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Dharma Realm Buddhist University - Berkeley

Buddhist Studies & Practice M.A. Program

Fall 2007 Class Schedule

No one saves us but ourselves,
No one can and no one may.
We ourselves must walk the path.
Buddhas merely show the way.
--Dhammapada

 

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TIME

LOCATION

Comparative Philosophy and Religion or Analytical Thought

Buddhist Muslim Dialogue

BSP 270

Snjezana Akpinar and Giv Nassiri

Monday 2:10-5:00pm

102 Mudd, GTU

Postmodern Critical Theorists and The Shurangama Sutra

BSP 272

Doug Powers and Snjezana Akpinar

Tuesday 7:10-9:40pm

206 Mudd, GTU

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seminar in Methodology

Methods & Ideas in the Study of Religion: Hermeneutics III (1 credit)

BSP 220.3

Martin Verhoeven
Doug Powers

Monday 7:15-9:40pm (every other week)

BBM Library

 

 

 

 

 

 

Major Sutras

The Sixth Patriarch Sutra Dharma-Lecturing Lab
(1 credit)

SUT 260.4

Martin Verhoeven

Friday 7:30-9:30pm

BBM

Flower Adornment Sutra

SUT 270.4

Rev. Heng Sure and Martin Verhoeven

Thursday 7:30-9:30pm

BBM

 

 

 

 

 

 

Buddhist Ethics or Vinaya

Directed Study in Ethics

BSP 250

Martin Verhoeven

Monday 7:15-9:40

BBM Library

 

 

 

 

 

 

Practicum (1 unit)

Traditional Context of Buddhist “Mind Training”

BSP 238.4

Steven Tainer

Wednesday  7:30-9:00pm

BBM

Qigong & Classical Yoga

AA 225

Amelia Barili

Monday 7:30-9pm

BBM

Daily Chan Meditation

  • Plus a retreat every 4th Sat. 6:30am - 3pm

BSP 238.4

Chin He Shr

6:15-7:15am
5:15-6:15pm daily

BBM

Saturday Dharma Assembly

  • Shurangama Mantra
  • Great Compassion Repentance
  • Universal Door Chapter

C&R 199.1 (fill out ind. stu. form)

Chin He Shr

1st, 2nd & 3rd Sat of month 9-10:15am

BBM

Daily Ceremonies

  • Evening Recitation

C&R 100.1

Chin He Shr

6:30-7:30pm

BBM

CTTB Session

BSP 158

DM Lyu/DM Liang

 

CTTB

CTTB Session (1 week)

BSP 148

DM Lyu/DM Liang

 

CTTB

 

 

 

 

 

 

Language

Sanskrit

SKT 101.3

Lauren Bausch

TBA

IWR

 

 

 

 

 

 

Master’s Thesis

(6 units)

BSP 299

Your Advisor

 

IWR

 

 

 

 

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