Here is a list of the classes given in each Mahayana course offered in Nalandabodhi Path of Study. The complete syllabus and selection of reading materials is available to Nalandabodhi members and participants enrolled in the Path of Study program. You can take these classes at Nalandabodhi Centers and Study Group locations, or through online study.
The Mahayana Series: Compassion Without Limit
Introduction to the Mahayana: The Heart of Daring (MAH
300)
Class 1: The Self is Free, Appearances are Empty, and Emptiness is
Luminous
One Dharma, One Path, One Goal
The Ground of Bodhichitta
Class 2: Great Vision -- Bodhichitta
Class 3: The Causes of Buddhahood
Class 4: Wisdom that Knows Itself
Returning to Our Original State
Buddha Nature
The Spiritual Friend
The Mahayana View I: Everything is Mind
(MAH 310)
Class 1: The Overall Picture
The Progressive Stages of the View
Class 2: Dreamlike Experience - Unchaining the Conceptual
Mind
Class 3: All Realms are Mind Only
The Realms of Experience
Class 4: Self-awareness Empty of Duality
Projections of Habit
The Mahayana View II: Not Even a Middle
(MAH 311)
Class 1: The Middle Way View
The Real Emptiness
The Five Reasonings of Nagarjuna
Class 2: Distinguishing Between Absolute and Relative Truth
There is Nothing to Assert
Class 3: All Dharma is Based on the Two Truths
The Nature of All Things
Class 4: Not Just Nothingness
Class 5: Inseparable Clarity and the Mind of Emptiness
Nothing Other Than Your Own Mind
The Mahayana Path I: Bodhicitta and the Six Paramitas (MAH
330)
Class 1: Overview of the Five Paths
Class 2: The Four Immeasurables
Class 3: Practical Application: The Four Immeasurables
Class 4: The Benefits of Generating Bodhichitta
Developing a Courageous Mind: The Causes and Conditions of
Bodhichitta
Class 5: Generating Bodhichitta: The Seven Branch Prayer
The Bodhisattva Vow
Class 6: Ultimate Bodhichitta
The Six Paramitas
The Mahayana Path II: Seven Points of Mind Training (MAH
331)
Class 1: The Fragrance of Sandalwood: Following the Spiritual
Friend
The Practice of Mindfulness
Class 2: The Seven Points of Mind Training I: Training in Ultimate
Bodhichitta
Class 3: The Seven Points of Mind Training II: Training in
Relative Bodhichitta
Class 4: Practical Application: The Seven Points of Mind
Training
Class 5: The Seven Points of Mind Training III: Taking Adverse
Conditions Onto the Path
The Seven Points of Mind Training IV: Completing Training in Life
and Death
Class 6: The Seven Points of Mind Training V: Evaluation,
Ethics, and Guidelines
The Stages of Shamatha Meditation: Nine Stages of Resting the
Mind
Path and Fruition: The Ten Bhumis, the Three Kayas, and
the Five Wisdoms (MAH 350)
Class 1: Madhyamaka Reasonings I: Vajra Slivers
Class 2: Madhyamaka Reasonings II: Analyzing Result & Both
Cause and Result
Madhyamaka Reasonings III & IV: Beyond One and Many &
Dependent Arising
Class 2: Vipashyana Meditation Instruction
Class 3: Practical Application: The Five Reasonings of
Madhyamaka
Class 4: The Bodhisattva Bhumis 1-5
Class 5: The Bodhisattva Bhumis 6-10
The 11th Bhumi
The Three Kayas
Class 6: Transformation of the 5 Skandhas into the 5 Buddha
Wisdoms
Transformation of the 8 Consciousnesses into the 5 Buddha
Wisdoms
