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3 12, 2025

SCA 510 Buddhist Visual Literacy

Cody Foster2025-12-03T13:47:13-08:00Categories: reg-EN, reg-semester, registration|

SCA 510 Symbolizing the Awakened Heart: Introduction to Buddhist Visual Literacy Faculty: {!{types field='faculty' style='text'}!}{!{/types}!} This course introduces Buddhist visual literacy, meaning it develops a basis for exploring and understanding Buddhist symbolism and iconography through the use of classic Buddhist teachings on seeming and ultimate realities, while considering the roles of conception and perception. We’ll learn through illustrated presentations and contemplative experiments to explore how meaning is made and communicated when producing and viewing imagery, and especially Buddhist imagery. Part of the course delves into the roots of Buddhist symbolism and iconography, and applies visual literacy skills in reading specific works of Buddhist art. Mode

3 12, 2025

BUD 630 Buddha Nature
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BUD 630 Buddha Nature

Cody Foster2025-12-03T09:00:45-08:00Categories: reg-EN, reg-semester, registration|

BUD 630 Buddha Nature: Luminous Heart of the Tathagata Faculty: {!{types field='faculty' style='text'}!}{!{/types}!} This course is an exposition of the Tathāgatagarbha philosophical tradition, based on the The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra: Fourth Vajra Point root text. Students cultivate certainty in the view of Buddha nature—the essence of awakening present in all beings. The Fourth Vajra Point of the Uttaratantra establishes Buddha nature through three reasonings, its ten aspects, nine analogies and five reasons why it is necessary to teach it. PREREQUISITE: BUD 501, BUD 510, BUD 520, BUD 530 REQUIRED TEXTS: Buddha Nature: The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra by Arya Maitreya, Translated by

2 12, 2025

BUD 510 Mind and Its World II
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BUD 510 Mind and Its World II

Cody Foster2025-12-02T10:44:15-08:00Categories: reg-semester, registration|

BUD 510 Mind and Its World II: Modes of Engagement Faculty: {!{types field='faculty' style='text'}!}{!{/types}!} This course completes the introductory exposition of topics drawn from the Pramāna and Abhidhama traditions, based on the Classifications of Mind and Collected Topics root texts. It provides students with the tools for delineating conceptual and non-conceptual mind in meditation, known as the essential modes of engagement of mind. PREREQUISITE: BUD 501 REQUIRED TEXTS: Root text: Classifications of Mind (Lorik), by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, Nitartha Institute Publications Root text: Collected Topics (Düdra), by Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen, Nitartha Institute Publications Mind & Its World 2

30 07, 2025

BUD 501 Mind and Its World I 了義學院課程大綱
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BUD 501 Mind and Its World I 了義學院課程大綱

Cody Foster2025-12-02T10:40:16-08:00Categories: reg-EN, reg-semester, reg-ZH, registration|

BUD 501 Mind and Its World I: Valid Cognition with consecutive Chinese translation Faculty: {!{types field='faculty' style='text'}!}{!{/types}!} 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. Course Description: This course is an introductory exposition

24 07, 2023

BUD 600 Analytical Meditation II 分析式禪修II
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BUD 600 Analytical Meditation II 分析式禪修II

Cody Foster2025-12-03T13:50:06-08:00Categories: Blog, Intermediate Curriculum, Jirka Hladis, reg-EN, reg-semester, registration|

BUD 600 Analytical Meditation II Faculty: {!{types field='faculty' style='text'}!}{!{/types}!} BUD 600 Course Description: This course is a systematic training in the meditation of special insight in the tradition of Mahayana Buddhism. The students learn the skills to gain certainty in the view of emptiness through the practice of the Four Mahāyāna Yogas, cultivating inferential wisdom and bringing it to personal experience. Additional Course Description: The spring 2026 semester course is arranged as a presentation of the four-fold progressive stages of meditation on emptiness. The course will offer guided meditations for each of the progressive stages of meditation on emptiness. They will be recorded for

14 11, 2021

BUD 530 Mind and Its World IV: Vaibhasika and Sautrantika Philosophical Traditions
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BUD 530 Mind and Its World IV: Vaibhasika and Sautrantika Philosophical Traditions

Cody Foster2025-12-03T13:30:27-08:00Categories: reg-semester, registration|

BUD 530 Mind and Its World IV: Vaibhasika and Sautrantika Philosophical Tradition Faculty: {!{types field='faculty'}!}{!{/types}!} About this course: This course is a presentation of the path and result of foundational Buddhism as found in the Vaibhāṣika and Sautrāntika philosophical traditions, based on The Gateway that Reveals the Philosophical Traditions to Fresh Minds root text. The path consists of calm abiding and superior insight. Key topics such as the 4 Realities, the 4 Foundations of Mindfulness, the 12 links of dependent origination, and the 37 branches of enlightenment will be discussed. Each topic will have an experiential component of analytical meditation. PREREQUISITE: BUD 501 is required.