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7 09, 2023

BUD 692 Treasury of Valid Cognition and Reasoning – Chapter 1 (SPOC)

2023-11-08T10:34:42-08:00Categories: Blog, reg-spoc, REGISTRO|

BUD 692 Treasury of Valid Cognition and Reasoning - Chapter 1 (SPOC) Faculty: {!{types field='faculty' style='text'}!}{!{/types}!} 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

26 07, 2023

BUD 703 Madhyamakāvatāra IV: Entrance to the Middle Way

2023-11-08T10:36:18-08:00Categories: Acharya Kelsang Wangdi, Advanced Curriculum, Blog, reg-EN, reg-semester, REGISTRO|

Register Here PREREQUISITES None BUD 703 Madhyamakāvatāra IV: Entrance to the Middle Way Live Online Course Faculty: {!{types field='faculty' style='text'}!}{!{/types}!} Original Faculty: Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche This course is based on the recordings and transcripts of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche's oral teachings on Chandrakīrti’s root text Madhyamakāvatāra in 1999 and 2000, using the commentary by the Eight Karmapa, Mikyö Dorje (1507-1554).We will first complete chapter 6 on prajñā, specifically the sections on the refutation of a self of persons and the presentation of the sixteen emptiness. Then we will complete the rest of the text that is on bhūmis 7-10, namely, the perfections of

26 07, 2023

BUD 654 Sautrantika Debate

2023-09-04T10:35:20-07:00Categories: Intermediate Curriculum, reg-EN, reg-semester, REGISTRO, Sautrantika|

Register Here PREREQUISITES Spring 2023 semester of BUD 654 BUD 654 Sautrantika Debate (continued) Faculty: {!{types field='faculty' style='text'}!}{!{/types}!} This intermediate debate course is a continuation in training in formally debating the tenets of the Sautrantika philosophical tradition. Debate topics in this class center around the proof of subtle impermanence —the reason of non-dependency that proves that entities do not rely on another cause for their momentary cessation other than their own dependently arisen appearance. This semester, students will focus on refutations of a truly existent personal self. PREREQUISITE: Spring 2023 semester of BUD 654 REQUIRED TEXTS: None DATES

24 07, 2023

BUD 600 Analytical Meditation II

2023-11-08T10:36:51-08:00Categories: Blog, Intermediate Curriculum, Jirka Hladis, reg-EN, reg-semester, REGISTRO|

Register Here PREREQUISITES BUD 601 BUD 610 Helpful to have finished entire curriculum BUD 600 Analytical Meditation II Faculty: {!{types field='faculty' style='text'}!}{!{/types}!} Analytical meditation: a form of debate without a partner. The function of analytical meditation is to bring the view being studied into one’s own experience. It lifts the words out of the book and places them into our heart. The words go from being out there to being part of our innermost being, integrated. That is the essential function of analytical meditation. Through this effort to analyze we become curious about how our mind works. Though this process, the

19 12, 2022

BUD 553 Temas Selectos Debate I

2022-12-26T08:39:50-08:00Categories: reg-semester, REGISTRO|

Inscríbete ahora REQUISITOS BUD 502 BUD 553 Debate I: Temas selectos Facilitadora: Adela Iglesias Este curso básico de debate ofrece una formación metódica en habilidades de debate elementales sobre la base del curso de Pensar Claramente. Los alumnos se entrenan en la formulación de razonamientos con razones correctas y aparentes y los utilizan en el debate aprendiendo a cuestionar el primer modo (la relación entre el sujeto y la razón). El contenido del debate consiste en la clasificación de objetos en términos de entidad de Temas selectos. PRERREQUISITO: BUD 502 TEXTOS REQUERIDOS: Ninguno FECHAS &

13 12, 2022

BUD 692 Treasury of Valid Cognition and Reasoning

2023-08-25T11:54:54-07:00Categories: Acharya Kelsang Wangdi, Advanced Curriculum, reg-EN, reg-semester, REGISTRO, Valid Cognition|

Register Here PREREQUISITES Anyone who is interested may take this course, however, it is recommended that studens have finished Nitartha Institute's Foundation and Intermediate curricula, or Mind and Its World I and II at a minimum. BUD 692 Treasury of Valid Cognition and Reasoning Faculty: {!{types field='faculty' style='text'}!}{!{/types}!} Course Description: This course is the continuation of an in-depth study of Treasury of Valid Cognition and Reasoning, (tshad ma rigs gter) by renowned scholar Sakya Pandita (1182-1251) – an influential work which inaugurated a new period of Pramāna studies in Tibet by focusing particularly on Dharmakīrti’s Pramānavārttika and identifying the errors

24 07, 2022

BUD 520 Mind and Its World III

2023-09-11T15:01:23-07:00Categories: Foundation Curriculum, reg-EN, reg-semester, REGISTRO|

Register Here PREREQUISITES BUD 501 BUD 520 Mind and Its World III: Vaibhashika Philosophical Tradition Faculty: {!{types field='faculty' style='text'}!}{!{/types}!} This course is an exposition of the Vaibashika and Sautrantika philosophical views, based on the The Gateway that Reveals the Philosophical Traditions to Fresh Minds root text and the new Mind and Its world III Sourcebook. The presentation of these views are based on teachings given by Acharya Kelzang Wangdi on the Gateway that Reveals the Philosophical Systems to Fresh Minds root text during the 2009 and 2010 Summer Institutes. His talks have been incorporated into the new Mind and Its World III Sourcebook. If

24 07, 2022

BUD 502 Pensar Claramente

2022-11-14T13:02:27-08:00Categories: reg-semester, REGISTRO|

Haz clic aquí para inscribirte. REQUISITOS Ninguno BUD 502 Pensar Claramente Profesora: Alison McKee Este curso profundizará tu entendimiento de los objetos como se presenta en la tradición Abhidhama, con base en el texto raíz Temas selectos del curso de la Mente y su mundo. Los estudiantes aprenden métodos para pensar claramente al formular definiciones, ejemplos, equivalentes y clasificaciones, y al explorar los cuatro tipos de relaciones lógicas entre dos fenómenos. Este curso también prepara a los estudiates para el debate, que es un método altamente eficaz para aclarar el entendimiento de los temas que se estudian en el currículo

9 03, 2022

BUD 500 Analytical Meditation I (SPOC)

2022-03-15T20:00:31-07:00Categories: reg-spoc, REGISTRO|

BUD 500 Analytical Meditation I (SPOC) This course is a systematic training in the meditation of special insight in the tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Having first established a ground of calm abiding, students engage in analytical vipashyana or insight meditation into how our use of conceptuality contributes to the creation of karma and kleśa, and how to reverse that process by contemplating identitylessness, emptiness. The course will cover Part I on the Common Samadhis, from Moonbeams of Mahāmudrā. Faculty; Jirka HladišPREREQUISITES: It is strongly recommended that students have taken some courses in the Foundational Curriculum. REQUIRED TEXTS: Part I on Common Samadhis from

29 01, 2022

Test for Translation

2022-01-29T12:27:23-08:00Categories: Sin categorizar|

We are using this page to do some testing for WPML and Word Press language translation stuff. We shall see... <A translation> Words <another translation> Bananas <translation> Phone <translation> Dharma <translation> Lament Configuration <translation> Tashi delek <Tibetan!> End <Fin>

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