Lecture Series: Essential Knowledge of Hinayana and Mahayana Buddhism

There will be a 15 person limit. Please register with the office (monastery@sakya.org, 206-789-2573, or in person). Course reference book: A Concise Introduction To Tibetan Buddhism by John Powers.

This course will teach the foundational concepts and practices of Hinayana and Mahayana Buddhism to motivated beginning and intermediate practitioners. This nine session series is designed to ground students in the core principles and theory underlying Hinayana and Mahayana Buddhist practices and which are the basis of Vajrayana Buddhism.

Note: There will be no class Wednesday, May 8th. Classes will resume the following week.

Session Topics & Teachers:
1. The Buddha, Buddhism, Taking Refuge
Date: Wednesday, April 17th
Instructor: Eric Dulberg

2. Introduction to Buddhist Practice and Meditation.
Date: Wednesday, April 24th
Instructor: Eric Dulberg

3. The Four Thoughts that Turn the Mind to Dharma
Date: Wednesday, May 1st
Instructor: Ken Hockett

4. The Parting from the Four Attachments
Date: Wednesday, May 15th
Instructor: Ken Hockett

5. Selflessness & Dependent Origination with focus on the 12 Links & the Wheel of Life
Date: Wednesday, May 22nd
Instructor: Murray Gordon
Location: Shrine Room

6. The Functions of the Mind
Date: Wednesday, May 29th
Instructor: Murray Gordon

7. Examining the Four Noble Truths, using Meditations from The Beautiful Ornament of the Three Visions
Date: Wednesday, June 5th
Instructor: David Spiekerman

8. The Mahayana Path: Bodhicitta, the Bodhisattva Vow, and the Six Perfections (with Tonglen instruction)
Date: Wednesday, June 12th
Instructor: Stephanie Prince