BUD 692

Treasury of Valid Cognition and Reasoning - Chapter 1 (SPOC)

Faculty: Acharya Kelsang Wangdi

This is the first of a series of teachings by Acharya Lama Kelzang Wangdi on Sakya Paṇḍita’s entire Treasury of Valid Cognition and Reasoning. Acharya Lama Kelzang will begin to teach chapter 1, “Investigation of the Object.” This chapter sets
forth the major terminology of the tradition of valid cognition:

  • valid cognition and mistaken cognition,
  • their related objects that are things, non-things, and clearly appearing non-existents, and
  • the modes of engagement of objects as appearing objects, referent objects, and objects of engagement.

The theories of perception of the Vaibhāṣikas and Sautrāntikas are analyzed with a critique from the Mahāyāna schools, using the reasoning of one and many.

PREREQUISITE:

Any interested student may take this course. However, since this is an Advanced Curriculum course at the Nitartha Institute, it is recommended for students who have completed the Institute's Foundation and Intermediate Curriculums. In particular, it is recommended that students have completed the Mind and Its World I and II courses that are based on the Lorik (Classifications of Mind) root text by Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, or have had equivalent detailed study elsewhere.

REQUIRED TEXTS:

The text is provided in the Moodle module for this course.

COST:

$300

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Acharya Kelsang Wangdi

Acharya Lama Kelzang Wangdi is the resident lama and spiritual leader of Kamalashila Institute, the European seat of His Holiness Ogyen Trinley Dorje near Cologne, Germany. Acharya Kelzang studied at the Karma Shri Nalanda Institute at Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim from 1989 to 2001, where he obtained a master’s degree in Buddhist philosophy and the academic title of Acharya. He had already begun teaching junior students at Karma Shri Nalanda Institute in 1995 and continued teaching there until 2003. He received many teachings from H.E. Gyaltsab Rinpoche, Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche and Dzogchen Pönlop Rinpoche on the doctrine and the practice of the buddhadharma. In the early part of 2004 Lama Kelzang Wangdi went to the USA to teach at Nitartha Institute, where he continues to teach once a year. Acharya Kelzang also teaches at various other Buddhist centers throughout Germany, France, Austria, and Switzerland.

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