Venerable Amy Miller, who has led the famous month-long November course at Kopan Monastery in Nepal and has been noted by students as an excellent meditation teacher, leads this weekend retreat at Garrison Institute in New York.
The lam-rim, or “graduated path,” is a presentation of Shakyamuni Buddha’s teachings in a form suitable for the step-by-step training of a student. Created by the great Nalanda master Lama Atisha and elaborated by Lama Tsong Khapa, the lam-rim condenses the Buddha’s 84,000 teachings found in hundreds of sutras and thousands of verses into a logical, sequential set of teachings to guide the spiritual seeker on the path, to emerge from ordinariness, to liberation, and on to full Buddhahood.