Introduction to the FPMT Ngöndro Lamrim Training Course
with Venerable Losang Gendun
Tue Sep 8, 7-9pm EDT
IN-PERSON & ONLINE
Live introduction to the Ngöndro Lamrim Training (NLRT) course, a two-year journey in the common and uncommon preliminary practices.
The Ngöndro Lamrim Training (NLRT) provides comprehensive practice instruction of the common and uncommon preliminary practices (NGÖNDRO). Venerable Gendun will provide a live introduction to the course for those interested in learning more about it, or for those who have already registered.
The training is designed to generate the motivation that supports the development of calm abiding, special insight, and other tools needed for tantra. By cultivating the inner qualities needed to ease unskillful patterns of mind that are the cause of hindrances on the path, it facilitates deep transformation.
Content
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.
Aims
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.
Format
The teaching sessions are prerecorded. 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.
Who is it for?
The training is designed for students with a solid grounding in the lamrim or an equivalent Dharma background — particularly for those seeking structured support in their practice, for those preparing for śamatha, vipaśyanā, and especially tantra, or for those encountering challenges in their meditative practice. While not a prerequisite, the training forms an excellent preparation for the FPMT In-Depth Meditation Training.
Sponsorship
Due to Ven. Gendun’s extended stay, our costs for hosting will be substantially higher than normal – anticipated to be around $5,000 for flights, housing, transportation, food and other miscellaneous expenses. We welcome your support to enable these precious teachings to happen. Any amount is greatly appreciated and very karmically beneficial!
If you plan to attend in-person or via Zoom, please donate using the registration process (Register button).
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Food Offerings
Important Note
This is an in-person and online event. For online, the events will be administered using Zoom.
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Registration
Free
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Recordings
Past teaching videos and audio from Ven. Gendun:
Discover Mindfulness with a Master (VIDEO)
The Art of Letting the Mind Rest (VIDEO)
Ven. Losang Gendun: Insight Meditation in the Tibetan Tradition (VIDEO)
Cultivating Emptiness & the Luminous Nature of Mind in a Fragmented World (VIDEO)
Venerable Losang Gendun: Bridging Traditions, Building Communities (#199) from Wisdom Podcast (LISTEN)
About the Teacher
Venerable Losang Gendun has spent nearly four decades in Buddhist practice, and has been living as a fully ordained gelong in the Tibetan tradition for the past twenty years. His training spans ten years of monastic study across France, India, Nepal, and Myanmar, and more than four years in solitary retreat in the Tibetan Mahayana and the Burmese Theravāda traditions.
For the past eighteen years he has taught Buddhist philosophy, psychology, and meditation worldwide within FPMT, serving the vision of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. In 2023, as a gesture of gratitude to his teachers, he founded The Buddha Project (TBP), offering long-term guidance for serious meditators. TBP webpages serve as the online learning platform for its core programs, the FPMT In-Depth Meditation Training and the FPMT Ngondro Lamrim Training.
