Quotes:Lamrim

Zirkoff, Boris

*Lamrim. A Tibetan term applied to sundry mystical writings, since lam(-gyi) rim(-pa) signifies “a degree of advance,” especially in reference to the steps on the path towards perfection, and lam means a way, road or path. Connected with Lamrim, as a term, are the words chen-mo or chen-po, both signifying “great”; hence, Lam-rim chen-mo, “the Great Road to Perfection.” H.P.B. stated (Coll. Writings, IX, 158) that the Lamrim “is a work of practical instructions, by Tsong Kha-pa, in two portions, one for ecclesiastical and exoteric purposes the other for esoteric use.”

Tsong Kha-pa also wrote a concise version expressing the heart of the Lamrim teachings. See: Essence of Refined Cold, tr. by G. H. Mullin, with commentaries by the Third & Fourteenth Dali Lamas, 1982; and Ch. VI of The Door of Liberation, tr. by Geshe Wangyal, 1978.

See further bibliographical data in Vol. IX, p. 441.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 3, p. 513

*Lamrin or Lam-rim-chen-mo of Tson-kha-pa (1357-1419), founder of the Gelugpa School of Tibetan Buddhism. The full title of this work is: Skyes bu gsum gyi nams su blan bahi rim pa thams cad tshan bar ston pahi byan chub lam gyi rim pa. See Alex Wayman, Introduction to Tson-kha-pa’s Lam rim chen mo, in the Phi Theta Annual: Papers of the Oriental Languages Honor Society, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., 1952, Vol. 3.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 9, p. 441