Online Courses in Buddhism
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Buddhism
Journey Without Goal: Featuring Talks by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
This course will introduce the key principles of tantra and provide a direct and experiential picture of the tantric world, including the importance of self-existing energy, the mandala principle, and the difference between Buddhist and Hindu tantra.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Being Buddhist: Exploring the Refuge Vow
This three session course explores the moment when a person decides to “be Buddhist”—formally, through the practice of taking a vow. It is open to all who are interested in the Refuge Vow, or anyone looking to reconnect with their original inspiration.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Already Awake: Seeing Our Buddha Nature
In this weekend retreat, we will explore the Buddha’s teachings on buddha nature and the fundamental truth that we are “already awake.”
No Prerequisites
Recorded Courses
Buddhism
A Year of Deepening in Compassion - Part I: The Four Limitless Ones
A Year of Deepening in Compassion: Part one of a four-part series exploring the Shambhala Mahayana teachings.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
A Year of Deepening in Compassion - Part II: The Joyful Snow Lion and The Paramitas
A Year of Deepening in Compassion: Part two of a four-part series exploring the Shambhala Mahayana teachings.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
A Year of Deepening in Compassion - Part III: Fearless Garuda - Emptiness and Absolute Bodhicitta
A Year of Deepening in Compassion: Part three of a four-part series exploring the Shambhala Mahayana teachings.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
A Year of Deepening in Compassion - Part IV: Lojong and Compassionate Engagement
A Year of Deepening in Compassion: Part four of a four-part series exploring the Shambhala Mahayana teachings.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche: The Tibetan Buddhist Path - Part I
Profound, potent, and intimate, this course includes videos of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche teaching that provide a rare glimpse of the early days of Buddhism in the West. The Tibetan Buddhist Path was the first seminar given by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche: The Tibetan Buddhist Path - Part II (OE)
Profound, potent, and intimate, this course includes videos of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche teaching that provide a rare glimpse of the early days of Buddhism in the West. The Tibetan Buddhist Path was the first seminar given by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
No Prerequisites
Advanced Study
Cycle of the Black Ashe
Cycle of the Black Ashe is a series of talks by Robin Kornman on the Terma cycle by the Vidyadhara, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. This course is built around seven talks that are open to Warrior Assembly grads. One talk is restricted to SS practitioners.
Prerequisites apply Warrior Assembly (attendance)
Buddhism
Earth, Water, Fire and All the Elements: Reading the Sadhana of Mahamudra as if for the First Time
This pre-recorded course explores the Sadhana of Mahamudra "as if for the first time."
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Finding Freedom: The Core Teachings of the Buddha
This is a five-course-series that provides a thorough exploration of the Hinayana path drawing on teachings from prominent teachers and classic sources.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Finding Freedom: The Core Teachings of the Buddha, Course I - The First Noble Truth: Meeting Suffering with Maitri
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Finding Freedom: The Core Teachings of the Buddha, Course II - The Second Noble Truth: The Origin of Suffering, Part I - The Five Skandas
Having recognized the truth of suffering and the confusion that is pervasive in our life, we naturally have questions. In this in-depth exploration of the Five Skandhas, we will touch these layers or constellations of experience one by one.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Finding Freedom: The Core Teachings of the Buddha, Course III - The Second Noble Truth: The Origin of Suffering, Part II - The Wheel of Life, Karma, and the Twelve Nidanas
The foundational teachings of the Buddha indicate that the suffering we experience in our lives can come to cessation if we recognize, deeply and profoundly, how that suffering has arisen. This requires gentle bravery and deep contemplation.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Finding Freedom: The Core Teachings of the Buddha, Course IV - The Third Noble Truth: Freedom From Suffering
Contemplating the cessation of suffering, we first see the accessibility of the third noble truth as the gap. We are basically good. Realizing this to be true is that simple, and we are glimpsing this all the time.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Finding Freedom: The Core Teachings of the Buddha, Course V - The Fourth Noble Truth: The Path of Shila, Samadhi, and Prajna
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Groundless Courage: Teaching on Death, Dying and the Bardo
This recorded course provides instructions and practices to work with death and dying as they manifest throughout our lives.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Meditation: The Way of the Buddha
Learn or refresh your connection to the practice of meditation as taught by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, based on archival talks in the summer of 1974 to an audience of new students.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Melting the Ice and Getting Unstuck: Talks On The 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva
Five recorded sessions based on this text, which provides clear insight and points to the skillful means to work with difficult circumstances while being of benefit to others.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Sadhana of Mahamudra - A Practice For This Dark Age
Over the course of five recorded classes of study and practice, Suzann Duquette leads a deep exploration of the Sadhana of Mahamudra.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
The Development of Peace: An Introduction to the Basic Teachings of the Buddha
This Course Introduces the Buddha's core teaching of The Four Noble Truths.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Three Yanas of the Great Eastern Sun (OE)
A self-study course based on a weekend retreat with John Rockwell. The view of this course is to understand how all three yanas of the Buddhist journey can join together.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Waking Up in Free-Fall: Bringing the Buddhist Practices of a Bodhisattva to the Bardos of Everyday Life
In this course we will explore how the Buddhist teachings on the bardo can be a guide to keeping our hearts open when life seems to fall apart.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
White Tara: A Soothing Practice for Difficult Times
This five-week course introduces the short daily practice of White Tara, one of the most famous bodhisattvas of compassion in Tibetan Buddhism. The reading transmission (lung) is included in the course
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Yeshe Tsogyal and the Feminine Principle (OE)
This course explores Yeshe Tsogyal as a female exemplar, enlightened teacher, and fierce protector for all dharma practitioners.
No Prerequisites
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