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17 12, 2024

TNT 420 Teacher-In-Training Seminar

2024-12-18T08:42:31-08:00Categories: reg-EN, reg-semester, registration|

TNT 420 Teacher-In-Training Seminar Faculty: {!{types field='faculty' style='text'}!}{!{/types}!} Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche is committed to training Buddhist teachers as an essential key to establishing the living Buddhadharma in the West. Nitartha’s Teachers in Training program is for approved students who have completed the Foundation and Intermediate curricula and who are passionate about teaching the Nitartha curriculum. For more information about Nitartha's Teachers in Training program, contact Dr. Francis Sullivan at francis.sullivan@cogentbio.com. PREREQUISITE: Prior admission to the Teacher-In-Training program DATES & TIMES: {!{types field='dow'}!}{!{/types}!}, {!{types field='course-dates'}!}{!{/types}!}, {!{types field='meeting-times'}!}{!{/types}!} WHAT YOU WILL BE INTRODUCED TO: (This is a

19 08, 2024
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LAN 510 Intermediate Colloquial Tibetan

2024-12-18T08:49:23-08:00Categories: reg-EN, reg-language, reg-semester, registration|

LAN 510 Intermediate Colloquial Tibetan (continued) Also taught by Nima Bhuti, this course is a continuation of the 2024  fall semester intermediate colloquial Tibetan course. This course is for students with an established grounding in colloquial Tibetan. The focus will be to gain further fluency in reading, speaking, listening, and understanding Tibetan using the Central Tibetan dialect. Classes are mostly Tibetan with minimal English. Required Texts: Speak Fluent Tibetan by Dr. Chok Tenzin Monlam Peltsok (Google Books) Speak Tibetan the Tibetan Way by Nyima Dekyi (Google Books) PREREQUISITE: Although this is a continuing course from the 2024  fall semester, you are

3 01, 2024

大手印複習課程

2025-01-24T07:18:07-08:00Categories: reg-semester, registration|

大手印複習課程 《大手印止禪》，《大手印觀禪-I》，《大手印觀禪-II》 您曾在了義暑假學院參加過《大手印止禪》，《大手印觀禪-I》，和/或《大手印觀禪-II》課程嗎？如您參加過，我們誠邀您，複習之前參加的任一級別大手印課程。 這些課程是以下教學的實錄： 大手印止禪 (2014暑假學院原版課程) 教授: 竹慶本樂仁波切 日期： 2025年2月14日至7月3日 学费: $250 大手印觀禪-I (2015暑假學院原版課程) 教授: 竹慶本樂仁波切 日期： 2025年2月14日至6月22日 学费: $250 大手印觀禪-II (2016暑假學院原版課程) 教授: 竹慶本樂仁波切 日期： 2025年2月14日至7月3日 学费: $250 請注意每節課只能觀看7天 (沒有例外情况) 中文翻譯只在音頻課中提供. 現在注册報名 大手印資格申請 複習課程:大手印止禪, 觀禪-I, 和觀禪-II 都需要資格申請 前提條件: 在了義暑假學院參加過這個門課

3 01, 2024

暑前課程：《大手印觀禪-I》

2024-01-29T16:13:10-08:00Categories: registration|

暑前課程《大手印觀禪-I》 2月2日開始 資格申請截止日期：2024年1月26日 我們邀請您參加：阿闍黎喇嘛滇巴嘉誠2023年教學的實錄課程 如您的情況符合以下3點， 你將會參加2024年暑假學院課程 你之前曾在了義暑假學院參加過《大手印止禪》課程 你有意在暑假學院獲得參加《大手印觀禪-II》課程的資格 在註冊此暑前課程時，需同時支付500美元的不可退還押金（2024暑假學院一期課程費用），以保證您將會參加此次暑假學院課程。 費用： {!{types field='course-cost' style='text'}!}{!{/types}!} 了義學院的付款計畫和財務資助（PPFA）項目由同學資助，以支持那些沒有此項資助就無法參加學院課程的人. 如需申請，請在註冊課程前填寫 PPFA 申請表。 暑假學院預備課程1月26日的申請截止日期已經過去。由於每門課程的觀看時間有限，延遲申請可能會導致錯過第一堂課。如果您仍想申請，請郵件聯絡：eweiss@nitarthainstitute.org 大手印資格申請: 暑前課程《大手印觀禪-I》 暑前課程：《大手印觀禪-I》: 暑前課程的資格申請，以獲得參加2024暑假學院《大手印觀禪-II》課程的資格。 （在註冊此暑前課程時，需同時支付500 [one session of the 2024 Summer Institute] 美元的不可退還押金[2024暑假學院一期課程費用]，以保證您將會參加此次暑假學院課程。） 資格限定: 您之前曾在了義暑假學院參加過《大手印止禪》課程。

7 09, 2023
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BUD 692 Treasury of Valid Cognition and Reasoning – Chapter 1 (SPOC)

2024-09-06T13:38:39-07:00Categories: Blog, reg-spoc, registration|

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

24 07, 2023
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BUD 600 Analytical Meditation II

2024-12-19T12:08:17-08:00Categories: Blog, Intermediate Curriculum, Jirka Hladis, reg-EN, reg-semester, registration|

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 view being contemplated is examined. Does it make sense to me? Is it something I fully comprehend? Why

13 12, 2022
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BUD 553 辩经1阶

2025-01-13T10:56:56-08:00Categories: reg-EN, reg-semester, registration|

BUD 553 Collected Topics Debate I FACULTY: {!{types field='faculty'}!}{!{/types}!} This foundation debate course offers a methodical training in elementary debate skills on the basis of the Clear Thinking course. Students train in formulating reasonings with correct and seeming reasons and utilize them in debate by learning how to challenge the first mode (the relationship between the subject and the reason). The debate content consists of the classification of objects in terms of entity from Collected Topics. PREREQUISITE: BUD 502 REQUIRED TEXTS: None DATES & TIMES: {!{types field='dow'}!}{!{/types}!} {!{types field='course-dates'}!}{!{/types}!}, {!{types field='meeting-times'}!}{!{/types}!} COST: ${!{types field='course-cost' style='text'}!}{!{/types}!} Nitartha’s Payment Plan

13 12, 2022
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BUD 692 Treasury of Valid Cognition and Reasoning

2025-01-05T16:52:57-08:00Categories: Acharya Kelsang Wangdi, Advanced Curriculum, reg-EN, reg-semester, registration, Valid Cognition|

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 that inaugurated a new period of pramana studies in Tibet by focusing particularly on Dharmakirti’s Pramanavarttika and identifying the errors of earlier Tibetan scholars, especially Chapa Chökyi Senge. We will study Sakya Pandita’s seminal work on the basis of the commentary by Jamyang Loter Wangpo (1847-1914). This semester, we will continue and complete Chapter 5 "Investigation of the Object of Expression

24 07, 2022
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BUD 620 Paths and Bhumis

2024-12-18T09:07:23-08:00Categories: reg-EN, reg-semester, registration|

BUD 620 Paths & Bhumis: The Path to Enlightenment FACULTY: {!{types field='faculty'}!}{!{/types}!} This is semester 2 of this course, an exposition of the Buddhist path based on The Presentation of Bhumis, Paths & Results in the Treasury of Knowledge root text. Students continue to learn what is necessary for entering and progressing on the path and what the goal of spiritual journey is, through exploring the five paths, and the ten bodhisattva bhūmis, as well as the result: nirvana, kāyas, wisdoms and enlightened activity. PREREQUISITE: Fall 2024 Paths & Bhumis (Semester 1) or repeat students who have previously completed the Paths & Bhumis course

9 03, 2022
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BUD 500 Analytical Meditation I (SPOC)

2024-09-09T09:20:11-07:00Categories: reg-spoc, registration|

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 Hladiš   PREREQUISITES: It is strongly recommended that students have taken some courses in the Foundational Curriculum, particularly BUD 501 as a minimum.

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