Courses
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Buddhist Philosophy
Buddhists see philosophy as not just a dry intellectual study of reality or the meaning of life, but a useful step to identify ways we needlessly suffer and to realize the existential happiness of a buddha for ourselves. This two-year course will explore the four main Indian Buddhist philosophical schools and their analytical meditations aimed at developing insight into the nature of mind and its lifeworld.
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Buddhist Meditation Theory
This year-long course introduces three Buddhist mindfulness techniques and the three main Buddhist frameworks for meditation practice aimed at cultivating calmness, compassion, and wisdom. Students will be able to explore these different meditation techniques and to differentiate them from contemporary mindfulness techniques.
Adhimoksa’s courses are taught by
Greg Seton
Dr. Gregory Seton is a professor in the Religion Department at Dartmouth College, where he has taught courses in Tibetan Buddhism since 2016. Prior to that, he was a visiting professor of Buddhist Studies at Mahidol University in Thailand 2014–16, and a DAAD fellow at the University of Hamburg, Germany 2011–2013.
In his academic studies, Greg received his DPhil in Buddhist Studies from the University of Oxford in 2016, supervised by Harunaga Isaacson, Vesna Wallace, and Alexis Sanderson. He received an MA in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies from Naropa University in 2004 and an MA in Religious Studies from University of California Santa Barbara in 2008. He received an MFA equivalent from the American Film Institute in 1992 and a BA in Film Studies from Wesleyan University in 1990. He also studied Western Philosophy at both the undergraduate and graduate level.
In his traditional studies, Greg has been a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhist meditation for thirty-five years and has received extensive training in the philosophical texts and meditative practices of Nyingma and Karma Kagyu Lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. In his academic teaching, he brings his personal experience together with his knowledge of history, philosophy, philology, and language to explain the traditional Buddhist teachings in contemporary terms.