Fall 2026 Course Offering
The fall semester 2026 runs from August 19 to December 18, 2026.
Please click here to view the schedule for the Fall Semester.
UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL COURSES:
Himalayan Languages
- CLAN 101: Buddhist Literary Chinese I (Online)
- ELAN 102: Academic English I (On Campus)
- NLAN 101: Nepali I – Masterclass 1 (On Campus)
- NLAN 101: Nepali I – Masterclass 2 (Online)
- NLAN 201: Nepali III – Masterclass 1 (On Campus)
- NLAN 201: Nepali III – Masterclass 2 (Online)
- SLAN 101: Sanskrit I – Lecture 1 (On Campus)
- SLAN 101: Sanskrit I – Lecture 2 (Online)
- SLAN 201: Sanskrit III – Lecture 1 (On Campus)
- SLAN 201: Sanskrit III – Lecture 2 (Online)
- SLAN 301: Sanskrit V – Lecture 1 (Online)
- TLAN 101: Classical Tibetan I – Lecture 1 (On Campus)
- TLAN 101: Classical Tibetan I – Lecture 2 (Online)
- TLAN 103: Colloquial Tibetan I – Masterclass 1 (On Campus)
- TLAN 103: Colloquial Tibetan I – Masterclass 2 (Online)
- TLAN 201: Classical Tibetan III – Lecture 1 (On Campus)
- TLAN 201: Classical Tibetan III – Lecture 2 (Online)
- TLAN 203: Colloquial Tibetan III – Masterclass 1 (On Campus)
- TLAN 203: Colloquial Tibetan III – Masterclass 2 (Online)
- TLAN 301/401: Classical Tibetan Translation Project I/Advanced Classical Tibetan Seminar I – Lecture 1 (On Campus)
- TLAN 301/401: Classical Tibetan Translation Project I/Advanced Classical Tibetan Seminar I – Lecture 2 (Online)
- TLAN 303: Colloquial Tibetan V – Masterclass 1 (On Campus)
Buddhist Studies Courses
All Buddhist Studies courses are offered on-campus only, except for BSTD 209 which is an online course .
- BSTD 101: Buddhist Traditions: History and Culture I (On Campus)
- OL BSTD 101: Buddhist Traditions: History and Culture I (Online)
- BSTD 203: Fundamentals of Buddhist Philosophy
- BSTD 205: Anthropological Study of Nepalese Religions
- BSTD 209: Buddhist Ethics: Focus on Animals (Online)
- BSTD 409: Independent Research Project
- BSTD 410: Discovering Lumbini and the Annual Fall Seminar led by Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche
- BSTD 416: BA Dissertation
Specialized Textual Studies
These courses are taught by monastic Khenpo/Lopon and are offered both on-campus (for-credit) and concurrently online (not-for-credit)
The following texts will be taught over two semesters, the fall semester 2026 covering the first part and the remaining part scheduled for spring 2027:
- TSTD 101: Buddhist Philosophy and Hermeneutics I – Bodhicaryāvatāra (The Way of the Bodhisattva) བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་ by Śāntideva (Part 1)
- TSTD 201/301/401: Advanced Buddhist Philosophy and Hermeneutics I, III, V - Gateway to Knowledge, Mipham Rinpoche, mkhas pa la ‘jug pa ༼མཁས་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ༽ Vol 1
- TSTD 305/405: Buddhist Philosophical Discourse I, III – Jewel Ornament of Liberation, Gampopa, dwags po thar rgyan ༼དྭགས་པོ་ཐར་རྒྱན༽ (untranslated)
- ATSP 502: Advanced Textual Study Primary II – Gateway to Knowledge, Mipham Rinpoche, mkhas pa la ‘jug pa ༼མཁས་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ༽ Vol 3 (untranslated)
- TSTD 701: Buddhist Philosophical Traditions I – Gateway to Knowledge, Mipham Rinpoche, mkhas pa la ‘jug pa ༼མཁས་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ༽ Vol 3 (untranslated)
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GRADUATE LEVEL COURSES:
MA in Buddhist Studies
- ATSE 501/601: Advanced Textual Study English I & III – (Gateway to Knowledge, Mipham Rinpoche, mkhas pa la ‘jug pa ༼མཁས་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ༽ Vol 1 )
- ATSP 501/601: Advanced Textual Study Primary I & V – Jewel Ornament of Liberation, Gampopa, dwags po thar rgyan ༼དྭགས་པོ་ཐར་རྒྱན༽
- ATSP 502: Advanced Textual Study Primary II – Gateway to Knowledge, Mipham Rinpoche, mkhas pa la ‘jug pa ༼མཁས་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ༽ Vol 3 (untranslated)
- BSTD 505: Research Seminar I
- SLAN 501: Sanskrit Language Study I
- TLAN 501: Tibetan Language Study I
- BSTD 601: MA Thesis Workshop
- BSTD 603: Research Seminar III
- BSTD 610: MA Thesis
MA in Translation, Textual Interpretation, and Philology
- TSTD 701: Buddhist Philosophical Traditions I – Gateway to Knowledge, Mipham Rinpoche, mkhas pa la ‘jug pa ༼མཁས་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ༽ Vol 3
- BSTD 705: Methodology Seminar I
- BSTD 707: Translation Workshop I
- BSTD 801: Independent Readings
- BSTD 802: Guided Studies
- BSTD 803: Methodology Seminar III
- BSTD 810: MA Thesis
