Courses & Prerequisites Required to Receive a Certificate or Masters of Xiuxing (Cultivation)
There are several courses that are required as prerequisites to taking other courses. You must complete “G02-Spiritual Autobiography” where you introspect on your life past and future and consider your goals in pursuing this program. You also need to complete “D01(A)-Listening to the Supreme & Magnificent Dharma” before listening to the other Dharma Discourse courses, “DCB12-The Dharma of Cultivation” before taking several other related courses, and “G03(A)-Evolution of Buddhism” and “D35(A)-The 128 Evil and Erroneous Views before taking the biographies and commentaries. The other prerequisites are noted below. The courses in bold maroon type are available now and linked to the course detailed description.
NEW!!! We have added a new subprogram to the Xuixing Seminary–the Xiuxing Practice Program. Overall, the Xuixing Seminary was established to provide a core of Dharma Discourses and other teachings by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III and related commentaries and biographies of great saints from other Buddhist traditions to prepare an English-speaking student to be able to take his or her own students and set up his/her own temple or Dharma Center to help provide the teachings to others. This can be done by completing either the Certificate or Masters of Xuixing programs. However, we found that many–even most–students were not interested in the certificate or degree, but were more interested in progressing with their own Dharma practice. In addition, Zhaxi Zhuoma wanted a way to share the Solitary Retreat Dharma that the Buddha Master had transmitted to her in 2010. The rinpoche also realized that there were certain minimum requirements that a student needed to be able to benefit from this Dharma. These courses are included as prerequisites or as prerequsities to the other required prerequisites.
I-Xuixing Seminary Certificate of Masters Programs
| Credits | Course ID | Course Title | Prerequisites |
| 0
8 |
G02
?? |
Spiritual Autobiography
ELECTIVES |
None. Required to take before enrolling in any other courses.
Varies |
| 1 | G03(A) | Evolution of Buddhism & Five Vidyas | |
| 0 | G31X | Establishing and Maintaining a Dharma Center | G02 |
| 1 | G40 | Thus Have I Seen: The Marvelous Buddha Dharma and it’s Power to Transform | G02, D56(A) |
| 1 | D01 | Buddhism for Beginners, Listening to the Supreme & Magnificent Dharma | G02 |
| 1
1 |
D02
D02.1 |
Buddhism for Beginners, On Suffering | G02, D01(A)
G02, D01(A) |
| 1 | D03 | Buddhism for Beginners, Impermanence | G02, D01(A) |
| 0
0 |
D03.1(A)
D04(A) |
Buddhism for Beginners, Buddha Dharma | |
| 0 | D07(A) | Buddhism for Beginners, Cause and Karmic Affinity | |
| 0
0 |
D08(A)
D09(A) |
+Buddhism for Beginners, Buddhism is Not a Religion | |
| 1 | D12 | Buddhism for Beginners, Twenty Dharmas | G02, D01(A) |
| 1 | D13 | Buddhism for Beginners, Cutting-off Attachment to Self | G02, D01(A) |
| 1 | D14 | Buddhism for Beginners, Opening the Crown | G02, D01(A) |
| 1 | D15 | Buddhism for Beginners, Supernatural Powers and Qigong | G02, D01(A) |
| 1 | D35 | Buddhism for Beginners: The 128 Evil and Erroneous Views | G02, D01(A) |
| 1 | *D26 | Buddhism for Beginners, Taking Refuge | G02, D01(A) |
| 1 | *D27 | Buddhism for Beginners, Devotion and Guaranteed Delivery Dharma | G02, D01A) |
| 1 | *D28X | Buddhism for Beginners, Vajra Masters | G02, D01(A), D04(A) |
| 1 | *D32X | Buddhism for Beginners, Good Roots | G02, D01(A) |
| 1 | *D49X | Advanced Buddhism, Initiations | G02, D01(A) |
| 1 | *D50 | Advanced Buddhism, Barrier of the Known | G02, D01(A) |
| 1 | *D51 | Advanced Buddhism, Intellectual Frivolity | G02, D01(A) |
| 1 | D52 | Advanced Buddhism, Making Vows | G02, D01(A) |
| 1 | D53 | Advanced Buddhism, Beginning-less-ness | G02, D01(A) |
| 1 | D55 | Advanced Buddhism, Vajra Power, Karmic Affinity, and Repentance | G02, D01(A) |
| 1 | D56 | Advanced Buddhism, Benefiting Living Beings | G02, D01(A) |
| 1 | D57 | Advanced Buddhism, Walking Steadily | G02, D01(A) |
| 1 | D62 | Advanced Buddhism, Differences between Esoteric & Exoteric Buddhism | G02, D01(A), D44(A) |
| 1 | *D80X | Advanced Buddhism, Rituals & Instruments | G02, D01(A) |
| 1 | V01 | Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra | G02 |
| 1 | DCB10 | +The Monk Sutra | G02, D01(A) |
| 1 | DCB12 | The Dharma of Cultivation | G02, D01(A), D35(A) |
| 6 | DCB21-DCB26 | +Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra | G02, D01(A) |
| 1 | DCB35 | Learning From Buddha | DCB12, D22(A) |
| 1 | SB3? | The Nikayas or Agamas (take one of the series) | G02 |
| 2 | SB43 | Avatamsaka Sutra | G02 |
| 2 | SB50 | Shurangama Sutra | G02 |
| 2 | SB54 | Saddharmapundarika (Lotus) Sutra | G02 |
| 2 | C05 | Mulamadhyamakakarika Treatise | G02, D35(A), G03(A) |
| 2 | C18 | Abhidharmakosa | G02, D35(A), G03(A) |
| 2 | C23 | Bodhisattvacharyavatara | G02, D35(A), G03(A) |
| 2 | C40 | Lam Rim Chen Mo | G02, D35(A), G03(A) |
| 1 | P01 | Advanced Buddhism, Introduction to the SAUMOL | G02, D01(A), D02(A), D02.1(A), D03(A), D35(A), D44(A), |
| 1 | P02X | Advanced Buddhism, Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation (SAUMOL) | P01 |
| 1 | P03X or P04X | Advanced Buddhism, The Vajra Perfection Yoga Dharma or Green Tara Dharma Discourse at Dharma Assembly | G02, D01(A), D02(A), D02.1(A), D03(A), D35(A), G03(A), P02X, G36,(VPYD only) |
| 1 | P08 or P09 | Grand Debate or Oral Exam | G02, D01(A) |
| 1 | P10 | The Great Dharma of Zen Practice | G02, D01(A) |
| 3 | B37 | Select 3 biographies ( B24-Lady Niguma, B26-Milarepa & B37-Dolpopa are only biographies ready) | G02, D35(A), G03(A) |
| 2 | R95(A) | +Short Term Retreats (take twice) | G02, P10 |
| 2 | R97X | +Thirty-Day Solitary Retreat | R95, D12(A), D13(A), P02X |
| 1 | P90 or P95 | Final Comprehensive Exam or Dissertation | G02 |
| 72 | TOTAL CREDITS |
NOTE: Not all of the discourses included in the classes marked by an asterisk (*) have been translated into English but will be added when the preliminary translations are available. Should any of the above listed discourses not be available, another course from that category of courses may be substituted. This list may be modified as more discourses or texts are available in English. Any course with a “+” are not available on-line at this time.
introspection.