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2010

This year at IBA we have a popular 10-Day Retreat and three enriching one-month Dharma courses of in-depth philosophical study, each with a different focus and 4 week duration. Students are welcome to attend any one of the courses or the entire program. Our courses are taught in the traditional manner by senior khenpos (abbot scholars). There is a daily review session with Q&A.
 
Image Course on Abhidharma – June 7 to July 2
Khenpo Jamyang Tenzin will present a detailed line by line explanation of Gorampa’s authoritative summary of Abhidharma directly in English. The main topic in question is how our senses interact with different objects to produce the various consciousnesses. The third section is a very interesting examination of the difficult points of the aggregates, specially the 4th and 5th, that of volition and consciousness. Here he delineates the different types and levels of mind.
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Image Course on Logic and Debate – July 5 – 30
Khenpo Dr. Ngawang Jorden will lecture directly in English focusing on the third chapter of Sapan’s Gateway: the practice of debate. This particular chapter, on pramāṇa, elucidates the Indian and Tibetan traditions of valid cognition and logical reasoning. In this text, Sakya Pandita clearly defines the way in which a debate is to be carried out in order for it to become a useful method of investigation.
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Image Course on Interdependence – August 2 – 27
This text provides a thorough explanation of the process by which ordinary sentient beings are bound to saṃsāra through the sequential arising of the twelve links of dependent origination, and the way in which practitioners develop the ability to relinquish these fetters, one by one, in reverse order.
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Image Annual 10-Day Retreat – September 1-10, 2010
Our annual ten-day retreat offers a wonderful opportunity to delve more deeply into the Dharma and to reconnect with one’s stable center of practice. The retreat master will guide the participants on how to concentrate their minds and also on how to tame their self-centered emotions in order to develop an altruistic disposition.
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