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Classes offered at the Dharma Farm

2023 Summer Beginning Classical Tibetan Intensive

Sixty-four hours over eight weeks

 

Classes: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday 9:00am-11:00am PDT

 

First four weeks: Monday June 5-Friday June 30

 

One week mid-course break July 3-July 6

 

Final four weeks: Monday July 9-Friday August 3

 

2023 Summer Intensive - Click here for details

 

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2023 (Current Semester)

Second Year Classical Tibetan
Craig Preston
Texts: 

  • Jay-dzun-ba (1469 -1542)
    Presentation of Tenets: Proponents of Naturelessness

This is a continuation of Second Year Classical Tibetan that began in September 2022.

We return to the text at the beginning of the discussion of the Middle Way Schools.

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Monday, Wednesday from 9:30 to 11am PST

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The Grounds and Paths According to the Consequence School
Craig Preston
Texts: 

  • blo bzang rta mgrin (1867-1937)
    Brief Expression of the Presentation of the Grounds and Paths of the
    Three Vehicle According to the System of the Great Vehicle of the Perfections Essence
    of the Ocean of Profound Meaning

This is a continuation of a class that began in September 2022. 
We return to the text at the beginning of The Grounds of Bodhisattva Superiors.

 

Friday, 9:30 to 11am PST

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Dharma Farm Lecture Series

Select Fridays at noon

 

Sravasti Translation Committee
Bill Magee and Paul Hackett

Texts: 

  • Maitreya, Ornament for the Great Vehicle Sutras (mdo sde rgyan, mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra)

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2022

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Intermediate Classical Tibetan 
Craig Preston and Jess Perry
Texts: 

  • Joe Wilson, Translating Buddhism From Tibetan

  • Paul Hackett, Learning Classical Tibetan

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Classical Tibetan
Craig Preston
Texts: 

  • Pur-bu-jok, Introductory Path of Reasoning From Collected Topics on Valid Cognition

  • Magical Key to the Path of Reasoning (tshad ma’i gzhung don ‘byed pa’i bsdus grwa’i rnam bzhag rigs lam ‘phrul gyi lde mig). Evidence.

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Grammar Nerd's Reading Group 

Shahar Tene

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Dharma Farm Lecture Series

Bertram Liyanage

The Nyāyābindu of Dharmakīrti

 

Sravasti Translation Committee
Bill Magee and Paul Hackett

Texts: 

  • Maitreya, Ornament for the Great Vehicle Sutras (mdo sde rgyan, mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra)

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Advanced Reading

Craig Preston

Texts: 

  • Jam-yang-shay-pa’ Decisive Analysis of Chandrakīrti’s Supplement

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Uncollected Topics: Ngag-dbang-bkra-shis’s Collected Topics

Craig Preston

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Advanced topics in Tibetan Grammar

Craig Preston

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Advanced Reading

Shahar Tene

2021

Introduction to Classical Tibetan
Jess Perry, Mikhael Landrieux, Shahar Tene, Andrew Hughes

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Intermediate Classical Tibetan
Bill Magee

Texts: 

  • Joe Wilson, Translating Buddhism From Tibetan

  • Paul Hackett, Learning Classical Tibetan

  • Pur-bu-jok, Introductory Path of Reasoning From Collected Topics on Valid Cognition

  • Magical Key to the Path of Reasoning (tshad ma’i gzhung don ‘byed pa’i bsdus grwa’i rnam bzhag rigs lam ‘phrul gyi lde mig). Evidence.

 

Intermediate Classical Tibetan II
Craig Preston and Jess Perry

  • Tenets of Buddhist Schools in India

 

Intermediate Classical Tibetan III
Craig Preston and Jess Perry

  •   Tutor’s Collected Topics

 

Dharma Farm Lecture Series

Bill Magee

  • Tsong-kha-pa, The Essence of Eloquence (legs bshad snying po), Part II

 

Spoken Tibetan for Translators
Shahar Tene

 

Introduction to Sanskrit
Paul Hackett

 

Uncollected Topics
Craig Preston

 

Dharma Farm Lecture Series

Bill Magee

  • Tsong-kha-pa, The Essence of Eloquence (legs bshad snying po), part III

 

Dharma Farm Lecture Series
Bertram Liyanage

  • "Madhyamaka Philosophy from Nāgārjuna to Candrakirti"

 

Grammar Nerds’ Reading Group
Shahar Tene

 

Classical Tibetan
Bill Magee
Texts:

  • Shantideva, Engaging in the Deeds of Bodhisattvas (dbu ma la ‘jug pa, bodhisattvacaryāvātara) Chapter One

 

Sravasti Translation Committee
Bill Magee and Paul Hackett

Texts:

  • Ngawang Dragpa, “The Definitive Door to Practice Derived from [Tsong-kha-pa’s] Stages of the Path to Awakening: Distillation of All Eloquence (nyams len gyi rnam par nges pa legs gsungs kun gyi nying khu)

 

Dharma Farm Lecture Series

Bill Magee

  • "Tsong-kha-pa, The Essence of Eloquence (legs bshad snying po), Part IV"

 

Dharma Farm Lecture Series
Bertram Liyanage

  • "Studies in Buddhist Logic and Scholarly Controversies in Buddhist Philosophy"

 

Sravasti Translation Committee
Bill Magee and Paul Hackett

Texts:

  • Maitreya, Ornament for the Great Vehicle Sutras (mdo sde rgyan, mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra)

 

Dharma Farm Lecture Series

Bill Magee

  • "Tsong-kha-pa, The Essence of Eloquence (legs bshad snying po), Part V"

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2020

Intermediate Classical Tibetan, Section I
Craig Preston and Jess Perry
Texts: 

  • Joe Wilson, Translating Buddhism From Tibetan

  • Paul Hackett, Learning Classical Tibetan

  • Aku-lo-dro, Mirror Clarifying the Important Points of the Placement of Letters (yi ge thob thang nyer mkho rab sel me long)

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Intermediate Classical Tibetan, Section II
Craig Preston and Jess Perry
Texts: 

  • Joe Wilson, Translating Buddhism From Tibetan

  • Paul Hackett, Learning Classical Tibetan

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Sravasti Translation Committee
Bill Magee and Paul Hackett

Texts: 

  • Ngawang Dragpa, “The Definitive Door to Practice Derived from [Tsong-kha-pa’s] Stages of the Path to Awakening: Distillation of All Eloquence (nyams len gyi rnam par nges pa legs gsungs kun gyi nying khu)

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Tibetan Grammar Review
Jess Perry

Texts: 

  • Joe Wilson, Translating Buddhism From Tibetan 

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Dharma Farm Lecture Series

Bertram Liyanage

  • A History of Buddhist Philosophical Trends in India

 

Dharma Farm Lecture Series

Bill Magee

  • Tsong-kha-pa, The Essence of Eloquence (legs bshad snying po), Part I

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Spoken Tibetan for Translators

Shahar Tene

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