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13 12, 2022

BUD 553 Collected Topics Debate I

REGISTRATION Click here to register now PREREQUISITES BUD 502 BUD 553 Collected Topics Debate I FACULTY: Alison McKee 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: Tuesdays

13 12, 2022

BUD 654 Sautrantika Debate

Register now PREREQUISITES Fall 2023 Debate II-III or having completed the foundation debate curriculum BUD 654 Sautrantika Debate Faculty: Dr. Francis Sullivan This intermediate debate course trains in formally debating the tenets of the Sautrāntika 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. PREREQUISITE: Fall 2023 Debate II-III or having completed the foundation debate curriculum REQUIRED TEXTS: None DATES & TIMES: Sundays {!{types

13 12, 2022

BUD 692 Treasury of Valid Cognition and Reasoning

REGISTRATION REGISTER NOW 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: Acharya Lama Kelzang Wangdi Course Description: 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. Starting February 7, 2023, he will teach on chapter 1, “Investigation of the Object.” This chapter sets forth the major terminology of the

24 07, 2022

BUD 620 Paths and Bhumis

REGISTRATION If you have previously taken this course but did not take the fall 2022 semester, please contact Elena to register, at eweiss@nitarthainstitute.org PREREQUISITES Fall 2022 Paths & Bhumis, semester 1 or having previously taken this course. BUD 620 Paths & Bhumis: The Path to Enlightenment FACULTY: Jirka Hladiš This course is an exposition of the Buddhist path based on The Presentation of Bhumis, Paths & Results in the Treasury of Knowledge root text. Students 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

6 12, 2021

LAN 532 Continuing Reading Tibetan Buddhist Literature (Semester 3)

REGISTRATION Click here to register now PREREQUISITES LAN 531 or equivalent LAN 532 Continuing Reading Tibetan Buddhist Literature This course is a continuation of LAN530 and is similarly oriented towards reading Tibetan Buddhist texts and literature, largely from the Kagyü and Nyingma traditions. The class is structured as a translation committee. Each student is given an opportunity to read a passage aloud and offer their translation to the group. Then we collectively analyze the translation and discuss difficult points of phrasing and grammar in the context of the specific passage. Through this process the entire group benefits from the insights

6 12, 2021

Continuing Colloquial Tibetan

REGISTRATION Register now PREREQUISITES Please contact Nima Bhuti to check your level. nbhuti.tibetanlesson1@gmail.com Intermediate Colloquial Tibetan This course is for those students who already have some grounding in colloquial Tibetan. The focus will be to gain further fluency in reading, speaking and listening to Tibetan using the Central Tibetan dialect. Classes are mostly in Tibetan with minimal English. Required Texts: Speak Tibetan the Tibetan Way by Nyima Dekyi (Google Books) and Speak Fluent Tibetan by Dr. Chok Tenzin Monlam Peltsok During the first half hour of class we will practice with the text Speak Fluent Tibetan and during the next 1 hour we will

14 11, 2021

BUD 530 Mind and Its World IV: Sautrantika Philosophical Tradition

REGISTRATION CLICK HERE TO REGISTER NOW PREREQUISITES BUD 501 BUD 530 Mind and Its World IV: Sautrantika Philosophical Tradition Faculty: Dr. Sandra Roscoe and Susan Stewart About this course: This course will explore aspects of the Sautrantika philosophical system, including how all knowable objects are classified into specifically and generally characterized phenomena —which this foundational system considers ultimate reality and relative reality, respectively. The Sautrantikas also have a unique perspective about what they consider to be “hidden” phenomena, such as karma, which is understood as extremely hidden.  Plus, we will study their unique presentation on the aggregates, or skandhas. We will also discuss the path

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