The Bridge: Article on Studying at RYI

In January 2009 the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley visited RYI to learn about Buddhism and share their own experience of Christianity with faculty and students at RYI.

Following the visit, the JSTB journal, The Bridge, published an article about this visit, which can be read here:

http://www.jstb.edu/publications/bridge_spring09.pdf

Meditation Seminar with Khenpo Jampa Donden

Rangjung Yeshe Institute is pleased to announce a short course on Buddhist Meditation by Khenpo Jampa Donden.

Venue: Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery.

Time:
Saturday, October 10: 2.00 - 3.30 pm
Sunday, October 11: 10.00 - 12.00 am

Tuition:
International: Nrs. 500
Local: Nrs. 200

Registration should be done in person at the RYI office at the monastery.

A Survey of Buddhist Ethics

RYI is pleased to announce a seminar on Buddhist Ethics by Dr. Stephen Jenkins (Humboldt University).

The course will explore the Buddhist ethics of compassion from a variety of perspectives and in terms of some basic ethical categories. While addressing definitions and philosophical underpinnings of loving kindness and compassion the seminar will also consider historical and hermeneutical issues in the interpretation of compassion in abhidharmic, Mahāyānist, and tantric modes of Buddhist thought.

Dates: Nov. 2 – Dec. 4, 2009.

Time: Tuesday and Friday, 1.00 - 2.30 pm

The seminar is open to the public. However, preregistration at the RYI offices is required.