{!{types field='course-start-date' style='text' format='F j, Y'}!}{!{/types}!}-{!{types field='course-end-date' style='text' format='F j, Y'}!}{!{/types}!} Dates: Monday mornings September 20 - December 6, 2021, from 8:30am - 10:00 am Pacific time. Faculty: Mark Seibold This course is oriented towards reading Tibetan Buddhist texts and literature. It uses Tokmé Zangbo’s famous 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva (རྒྱལ་སྲེཨ་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ།) as the basis for developing familiarity with Tibetan grammar and developing reading skills. Interesting and important grammatical points are explained in the context of specific passages. Opening and closing chants are done in Tibetan. Students are encouraged to practice reading aloud to learn the rhythms and feel of the phrasing of the language