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Required Courses & Credits

Click for list of Sutras and Commentaries (Treatises) recommended by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III for anyone wanting to become a Dharma Master.

   

Buddhist Studies & Practices

Majority of courses are taken on-line.
   

Xuanfa Five Vidyas Seminary

Over 58% of classes taken at seminary.
      3 O-100 Introduction to the Buddhas & Buddhism          3 O-100 Introduction to the Buddhas & Buddhism
Inner Vidya:  Words of the Buddha: Inner Vidya:  Words of the Buddha:
      1    I-001 Correct Way to Listen to Dharma Discourses Seminar         1    I-001 Correct Way to Listen to Dharma        Discourses Seminar
      2    I-002/I-040 Dharma Discourses by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Seminar (two additional courses from this list required)         6   I-002/I-040 Dharma Discourses by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Seminar (six additional courses from this list required)
      3    I-120 Pali Nikayas         3    I-120 Pali Nikayas
      3    I-131/I-140 A Mahayana Sutra         3    I-131/I-140 A Mahayana Sutra
      3    I-150 What Is Cultivation?          3    I-150 What Is Cultivation?
      3    I-153 The 128 Views         3    I-153 The 128 Views
      3 Inner Vidya:  Developing Morality (I-200 or I-201)         3 Inner Vidya:  Developing Morality (I-200 or I-201)
      3 Inner Vidya:  Developing Bodhichitta (I-309 or I-318)          3 Inner Vidya:  Developing Bodhichitta (I-309 or I-318)
      3 Inner Vidya:  Exoteric Path to Liberation (I-405/I-413) (one course from this list required)          1 Healing Vidya:  Rituals & Ceremonies (H-301)
      3 Inner Vidya:  Esoteric Path to Liberation (I-415/I-419 (one course from this list required)          3 Inner Vidya:  Esoteric Path to Liberation (I-415/I-419 (one course from this list required)
      3 Inner Vidya:  Lives of Saints (I-500/I-562)

(one course from this list required)

         1 Sound Vidya: Liturgy & Chanting (S-230)
      3 Inner Vidya:  Developing Wisdom (I-803/I-875) (one course from this list required)          3 Inner Vidya:  Developing Wisdom (I-803/I-875) (one course from this list required)
      3 Inner Vidya:  Developing Concentration

(I-907)—three short meditation retreats. (Additional I-002/I-040 courses may be substituted.)

         6 Inner Vidya:  Developing Concentration-30 day retreat (I-930)
      3 Causality Vidya: (C-100 Dependent Origination)          3 Causality Vidya (C-100 Dependent Origination)
      3 Craftsmanship Vidya            9 Long-term Retreat-year 1(I-999A)
      3 Healing Vidya          9 Long-term Retreat-year 2 (I-999B)
      3 Sound Vidya          9 Long-term Retreat–year 3 (I-999C)
    21 Elective Courses (May be from any of the course categories with no more than 10 credits from attending retreats.)         0 Elective Courses
   72   Total trimester credits required for Certificate or Master of Buddhist Studies & Practice (MBSP) degree       72   Total trimester credits required for Certificate or Master of Cultivation/XiuShih (MXS) degree

Further contact details

Xuanfa Five Vidyas University
P. O. Box 272
Sanger, CA 93657, USA

Phone: +1 (626) 375-6328

E-mail: contact@xfvu.org