INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHISM
TUSHITA MEDITATION CENTRE, INDIA
OVERVIEW
This course introduces the core Buddhist principals using the framework of the Four Noble Truths - the foundation of all Buddhist traditions.

The course then looks at how the Mahayana expands upon this basis and how the Vajrayana expands upon the Mahayana. Within the Mahayana the course provides a more detailed discussion of the two wings of practice of wisdom and compassion in terms of how to cultivate the wisdom of emptiness (shunyata) and how to develop the compassionate aspiration of bodhicitta. Finally the course looks at how the stages of the path to enlightenment (LAMRIM) is laid out within the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.

This  course provides a mixture of theory and practice with the last two days just focusing on meditation.
FACILITATORS
Glen Svensson 
(classes)
Renato Schnoell 
(meditations)
MATERIALS
Introduction to Buddhism
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Suffering & its Causes
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Three Vehicles
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DAY 1 ('right click to download')
DAY 2 (classes & meditations)
DAY 3 (classes & meditations)
DAY 4 (classes & meditations)
DAY 5 (classes & meditations)
DAY 6 (classes & meditations)
DAY 7 (classes & meditations)
DAY 8 (meditations)
DAY 9 (meditations)
DAY 10 (advice)
“When we apply the principles of quantum physics to the entire universe, as Wheeler and Zeilinger advocate, the whole of nature exists in a quantum superposition state consisting of an infinite array of possibilities. According to Hawking, every possible version of a single universe exists simultaneously in that quantum superposition. When you choose to make a measurement, you select from this range of possibilities a subset of histories that share the specific features measured. The history of the universe as you conceive of it is derived from that subset of histories. In other words, you choose your past.”
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Alan Wallace (Mind in the Balance)