Exploring Buddhism: Exploring Prayers & Practices, Q and A session (online)
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Exploring Buddhism: Exploring Common Prayers and Practices
~ this module of the Exploring Buddhism course includes video teachings, live teachings, and live Q&A sessions ~
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In order to make progress on the spiritual path, we must support our practice of study, contemplation, and meditation with the practices of accumulation of merit and purification of negative karma. In this module of Exploring Buddhism, we will examine the need for prayers, dedications, as well as various other practices and pujas, and investigate how they are meant to affect the mind and bring about the realizations of the path to enlightenment. Teachings will be given on how to do the main prayers, practices, and pujas that are commonly performed by FPMT students on their own and also conducted in our centers. REGISTER HERE for Exploring Buddhism: Exploring Common Prayers & Practices |
*SCHEDULE FOR COMPLETING THIS MODULE*
EB: Exploring Common Prayers and Practices is being offered as a combination of video teachings, live (online) Q&A sessions, and live (online) teachings.
Please use the following schedule to complete this course:
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January - June 1st, 2023 -- timeframe in which this module is designed to be completed
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January-February, 2023 -- registered students view pre-recorded teachings, sessions 1 - 4 (approx one hour each)
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Thurs March 2, 2023, 7-8:30pm -- live Zoom session with Venerable Amy Miller to include a brief review and Q&A
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March 2023 -- registered students view pre-recorded teachings, sessions 5 - 11 (between ~20-70 mins each)
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Thurs April , 7-8:30pm -- live Zoom session with Venerable Amy Miller to include a brief review and Q&A
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April 2023 -- registered students view pre-recorded teachings, sessions 13 - 15 (between 45-90 mins each)
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Thurs May 4, 2023, 7-8:30pm -- live Zoom session with Gen Don Handrick to include a brief review and Q&A
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Thurs May 11, 7-8:30pm -- live Zoom teaching with Gen Don Handrick
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Thurs May 18, 7-8:30pm -- live Zoom teaching with Gen Don Handrick
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Thurs May 25, 7-8:30pm -- live Zoom teaching with Gen Don Handrick
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Thurs June 1, 7-8:30pm -- live Zoom teaching with Gen Don Handrick
REGISTER HERE for Exploring Buddhism: Exploring Common Prayers & Practices.
Click HERE to preview the syllabus for Exploring Common Prayers and Practices.
Exploring Buddhism is a new program currently being developed by FPMT to serve as a bridge between Discovering Buddhism and The Basic Program. It is designed to help students of Buddhism delve more deeply into a broad array of topics that form a solid foundation for furthering one’s study and practice. The program will initially be run as a pilot program in FPMT centers to further test and refine the curriculum.
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Instructors for this module:
Venerable Lozang Yönten is an American-born Buddhist nun in the Tibetan tradition who was ordained in 2003. A practicing Buddhist since 1994, Ven. Yönten moved to Chenrezig Institute in Australia and studied intensively under Khensur Rinpoche Geshe Tashi Tsering (Lharampa Geshe from Sera Je Monastery and former Abbot of Gyü-me Tanric College) from 2002 – 2009, completing their Buddhist Studies Program. She then continued to study, retreat and offer service at Dharma Centers in India and Taiwan as well as Australia and New Zealand, becoming an In-Depth Registered Teacher within the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) in 2012. Ven. Yönten was the Resident Teacher of Kunsang Yeshe Retreat Centre in the Blue Mountains of Australia from 2012 – 2015 before becoming teacher-in-residence six months of the year at Mahamudra Centre for Universal Unity in New Zealand until 2018. She continues to offer classes and retreats at both Centres annually. Currently, Ven. Yönten divides her time as a touring teacher and retreat leader, as well as annually offering the Buddhadharma from a secular perspective in Israel as a member of the Buddhist faculty for a seven-year post graduate program called Human Spirit which is a Buddhist Psychoanalytic Training Program. MORE: https://www.youtube.com/c/VenYonten and https://lozangyonten.wixsite.com/website |
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Gen Don Handrick is a touring teacher for the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), sharing the Dharma with centers and study groups in North America and other parts of the world, both in-person and online. Don's study of Buddhism began in 1993 after reading The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche. Over the next two years he practiced with Sogyal Rinpoche's organization, until he began attending classes in 1996 with Venerable Robina Courtin at Tse Chen Ling in San Francisco. Don left the Bay Area in 1998 to attend the FPMT's Masters Program of Buddhist Studies in Sutra and Tantra, a seven-year residential study program conducted at Lama Tzong Khapa Institute in Tuscany, Italy, and taught by the scholar and kind Spiritual Friend, Geshe Jampa Gyatso. He successfully completed all five subjects of this program in 2004, receiving an FPMT final certificate with high honors. Students appreciate his humble, compassionate demeanor and his capacity to explain profound ideas with precision, contemporary examples and humor. |
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Amy J. Miller (Ven. Lobsang Chodren) first encountered Tibetan Buddhism in the spring of 1987 during a course at Kopan Monastery in Nepal. Since then, she has spent a great deal of time engaged in meditation retreats, study, teaching, and Buddhist center management throughout the world. Prior to meeting the Dharma, Amy was a political fundraiser in Washington, DC and also worked for Mother Jones Magazine in San Francisco, California. Amy was ordained as a Buddhist nun in June 2000 by the great Tibetan master, Ven. Choden Rinpoche, and has been teaching extensively since 1992. Her teaching style emphasizes a practical approach to integrating Buddhist philosophy into everyday life. She is happy to help people connect with meditation and mindfulness in an effort to gain a refreshing perspective on normally stressful living. Amy’s courses and retreats focus on establishing and maintaining a meditation and mindfulness practice, death and dying, overcoming anxiety and depression, battling addiction, dealing with self-esteem issues, and cultivating compassion and loving kindness. She is also often involved in leading a variety of retreats. Amy is the co-author of Buddhism in a Nutshell and a contributor to Living in the Path, a series of online courses produced by FPMT. Based in the United States, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Amy teaches and leads retreats and pilgrimages around the world. Her teaching schedule and other information can be found at www.AmyMiller.com. |
This program is offered jointly by:
- Kadampa Center, Raleigh, NC
- Shantideva Center, Brooklyn, NY
- Thubten Kunga Ling, Deerfield Beach, FL