mañjuśrī lineage up to Paṇchen Losang Chökyi Gyaltsen’s Highway of the Conquerors and its perspective on this practice. In Sūtra Mahāmudrā we will practice resting attention in the empty nature of awareness, recognizing its clarity and openness as inseparable.

Kriyā Tantra offers a complementary method. Rather than suppress the ordinary, narrow self-narrative that we impose on ourselves and our world, it substitutes for it an extraordinary perspective of pure view. Occasionally, by way of introduction, we’ll also taste practices from the higher tantras—glimpsing how afflictive emotions can be met as innate wisdom, and how the dissolution of the death process opens onto the innate mind of clear light. The structured practices of generation and recitation become a rehearsal for transformation, training perception to meet appearances as pure. These methods rest on a relationship. We will therefore examine the practice of guru devotion candidly—both as the means by which the lineage’s realization is transmitted and as a practice with real pitfalls, requiring discernment as much as trust. Through the Ganden Lha Gyāma, the Yoga of the inseparability of guru and Avalokiteśvara, and supporting sādhanas, devotion is approached not as deference but as the ethical road toward the state of Vajradhara: the full integration of wisdom and method.

This final year is an invitation to let realization ripen into a way of being. Grounded in bodhicitta and the four immeasurables, sustained by the preliminary practices, and held by the strength of community, we learn to meet the mind without grasping and to meet the world as pure appearance. Our aim is not to accumulate practices, but to bring the path to maturity—wisdom and compassion no longer cultivated separately, but lived as one.

This four-year online course provides students with long term, in-depth support in their meditative development.

The teacher and course developer is Venerable Losang Gendun. He has trained extensively in meditation in both Theravada and Mahayana Traditions

The In Depth Meditation Training course 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 FPMT In-Depth Meditation 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

The zoom link and all materials for the course are provided to registered students.

Donations:

Generosity is one of the cornerstones of the Buddhist path. With your donation we support The Buddha Project and we keep our centre going for the benefit of all sentient beings.

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.

• The recommended donation per calendar month is £45.

• If you are able to practice generosity and sponsor other students we recommend £58 per calendar month.

• If you are on a reduced income it is £31 per calendar month.

There is also the option to donate annually.

If none of the above options are affordable please do still register, we never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial reasons and we can agree a donation that is affordable for you right now. Please email Marie Odile our IDMT Coordinator idmt@jamyangleeds.co.uk if you would like to chat.

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

FPMT 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 FPMT 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.

IDMT Year Four: The Vajra Ground: Mahamudra and Kriya Tantra

In this culminating fourth year of our journey, our path turns inward to the mind itself—its empty, luminous nature—and outward to the transformative methods of tantra, where the naturally pure nature of our perception is recognized as the very ground of awakening. As always, the year will start with generating the mind of awakening, using evocative instructions ranging from Langri Thangpa to Nāgārjuna and Lord Buddha in the famous Bodhisattvapiṭaka. This mind generation we’ll cultivate through the four immeasurable thoughts and the support of calm abiding. Illuminated by the life stories of the masters of the Gelug Mahāmudrā lineage and beyond, we’ll explore its roots in the history of the early Indian Mahāsiddhas, such as Saraha and Tilopa, through the Kagyü master Gampopa’s and Je Tsongkhapa’s Mañjuśrī lineage up to Paṇchen Losang Chökyi Gyaltsen’s Highway of the Conquerors and its perspective on this practice. In Sūtra Mahāmudrā we will practice resting attention in the empty nature of awareness, recognizing its clarity and openness as inseparable.

Kriyā Tantra offers a complementary method. Rather than suppress the ordinary, narrow self-narrative that we impose on ourselves and our world, it substitutes for it an extraordinary perspective of pure view. Occasionally, by way of introduction, we’ll also taste practices from the higher tantras—glimpsing how afflictive emotions can be met as innate wisdom, and how the dissolution of the death process opens onto the innate mind of clear light. The structured practices of generation and recitation become a rehearsal for transformation, training perception to meet appearances as pure. These methods rest on a relationship. We will therefore examine the practice of guru devotion candidly—both as the means by which the lineage’s realization is transmitted and as a practice with real pitfalls, requiring discernment as much as trust. Through the Ganden Lha Gyāma, the Yoga of the inseparability of guru and Avalokiteśvara, and supporting sādhanas, devotion is approached not as deference but as the ethical road toward the state of Vajradhara: the full integration of wisdom and method.

This final year is an invitation to let realization ripen into a way of being. Grounded in bodhicitta and the four immeasurables, sustained by the preliminary practices, and held by the strength of community, we learn to meet the mind without grasping and to meet the world as pure appearance. Our aim is not to accumulate practices, but to bring the path to maturity—wisdom and compassion no longer cultivated separately, but lived as one.

This four-year online course provides students with long term, in-depth support in their meditative development.

The teacher and course developer is Venerable Losang Gendun. He has trained extensively in meditation in both Theravada and Mahayana Traditions

The In Depth Meditation Training course 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 FPMT In-Depth Meditation 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

The zoom link and all materials for the course are provided to registered students.

Donations:

Generosity is one of the cornerstones of the Buddhist path. With your donation we support The Buddha Project and we keep our centre going for the benefit of all sentient beings.

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.

• The recommended donation per calendar month is £45.

• If you are able to practice generosity and sponsor other students we recommend £58 per calendar month.

• If you are on a reduced income it is £31 per calendar month.

There is also the option to donate annually.

If none of the above options are affordable please do still register, we never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial reasons and we can agree a donation that is affordable for you right now. Please email Marie Odile our IDMT Coordinator idmt@jamyangleeds.co.uk if you would like to chat.