Basic Abhidhamma
(E-learning Course)
with Emphasis on Practical Meditation
Mac 2024 to Mac 2025
Aggācāra International College
Click here to register: https://forms.gle/DTEqYcUrikXhHdfW9
Introduction
This is the basic Abhidhamma course for the adult students
who would like to learn Abhidhamma systematically. It includes the ultimate reality of the mind and body, kamma,
cognitive process, meditation objects, Dependent Origination and Paṭṭhāna. The focus will be on the theory of Abhidhamma
and how to apply this knowledge in practical meditation. By the end of this
course, they would be able to verify for themselves the Buddha’s teachings
regarding mind and matter, causation and the working of kamma.
The teacher for this course is Ven Sayagyi Cālā Therī from Malaysia. She is the founder of Aggācāra International College (2023) and one of the chief nuns of Aggācāra International Theravāda Education and Meditation Center (2014). In the year 2006, she was ordained in Buddhist Hermitage Lunas, a Mahasi meditation branch. Currently, she is studying for Ph.D. (major in Pāḷi) in International Theravāda Buddhist Missionary University (ITBMU), Yangon. She has studied Abhidhamma from few teachers, and also taught Pāḷi, Vipassana and Abhidhamma in Malaysia in English and Chinese.
Admission
Requirements for Students
1.
Be able to read and write English
2. Knowledge of Pāḷi is preferred, but not compulsory
Level/Method
of Study
1. Free
and Easy level
a. 60%
attendance
b. Writing and submission of assignments are not compulsory, but preferable.
Certificate level
a. 70% attendance
b. Writing and submission of assignments are compulsory.
Mark: Attendance: 30%, Assignment: 60%
Upon completion of the course and with proper submission of assignments, the students who have signed up for diploma will be awarded with “Diploma in Basic Abhidhamma”.
2. Diploma
level
a. 70% attendance
b. Writing and submission of assignments
at the end of semester
c. Exam (after second semester and fourth semester)
Mark: Attendance:
30%, Assignment: 40%, Exam: 30%
Upon completion of the course
and with proper submission of assignments, the students who have signed up for
diploma will be awarded with “Diploma in Basic Abhidhamma”.
Course
duration:
Semester 1: Mac to April 2023
(*One month holiday*)
Semester 2: Mid-June to Aug 2023
Semester 3: Mid-Sep to Nov 2023
(*One month holiday*)
Semester 4: Jan to Mac 2024 (break for Chinese New Year)
There is 2 hours for each class per week. Discussion and Q
& A will be done at the end of the class. If necessary, the class will be
held twice a week. Tentatively, it will be on Wednesday (or Friday) night, at
8pm.
Medium of communication: online via
Zoom,
Whatsapp, Google Classroom.
Lecture notes and references will
be given ahead before the class. The reference books such as Comprehensive
Manual of Abhidhamma and Handbook of Abhidhamma Studies can be downloaded from
Google Classroom.
Course fee: None
This course is provided free to all. If
the students wish to donate for the teacher’s teaching, at the end of the
course, please give your donation to the charity and education projects of
Aggācāra centre.
Registration
After checking your own schedule and evaluating your own interest, if you
are really keen to join this course, please register via this Google Form:
https://forms.gle/DTEqYcUrikXhHdfW9
(You need to log/sign in first.)
If you encounter problems in registration
and cannot send your details, please email or send a message to us via
Whatsapp.
May
you all be well and happy!
With mettā from all of us,
Sayagyi Aggavatī and Sayagyi Cālā Therī,
Founders,
Aggācāra International College
Website: https://Aggacara.blogspot.com
Email: aggacara2013@gmail.com
Whatsapp: +95-9-796609140,
+6016-4751273.
