Glen Svensson
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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
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Glen Svensson 
(classes)
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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')
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1.1 Introduction

DAY 2 (classes & meditations)
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2.1 SHAMATHA (full-body)
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2.2 Genuine happiness
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2.3 Four Noble Truths
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2.4 The mind
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2.5 NATURE OF THE MIND
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2.6 GENUINE HAPPINESS

DAY 3 (classes & meditations)
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3.1 SHAMATHA (abdomen)
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3.2 Mental afflictions
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3.3 Suffering & its causes
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3.4 Karma
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3.5 DEALING WITH ANGER
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3.6 LOVING-KINDNESS

DAY 4 (classes & meditations)
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4.1 SHAMATHA (nostrils)
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4.2 Mindfulness
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4.3 Death & rebirth
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4.4 Wheel of life
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4.5 DEATH AWARENESS
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4.6 PURIFICATION

DAY 5 (classes & meditations)
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5.1 SHAMATHA (nostrils)
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5.2 Theravada
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5.3 Mahayana
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5.4 Bodhicitta
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5.5 EQUANIMITY
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5.6 EMPATHETIC JOY

DAY 6 (classes & meditations)
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6.1 SHAMATHA (mind)
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6.2 Selflessness
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6.3 Emptiness
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6.4 Emptiness of person
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6.5 EMPTINESS of PERSON
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6.6 DEPENDENT-ARISING

DAY 7 (classes & meditations)
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7.1 SHAMATHA (mind)
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7.2 Relying on a teacher
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7.3 Stages of the path
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7.4 Shamatha
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7.5 REFUGE
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7.6 TONG-LEN (giving & taking)

DAY 8 (meditations)
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8.1 SHAMATHA (awareness)
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8.2 SHAMATHA (awareness)
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8.3 EMPTINESS of MEDITATOR
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8.4  DEALING with ATTACHMENT
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8.5 EXCHANGING SELF with OTHERS
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8.6 TONG-LEN (giving & taking)
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8.7 NATURE of the MIND

DAY 9 (meditations)
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9.1 SHAMATHA (awareness)
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9.2 GENUINE HAPPINESS
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9.3 NATURE of the MIND
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9.4 TONG-LEN (giving & taking)
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9.5 KINDNESS of OTHERS
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9.6 KINDNESS of OTHERS

DAY 10 (advice)
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10.1 Meditation advice
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10.2 General advice
"I am delighted that the Center for Contemplative Research is offering opportunities for rigorous mind-training and collaborative research by practiced contemplatives and scientists. Together they seek to explore the inner sources of mental conflict and distress, the roots of genuine well-being, and the origins, nature, and potentials of the mind."
                                                                                                                                                                                                                               His Holiness The Dalai Lama
     
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