
Buddhism 101 Training Program
Buddhism 1o1
This training program is designed to give the participant a basic understand of Buddhist psychology and practice. In this training program, the student meets weekly (or as close to it as possible) with a teacher to progress through the curriculum. This training program can be taken for its own sake or as a prerequisite to the Lay Priest Training Program.
Curriculum
- The Three Marks of Existence
- Awakening/Nirvana/Samsara
- Four Noble Truths
- The Eightfold Path
- The Five Aggregates
- The Three Poisons
- The Five Hinderances
- Mental Afflictions (Kleshas)
- The Life of the Buddha
- Samsara, Karma and Rebirth
- The 12 Links of Causation
- Schools of Buddhism
- Emptiness
- Buddha Nature
- The Bodhisattva Ideal
- The Mahayana Two Truths
- Mindfulness
- Samadhi and Jnanas
- The Trikaya doctrine
- The Early Buddhist Cannon
- The Mahayana Buddhist Cannon