3 12, 2025

BUD 600 Analytical Meditation II 分析式禪修II

2025-12-17T06:10:32-08:00Categories: Blog, Intermediate Curriculum, Jirka Hladis, reg-EN, reg-semester, registration|

BUD 600 分析式禪修II 教師: {!{types field='faculty' style='text'}!}{!{/types}!} BUD 600: 分析式禪修II – 空性禪修次第 大乘佛教傳統中的一門引導式、循序漸進的空性禪修課程，為修持大手印做好準備。 課程概述 BUD 600 是一門大乘佛教傳統中關於觀禪的系統性訓練課程。在整個學期中，您將學習如何運用分析式禪修，來獲得對空性和佛性如來藏見地的定解，並將此定解帶入直接的個人體驗中。本課程強調培養比量智慧，再通過次第的禪修練習不斷深化此勝觀。 您将体验到 課程圓滿後，您將能： 依循清晰、漸進的次第，練習引導式空性禪修 學會以真實開啟勝觀的方式來練習分析式禪修，而非強化概念心 將聲聞乘、唯識、中觀與佛性如來藏視為可實際運用于禪修的框架加以探索 對無我、空性與佛性如來藏的真實含義建立日益增強的確信 理解這一禪修訓練如何為真正的大手印修持打下基礎 課程運作方式 2026 年春季學期課程將介紹四個次第的空性禪修方法，呈現於一條清晰且實用的修持之道。 每堂課都包括： 對該次第見地的簡明講解 引導式的分析式禪修與安住修 提問與澄清的時間 所有引導式禪修都會提供錄音，方便您在課程之間持續練習。 取材自了義學院基礎課程與中級課程的核心教材，循序漸進地引導學員修習四種主要的空性禪修： 聲聞乘:分析人我與法我皆無自性 唯識: 認出顯相即心 中觀: 洞見離於有無二邊的自在 佛性如來藏: 安住於心之本俱的覺醒本性 您可以將本課視為通向了義學院所有課程與高階禪修之道的應用型預備課程。 本課程為何對大手印修持至關重要 在印度與早期西藏的傳統中，次第的空性禪修是大手印修持的前行訓練。 如蘇珊娜·謝夫奇克在堪布竹清嘉措仁波切所著的 《空性禪修次第》一 書的前言中所指出的 在佛法尚未傳入西藏之前，印度傳統趨向大手印修持的方式是禪修空性。只有在空性修持獲得成就的人，才會被允許進入大手印的教導…空性禪修次第正是作為大手印修持的前行而存在。 本課程承續這一精神: 為您提供 空性禪修的基礎， 以支持大手印及其它的甚深修持。 這門課程適合您嗎？ 如您符合以下情況，本課程可能非常適合您： 您曾學習過空性的教法，但希望通過清晰、引導式、循序漸進的禪修來真正修持 您對大手印或其他高階修持感興趣，希望建立穩固的基礎 您重視了義學院嚴謹與精准的教學，期待對這些教學有更直接的禪修運用 您是了義學院的新學員，但已有一定佛法修行經驗，想要在一條結構清楚的道途上前行 本課程不要求先修過任何了義學院課程，也不設指定教材。 資格條件: 無 必讀課本: 無 日期和時間: 共16堂課，京港臺時間 每週二早上7:00-8:30 1月13日-5月12日 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。 即刻報名 WHAT YOU WILL BE INTRODUCED TO: (This is a small sampling of the topics covered in

30 05, 2024

Buddha Nature: The Most Powerful Antidote

2024-05-31T14:40:03-07:00Categories: Blog, Mahamudra, Meditation|

Buddha Nature: The Most Powerful Antidote Written by Israel Lifshitz We, as 21st century Westerners, have a strong historical, religious and cultural background of low self-esteem and self-deprecation. Our ideas about sin and guilt are so deeply ingrained that even the non-religious, free thinking scientist Sigmund Freud said in Civilization and Its Discontents: "Due to our own psychic constitution we have a limited capacity for virtue and happiness, and therefore, we must feel satisfied with a moderate level of mental balance and wellbeing."* This is not a minor issue. It can even work as our biggest obstacle to progressing along the Buddhist path. If deep down in our

12 05, 2024

Key Qualities of Mahamudra Meditation

2024-05-12T14:21:54-07:00Categories: Blog, Mahamudra, Meditation|

Key Qualities of Mahamudra Meditation Written by Michael Miller Nitartha CFO Nalandabodhi Karunika and Practice Instructor As we embark on our journey through the Mahamudra practices, it is important to note the differences between Mahamudra meditation and simple shamatha. The differences are subtle but profound, and we can miss the point entirely if we do not know them. First, renunciation or revulsion is important. We need to develop some sense of giving in, some sense of renunciation. This does not mean going off to a cave and giving up all our worldly possessions. But it does mean that we must be willing to give up our fixed

30 04, 2024

Improve your meditation with thangka drawing

2024-05-03T11:03:08-07:00Categories: Blog, Meditation, Science of Creative Arts, Shamatha|

Drawing the Awakened Heart Improve your meditation with thangka drawing, one of the courses offered by Nitartha’s Department of Science of Creativity and the Arts. This is a powerful tool for developing our visualization and creation stage practices. After taking this course, many students have found it easier to generate their visualizations and with greater clarity. Studio classes are also a natural environment for practicing shamatha meditation. One's mind relaxes and simply focuses on drawing, which can be a very calming experience. Nitartha teaches thangka drawing based on the Karma Gadri Lineage. One of the four major schools of Tibetan thangka painting, we begin by learning the

30 04, 2024

Mind and Its World II: How Mind Engages with its World

2024-04-30T10:13:08-07:00Categories: Blog, Foundation Curriculum, Mind & Its World, Shedra|

Mind and Its World II: How Mind Engages with its World After exploring how mind cognizes in a valid or non-valid way in the first course in the Mind and Its World series, we are ready to look at how the mind works from the perspective of the way in which it engages with its objects, also known as “modes of engagement.” We spend a lot of our time engaged with our concepts, though we are rarely aware of this. Of course the conceptual mind is very useful, we need it to navigate our experiences of the world. But it is not a direct perception, it does not

25 04, 2024

Dharma without Compromise: How to take our practice off the cushion

2025-05-01T09:18:10-07:00Categories: Blog, Buddhist Studies, Jirka Hladis, Meditation, Shedra|

Dharma without Compromise: How to take our practice off the cushion Advice for those familiar with insight meditation and the study of the view, based on an oral presentation by Jirka Hladis. You might ask, “How can I use my formal dharma studies and meditation in practical ways, in everyday life?” This is an excellent question, because practicing the dharma is not meant to be limited to sitting on the cushion, but rather, it is intended to be applied and developed in all areas of our lives: home, work, school and community. Insight into egolessness or emptiness cannot be created in post-meditation without having had an experience

12 04, 2024

Mind and Its World I: Valid Cognition

2025-08-29T07:51:40-07:00Categories: Blog, Buddhist Studies, Mind & Its World, Semester Course, Shedra, Valid Cognition|

This is the first course in Nitartha’s curriculum, and one of many that will be offered this fall semester in September 2025. This course explores the question: How do you obtain accurate and valid knowledge about the world? That’s the subject of pramana, or Buddhist epistemology. We typically assume that what we know about the world is valid. But is it? Our mind processes information so quickly, it responds so fast to what’s happening around us that we usually don’t realize when we are having a conceptual experience that is not actually in agreement with the object that we are experiencing.In this course, we become able to distinguish

1 11, 2023

How To Practice In This Time Of Strife – Part 1

2023-11-10T07:05:52-08:00Categories: Blog, Dependent Origination, Featured, Jirka Hladis, Meditation, Shamatha|Tags: , , , , , , |

How To Practice In This Time Of Strife Part I: In this time of strife and war there is desire in the practitioner to send positive thoughts of compassion, some prayers. But there might also be a strong tendency to show anger, and blame one of the sides. And, what would be a guidance here, utilizing what we have studied here at Nitartha in the real world situation like this we could benefit from? How do we make this practice? The dharma of our teacher, Gautama the Buddha, the Tathāgata, the fully enlightened Buddha Śākyamuni, is the dharma of dependent origination, pratītyasamudpāda. The original formulation of the

1 11, 2023

How To Practice In This Time Of Strife – Part II

2023-11-10T17:48:16-08:00Categories: Blog, Dependent Origination, Jirka Hladis, Meditation, Shamatha|

How To Practice In This Time Of Strife - Part II Read Part I... Part II : The view of the dependent origination of the mutual dependence of the perceiver and the perceived, which is brought into life through the practice of mindfulness of breathing in such an immediate and compelling way, is furthermore expressed in the conduct of non-harming (ahimsā). The conduct of non-harming is the main topic of this presentation here - How To Practice In This Time Of Strife. Another name for the conduct of non-harming is the practice of compassion. The mind of the conduct of non-harming is the mind imbued with compassion. Thus,

7 09, 2023

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

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