These notes cover all five weeks of the course
COURSE OVERVIEW
TEACHERS’ NOTES
Download
The Greater Mandala Book
These beautifully produced books are available from Windhorse Publications. Please order them in advance of the course so that you can give copies to participants.
Note that you will need to order them in bundles of ten. And you might want to order extra for your bookshop – they’re a great way for people to encounter Bhante for the first time.
Purchase The Greater Mandala books
We’d strongly recommend using the printed books. However, if you still need the eBook versions, here are the links. Please share the links themselves, rather than this page.
Document with facing pages (normal format)
Document with single pages (often easier to use for printing)
Ratnaguna on The Greater Mandala
In this video Ratnaguna shares some reflections on the theme. The contents here are not necessarily directly related to leading the course, but provide a fascinating source of material for further study, either with your team or as an addition to the existing course. See the course notes for more details.
FURTHER REFLECTIONS
Other Resourses
Green Tārā and the Fourth Lakṣaṇa (2017) Sangharakshita
The Greater Mandala of Aesthetic Appreciation (2015) Maitreyabandhu
Eros and Beauty Talks (2014)
Talks by Subhuti and Padmavajra
Living in the Greater Mandala (2015)
Parami
‘In Beauty May I Walk’ – Beauty As the Fourth Laksana (2019) Punyamala
These notes cover all five weeks of the course
COURSE OVERVIEW
TEACHERS’ NOTES
Download
The Greater Mandala Book
These beautifully produced books are available from Windhorse Publications. Please order them in advance of the course so that you can give copies to participants.
Note that you will need to order them in bundles of ten. And you might want to order extra for your bookshop – they’re a great way for people to encounter Bhante for the first time.
Purchase The Greater Mandala books
We’d strongly recommend using the printed books. However, if you still need the eBook versions, here are the links. Please share the links themselves, rather than this page.
Document with facing pages (normal format)
Document with single pages (often easier to use for printing)
Ratnaguna on The Greater Mandala
In this video Ratnaguna shares some reflections on the theme. The contents here are not necessarily directly related to leading the course, but provide a fascinating source of material for further study, either with your team or as an addition to the existing course. See the course notes for more details.
FURTHER REFLECTIONS
Other Resourses
Green Tārā and the Fourth Lakṣaṇa (2017) Sangharakshita
Eros and Beauty Talks (2014)
Talks by Subhuti and Padmavajra
The Greater Mandala of Aesthetic Appreciation (2015) Maitreyabandhu
Living in the Greater Mandala (2015)
Parami
‘In Beauty May I Walk’ – Beauty As the Fourth Laksana (2019) Punyamala
The Greater Mandala
A course in going beyond self and other
There is an inherent tension in walking the Buddhist path. On the one hand, it involves cultivating a deep sense of ease, relaxation, and contentment, in which reality effortlessly opens up to us. On the other hand, we develop a profound love and compassion for other beings, in which we feel that their welfare is as important as our own, motivating ourselves to help them in any way that we can.
There is an inherent tension in walking the Buddhist path. On the one hand, it involves cultivating a deep sense of ease, relaxation, and contentment, in which reality effortlessly opens up to us. On the other hand, we develop a profound love and compassion for other beings, in which we feel that their welfare is as important as our own, motivating ourselves to help them in any way that we can.
On this course, we will explore how ultimately the two dimensions are resolved in the realisation that the duality of self and other is a misperception of our experience.
Participants will receive the book The Greater Mandala as part of the course.
The Greater Mandala
A course in going beyond self and other
There is an inherent tension in walking the Buddhist path. On the one hand, it involves cultivating a deep sense of ease, relaxation, and contentment, in which reality effortlessly opens up to us. On the other hand, we develop a profound love and compassion for other beings, in which we feel that their welfare is as important as our own, motivating ourselves to help them in any way that we can.
These two dimensions can seem to be irreconcilable opposites that put us in an uncomfortable dilemma – should we concentrate on our own spiritual development or spend our lives helping others? Or should we try to strike a balance?
On this course, we will explore how ultimately the two dimensions are resolved in the realisation that the duality of self and other is a misperception of our experience.
Participants will receive the book The Greater Mandala as part of the course.