Schedule

BSI 2025-2026 Dharma Studies Class
(Curriculum Year 3)

All class times are: 9:00 AM to 11:30, Central Time

• Orientation
  • 8/9/2025
• Dhammapada
  • 1 Presentation
    •  9/13/2025
• Heart Sutra, “The Other Shore” TNH
  • 2 Presentations
    •  9/27/2025  > pp 9-59
    • 10/11/25  > pp 60-123
• Diamond Sutra, A Buddhist Bible Dwight Goddard, ed.
  • 2 Presentations
    • 10/25/2025  > Part 1: pp 87-95
      
    • 11/8/2025  > Part 2: pp 95-107
• Awakening of the Faith, A Buddhist Bible Dwight Goddard, ed.
  • 1 Presentation
    • 11/22/2025  >  pp 357-404
• Amitabha Sutra. “Finding Our True Home: Living in the Pure Land Here and Now” TNH
  • 1 Presentation
    • 12/6/2025
• Sutra of Hui Neng, “A Buddhist Bible” Dwight Goddard, ed.
  • 1 Presentation
    • 12/20/2025  > pp 497-558
• Lotus Sutra, “Peaceful Action, Open Heart” TNH
  • 3 Presentations
    • 1/3/2025  > CH 1-11
      
    •  1/17/2025  > CH 12-23
      
    • 2/7/2026  > CH 24-35
• Vimalakirti Sutra: The Vimalakirti Sutra Burton Watson Translation
  • 1 Presentation
    • 2/21/2026
• Tao Te Ching “A Buddhist Bible” Dwight Goddard, ed.
  • 1 Presentation
    • 3/7/2026  > pp 407-436
• The Universe in a Single Atom His Holiness the Dalai Lama
  • 2 Presentations
    • 3/21/26  > Ch 1-5
      
    • 4/4/26  > Ch 6-conclusion
• End of Academic Year Retreat
  • 4/24/2026 – 4/26/2025