Foundation of Buddhist Thought

Available Courses

• January 2008 intake (Graduates)

  

   

• May 2008 Intake. (Graduates)

  • Tutor: kay Cooper

  

  
  
• September 2008 Intake. (Tantra)

  • Tutor: Jane Sill

  

  
  
• January 2009 Intake. (Emptiness)

  • Tutor: Ian Thomas

  
• May 2009 intake (Bodhicitta)

  • Tutor: Martin Kerrigan

  

  
  
• September 2009 Intake (Buddhist Psy)

  • Tutor: Martin Kerrigan
  • Tutor: Kristina Dogge
  • Tutor: Lobsang Jinpa

  

  
  
• Four Noble Truths (course material)

  

  
  

  

  The Buddha taught that life is pervaded by suffering caused by our deluded minds, and yet, that there is a path out of suffering leading to its cessation. This teaching is known as the Four Noble Truths.
• The Two Truths

  

  
  

  The Buddha taught that the awakenend mind perceives reality as comprised of two truths; the 'appearences' of conventional truth and the ultimate truth of the emptiness of all phenomena.

• Buddhist Psychology

  

  The Buddha taught that the mind exists in layers of increasing subtlety, from the samsaric, gross mind of  the aggregates, to the very subtle mind of enlightenment which moves from one life to the next.

• Bodhicitta

  

  

  The Buddha taught that Bodhicitta, or the 'mind of enlightenment', is the mind of great compassion and selfless love, which spontaneously wishes to free all sentient beings from suffering and lead them to liberation.

• Emptiness

  

  
  

  

  The Buddha taught that the selfless mind of great wisdom realises the dependent arising, selfless nature of all phenomena as empty of inherent existence. Emptiness is the ultimate nature of reality.

• Tantra

  

  

  The Buddha taught Tantra as the fastest path to enlightement, involving the dissolution of all dualisms through the disipline of yogic practices, that unite emptiness and bliss to liberate the fully awakened mind.