Tibetan Renaissance Seminar > Weekly Calendar

Week by Week Calendar of Readings & Activities from the Tibetan Renaissance Seminar

1. Prior to class: including background reading
2. Week 1 (January 22): The Early Spread of the Teachings during the Great Tibetan Empire & Historiography
3. Week 2 (January 29): The Inception of the Later Spread with Temple Building & Monasticism: The Emergent Cult of Sacred Places
4. Week 3 (February 5): Tantric Translators: The New Cult of Translation and Tantra, Charisma and Biographies on the Margins of Monasticism
5. Week 4 (February 12): Nyingma & Treasure Tradition
6. Week 5 (February 19): The Sakya: The Path and the Fruit Esoteric Synthesis & the Intersection of Religion and Clans
7. Week 6 (February 26): The Sakya: The Path and the Fruit Esoteric Synthesis & the Intersection of Religion and Clans
8. Week 7 (March 12): Bon
9. Week 8 (March 19): The Kagyu Sprawl, the Great Seal (Mahāmudrā) & the Question of Religious Experience
10. Week 9 (March 26): Kadampa
11. Week 10 (April 2): Exoteric Scholasticism and the Cult of Reason
12. Week 11 (April 9): Avalokiteśvara & Deity Cults
13. Week 12 (April 15): The Wheel of Time Tantra
14. Week 13 (April 30): Peace-Making and Object of Cutting; Tibetan Woman in Religion
15. Week 14 (May 3): The Great Perfection (rdzogs chen)