Syllabus
The six modules relate to the three Snow Lion books of The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment. Volume one (small and medium scope) is covered in modules one and two, and volume two (Bodhicitta) in module three. The whole of the second year of study is given to volume three, Lama Tsongkapa’s teachings on serenity and insight, his definitive work on emptiness.
Year 1
Module 1: Small scope to refuge
Volume 1, chapters 1 -12
Includes relying on the teacher, meditation, precious human rebirth, death, refuge.
Module 2: Karma, suffering, and medium scope
Volume 1, chapters 13 - 24
Includes karma, suffering, twelve factors of dependent origination, three trainings.
Module 3: Bodhicitta
Volume 2
Includes compassion, seven point cause and effect, exchanging self and other, maintaining spirit of enlightenment, six perfections.
Year 2
Module 4: Serenity and insight
Volume 3, chapters 1 -11
Includes serenity, focusing the mind, dependent arising and emptiness.
Module 5: Rational analysis
Volume 3, chapters 12 - 17
Includes rational analysis, valid establishment, conventional existence.
Module 6: Prasangika distinction
Volume 3, chapters 18 - 27
Includes Svatantrika/Prasangika distinction, analysing a chariot, unity
of insight and serenity.
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