This course explores classical Tibetan literature and religious systems through a variety of genres in the original Tibetan texts.

This tutorial will focus on the translation of Chinese Buddhist texts into English. Texts will be drawn from a variety of time periods, traditions, and genres. Students will gain familiarity with Buddhist Chinese, and the themes and conventions of Buddhist texts.

This tutorial constitutes a reading course in Sanskrit, the classical language of India. Students will read the original texts and translate them into English, analyzing and interpreting the materials in light of the Indian tradition of commentary and exegesis and in light of contemporary scholarly and other analyses of the relevant subject matter: philosophical literature.

This tutorial, the third in a sequence on theopolitical thought in Modern Judaism, will focus on 20th-century Jewish philosophers, especially Hermann Cohen, Martin Buber, Leo Baeck, and Franz Rosenzweig. Their distinct views on the state, the nation, and the theocratic community, as well as how modern Christian thought grappled with similar questions, will be analyzed in the context of a crisis of politics during the interwar period.

This explores Tibetan Buddhist meditation in the Dzokchen curriculum. It is structured by traditional categories, with each interpreted using the Generative Contemplation theoretical framework. This view explores meditation as a human capacity with lexicons of building blocks, grammars of organizational principle, and contexts providing embodied meaning. We will review historical precedents and scientific research. We will consider design thinking for redesigning such practices.

Research on problems leading to a master's thesis.

Systematic readings in a selected topic under detailed supervision.

For master's research, taken before a thesis director has been selected.

For master's thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director.

For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected.