P04X-Advanced Buddhism, Green Tara Dharma Discourse

This course includes a reading of the Dharma Discourse by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III given on the Green Tara Dharma and the Dharma practice manual. It includes a description of the Inner Tantra initiation given in Pasadena, California. You can only receive this Dharma practice from someone who has the ability to perform the  required outer-or inner-tantra initiation. It is only available to Xiuxing Seminary students and requires completion of many courses as prerequisites and approval of the facilitator to receive this initiation. 

The photo is of a painting of Green Tara and 21 Taras by Zhaxi Zhuoma.

To receive credit for this as a LFBCS course, you must follow the three steps in a Final Project/paper to reflect on what parts of the Dharma and Dharma Discourse are most important to you and why. Although you may not share the actual practice, you can still share your experience of the Dharma and what practicing this Dharma means to you with someone.

Prerequisites for this course include “B44-Master Thangtong Gyalpo,” “D01-Listening to the Supreme & Magnificent Dharma,” “D02-On Suffering,” “D02.1-Good Fortune & Wisdom,” “D03-Impermanence,” “D03.1(A)-Buddha Dharma,” “D06-Main & Preliminary Practices,” “D07(A)-Causes & Karmic Affinity,” “D22(A)-Dharma Lineages,”  ”D35(A)-The 128 Evil and Erroneous Views,”  “D44-Esoteric Dharma,”  “D56(A)-Benefiting Living Beings,” “DCB12-The Dharma of Cultivation,”  “DCB21-DCB26-Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra,” “DCB35-Learning from Buddha,” “G03(A),-Evolution of Buddhism & the Five Vidyas,” “G40(A)-Thus Have I seen: The Marvelous Buddha Dharma and It’s Power to Transform,” “P01-Introduction to SAUMOL,”  “P02X-The Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation (SAUMOL)” “P03X-The Vajra Perfection Yoga Dharma,” and “P10-The Great Dharma of Zen Practice.”  Under curriculum click “PREVIEW” to see all prerequisites for receiving initiation.