BUD 601 Cittamātra Philosophical Tradition Faculty: {!{types field='faculty' style='text'}!}{!{/types}!} This course is an exposition of the Cittamātra philosophical tradition, based on The Mind Only Tenet System root text. Students engage in the philosophical reformulation of experience arising from meditation practice, declaring reasonings that establish objects as not separate from mind. This is followed by the presentation of the true and false aspectarians and the classification of knowable objects into the three natures, as well as the theory of the eight-fold collection of consciousness. PREREQUISITE: BUD 501, BUD 510, BUD 520, BUD 530 REQUIRED TEXTS: Root text: The Mind Only Tenet System

BUD 501 Mind and Its World I: Valid Cognition 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 of topics drawn from the

BUD 500 Analytical Meditation I Faculty: {!{types field='faculty' style='text'}!}{!{/types}!} Course Description: This course is a systematic training in the meditation of special insight following the approach of the Abhidharma tradition. Students learn the skills to gain certainty in the view of selflessness through the practice of the Four Applications of Mindfulness, cultivating inferential wisdom and bringing it to personal experience. Additional Course Description: Through a series of analytical meditations, students will train in the sequential entry into the view of identitylessness - dependent origination with the support of the scriptural sutras of the foundational vehicle and mahayana, and following the matrix of the four noble