Ayurveda
Healing Arts Institute
of the Medicine Buddha Healing Center
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California's
Clinical College of Ayurvedic Therapies
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Clinical Ayurveda Therapist (C.A.T.) and our medium level ($7,243
In-Person, $3,210 Distance) 750-hour
Clinical Ayurveda Herbalist
(C.A.H.) and our advanced ($10,908 In-Person, $12962 Distance) 1,200-hour
Clinical Ayurvedic Herbalist Specialist (C.A.H.S.) weekly 1-2
year-long
clinical Certificate
Programs have no relationship
whatsoever with the California College of Ayurveda's
$8,550
624-Hour Clinical
Ayurvedic Specialist (C.A.S.) 1-Weekend-a-Month 24-Month Intensive Program. For
more details on the differences between the two programs, click
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the Ayurvedic educational programs offered by schools in the USA.
Level III:
Clinical Ayurvedic Herbalist Specialist (C.A.H.S.)
and
Level IV:
Master Ayurvedic Herbalist
(M.A.H.) / "Bachelor of Buddhist Ayurvedic
Sciences
Degree" (B.S. Buddhist Ayurveda) is an undergraduate religious healing-arts degree (theological
science) conferring status as a Buddhist Pastoral Counselor (Minister)
with First Amendment Constitutional protections to practice Buddhist
Ayurveda as part of a lay ordination program of the
Medicine Buddha Healing
Center. Based on the
American Herbalist Guild
educational guidelines.
Level V:
Master of Buddhist Ayurvedic
Sciences (M.S. Buddhist Ayurveda)
- A graduate-level religious degree conferring advanced academic and
clinical status as a Buddhist Pastoral Counselor (Minister) to already ordained
lay ministers. Classes, research work and writing a 108 page Master's Thesis to
be based primarily on the work of the Buddhist Ayurvedic Sage Bodhisattva
Nagarjuna: specifically on his redaction of the 200 B.C. Sanskrit Ayurveda
Classic
Sushruta Samhita of the Brihat Trayi Sutras and the Buddhist Avatamsaka
(Flower Adornment) Sutra - the King of Kings of Buddhist scriptures.
Level
VI: Doctor of Buddhist Ayurvedic Science Philosophy (Ph.D. Buddhist Ayurveda)
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National Standards,
Authorization,
Accreditation - We
meet or exceed all
National and California Ayurvedic educational standards and
guidelines and those of the
American Herbalists Guild. The
National Ayurvedic Medical Association
suggests 500 hours of training. The
California Association of Ayurvedic Medicine (C.A.A.M.) mandates a minimum
of 350 hours for
professional membership. The
American
Herbalist Guild
suggests 1,750 hours for
professional membership. We offer a total
of 1,800 hours (M.A.H.),
1,200 hours (C.A.H.S.),
and 750 hours (C.A.H.)
respectively for our three advanced level herbal practitioner certificate
diploma programs and are thus positioned to help our graduates to pursue
professional level membership in the above professional organizations.
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Ven. Losang Jinpa, D.Ayur,
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Level I:
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Medicine Buddha Healing Center
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Ayurvedic Ethics - (Buddhist,
Vedic, Yogic Precepts) -
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Who We Are? As a non-profit 501(c)3 religious organization (a Buddhist Ayurvedic Ministry, Institute, Center and Temple) called the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute (Medicine Buddha Healing Center) founded on July 4, 2000 and teaching traditional spiritual Buddhist Ayurveda healing techniques from India, Tibet, Nepal and China. Our main aim is to preserve the rich and ancient physical-psycho-spiritual healing traditions of East Indian Buddhist-Vedic-Yogic Ayurvedic Medicine and Buddhist Tibetan Medicine and impart this time-tested wisdom to younger generations. We offer informal training classes and formal apprenticeship leading to certification and ceremonial lay ordination as a Buddhist Ayurveda Pastoral Counselor to practice Buddhist Ayurveda. Buddhist Ayurveda is the classical spiritual Ayurveda practiced in the time of Shakyamuni Buddha (550 B.C. to 1000 A.D.) as taught at Buddhist Ayurvedic Monasteries such as the 5th century B.C. Indian Nalanda University, the world's first university. Buddhist Ayurveda, the elder foundation for the younger Tibetan Medicine (700 A.D.), is based on the ancient sacred Sanskrit, Tibetan and Chinese classic Sutra scriptures and mantras of the Medicine Buddha, Avalokiteshvara Guan Yin Bodhisattva, Sushruta Nagarjuna Bodhisattva, Ganesha, Patanjali, Vagbhata and other great healer sages and healing Bodhisattvas of Ayurveda. We view the generous big-hearted Buddhist Ayurveda principles more recently manifesting in the modern day examples of contemporary sage Bodhisattva healers such as our inspiring teachers the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua, Dr. Vasant Lad, B.A.M.S., M.A.Sc., and Clown Bodhisattva Dr. Patch Adams, M.D. The Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute teaches Ayurveda that includes Buddhism... and a Buddhism that included Ayurveda. Ayurveda "hugs all aspects of life" and "Buddhism encompassed the entire Dharma Realm." In the traditional Ch'an (Zen) Buddhist metaphor, they are both "fingers pointing at the moon." For more on this, please see our Spiritual Mission, the school's Buddhist Ayurvedic Herbalist Ethical Precepts, and our definition of the spiritual missions of a Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist or Clinical Ayurveda Therapist or Pastoral Counselor or Buddhist Ayurveda Minister. Download MS Word Brochure on the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute (1 MB) Download MS Word Brochure on the the Medicine Buddha Healing Center (3 MB)
Our Class Locations: All regular Tuesday night Ayurvedic Psychology classes (7:30 to 9:30 PM) and one two-day weekend per month are held at the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery (2304 McKinley Avenue at Bancroft - 1 block west of Martin Luther King near Berkeley High School track and field) (click here for directions). A 10 minutes walk (five blocks) from Downtown Berkeley BART station - street parking is easy. Check the schedule for more details. Although unaffiliated with us, we thank the Monastery for their kindred spirit support of our classes. Other classes are
held at the:
Open to the Public Ayurveda Classes for 2006: NOTE: Please R.S.V.P.
for these classes by calling 510-292-6696 - leave your name, e-mail address and
phone number.
Please CALL US,
no e-mail available.
[Most Sundays in 2006 from 2 PM to 3 PM at the Elephant Pharmacy in Berkeley, California (click here for directions). Join our weekly Saturday afternoon "Wisdom-Memory Like an Elephant" discussion at the Elephant Pharmacy to learn the Ayurvedic approach to healing. Each week at Elephant, Master Herbalist Losang Jinpa, D.Ayur, M.A.H. will discuss the Ayurvedic perspectives on herbs various ailments, organs, systems of the body-mind. He will then offer free 10 minute herbal consultations (including traditional Ayurvedic pulse diagnosis and tongue diagnosis) with clients at the Elephant Pharmacy from approximately 3 PM to 7 PM. <top>
[Tuesday Night Ayurvedic Psychology, Ayurvedic Herbology and AyurYoga Classes at the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery (click here for directions). Losang Jinpa, D.Ayur resumed teaching weekly Tuesday night classes in Berkeley in January 2005 at the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery / Institute for World Religions (2304 McKinley Avenue at Bancroft - 1 block west of Martin Luther King near Berkeley High School track and field) (click here for directions). Although unaffiliated with us, we thank the Monastery for their kindred spirit support of our classes. Please R.S.V.P. at 510-292-6696. E-mail: Not Available, please CALL us. To understand why we don't offer e-mail access to us, click here to understand the Buddhist Ayurveda perspective on Computers, Television and Genetic Engineering. Suggested Donation: FREE to all living beings (The Dharma is a priceless jewel, so a price cannot be assigned to it) There is a free optional AyurYoga - Dhyana Samadhi (Ch'an) meditation portion of the program. This meditation portion begins at 5 PM until 6:15 PM with 15 minutes of self-guided Ayurvedic Yoga warm up exercises, followed by a silent cross legged meditation sit for 1 hour in the Buddha Hall of the Monastery. There is an optional Evening Puja Ceremony from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM involving mantra chanting, Heart Sutra, Amitabha Sutra recitation, 88 Buddhas Repentance Ceremony and walking meditation (circumambulation). The Ayurvedic Psychology - AyurYoga series, taught by Master Herbalist Losang Jinpa, D.Ayur, M.A.H., is based on teachings Losang learned and practiced over the last 8 years of dedicated scholarship. This includes his most current studies in the recent 2 month-long 260 hour Shurangama Sutra and Mantra Summer Retreat sponsored by the Dharma Realm Buddhist Youth at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas combined with the Ayurvedic Psychology and Shad Darshan (Six Philosophies of India) he formally studied during his six years apprenticeship with his Ayurveda teacher Dr. Vasant Lad, B.A.M.S., M.A.Sc. of the Ayurvedic Institute. Buddhists teachings on meditation and compassion have begun to resonate with many in the West. Sutras, or sacred texts, offer deeper understanding into Buddhist practice. One such text is the Shurangama Sutra in which the Buddha gives detailed description of the fundamental nature of reality, explores the deepest levels of the mind, reveals the origin of the universe, and shares ways to apply this knowledge towards one’s personal quest for awakening. Come join us for an ongoing year-long course of self-exploration and study of the Buddha's most lofty teaching leading to perfect awakening. The lively and inspiring class combined with both Buddhist Ayurvedic theory (gnosis) and practice (praxis) will include extensive handouts, readings, exercises, meditations, more than 1000 colorful PowerPoint slides with archival digital audios made each week for your downloading and review and some distinguished guest lecturers from the Ayurvedic, Tibetan, Chinese healing traditions.` What is Shurangama Sutra? We picked this sutra because it was the first sutra lectured in America by the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua's City of Ten Thousand Buddhas (www.DRBA.org). In the summer of 1968, Master Hua led the first summer Shurangama retreat at the Buddha’s Lecture Hall in San Francisco. The sutra is said to be "the King among All Sutras" and is crowned the sutra foremost in developing wisdom. <top> The following is a historical and literary description of the sutra. While many of the terms might not be familiar to you, they should not be a source of worry or intimidation as they will be covered thoroughly during the September through June Ayurvedic Psychology course. "In the Mahayana Buddhist tradition, the
Shurangama Sutra is an essential text, equal in importance to the
Avatamsaka Sutra and the Lotus Sutra. The Shurangama centers around a
Socratic dialogue between the Buddha Shakyamuni and his brilliant but
erring cousin Ananda. Through the dialogue, the Buddha peels away layer
upon layer of appearance to reveal the teaching of the Tathagatagarbha,
the Buddha-Matrix, which is the fundamental emptiness that contains all
things, the absolute in its final identity with the relative. The Buddha’s
explanation of this "ultimate truth that is the Middle Way" together with
a mapping of the steps by which beings have lost that Way, requires the
full first half of the Sutra. In the second half, Ananda is instructed how
to follow the same steps back to identity with the source – that is, how
to realize enlightenment. The remarkable section of twenty-five
enlightenment narratives culminates in the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara’s
recommendation to "turn the hearing around to hear the true nature." The
Buddha then describes 55 stages of enlightenment; identifies the karma
that leads to birth at the various levels of beings; praises the many
benefits of reciting the Shurangama Mantra; and makes clear that without
pure moral conduct there can be no success in self-cultivation. Finally,
the Buddha warns against the demonic states of mind that can overtake
advanced meditators who are sloppy in their morals or who lack
understanding. The sutra presents, then, at once a coherent explanation of
being and a manual for spiritual practice based on that explanation, all
set forth within a narrative of a dramatic encounter between an
argumentative disciple and an infinitely patient teacher on a single
summer afternoon." All classes offered by the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute are free of charge (by donation [see below] ). No one turned away due to lack of funds. Open to persons of all faiths and persuasions.
It is recommended that students of the
Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute also attend the weekly Saturday night (7
PM to 9:30 PM)
Avatamsaka Sutra
(The King of Kings
of Buddhist Sutras) lectures at the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery.
The Avatamsaka Sutra is lectured every
Saturday at the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery by the American Buddhist
monk Rev. Heng Sure. Please drop by in Berkeley or to listen online
to the audiocast / videocast at:
http://www.bttsonline.org/Webcast.aspx. The Avatamsaka Sutra was brought to our Earthly realm from the
Dragon realm by the Buddhist Ayurvedic Sage Nagarjuna Bodhisattva during
his dhyana samadhi. Sri Nagarguna was a famous Ayurvedic physician
and the editor/redactor of the
Sushruta Samhita (the second most important
Ayurvedic medical text). This Summer, August 1, 2006 to end of August,
2006 Losang will be away on retreat again for the Summer Break and hence
the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute will be closed for the summer.
He will be studying the Avatamsaka Sutra there at the
City of Ten Thousand
Buddhas. Students enrolled in the Ayurveda Healing Arts
Institute are welcome to join Losang there for the summer retreat.
The First Practice of the Bodhisattva
Path: As a Buddhist Dharma Center and Institute, we prefer to offer all of our Ayurveda classes and Ayurvedic healing services on a suggested donation basis (called dana paramita in Indian Sanskrit), rather than ask for a fixed sum. This is the first of the Six Practices of the Bodhisattva.
This means that our ministry (Medicine Buddha Healing Center) and its school (Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute) relies on donations for all expenses. So that dana paramita (the perfection of the practice of giving) may take root here in the West, we ask your reflection on this fundamental Buddhist-Yogic practice. From the time of the Buddha (550 B.C.), the practice of Dharma (teaching and healing) has traditionally happened within a field of generosity. We believe that Dharma practice unfolds best for everyone concerned when the teaching-healing and the support for the teaching-healing are given freely. We follow the generous Bodhisattva spirit and vows of Dr. Patch Adams, and Dr. Vasant Lad, who have inspired our both our format of giving and our teachings - healing practices. We agree with and emulate
Patch Adams'
Bodhisattva spirit of Dana Paramita when he said in his book
Gesundheit:
"Greed is one of society’s worst malignancies, and it appears to have
metastasized to every corner of the earth. The sense that greed is
incurable may well account for its escalation. Certainly one of greed’s
most devastating symptoms is cynicism. Unless
greed and its symptoms are
excised, society will perish. We believe that a society must care for its
population enough to take care of its needs. Treatment of disease and
provision for health care are fundamental to a society’s sound survival.
These needs should be fulfilled as a gift to its population, not as a
commodity to be bought and sold. In a
profit-oriented system devoted to
grabbing the most income the traffic will bear, the goal will be disease
care. In a service-oriented system devoted to keeping the population at its
healthiest, the goal will be
disease prevention.
The Gesundheit Institute
will never charge money for its medical services. If it is to survive, its
staff, patients, and friends will cooperate and donate everything needed for
it to flourish as a community hospital. We hope to
eliminate the factor
of debt entirely from the healing interaction. Although this leaves us
vulnerable to the wishes of the greater community, paradoxically, we believe
that vulnerability is our greatest strength. We believe it is
imperative to need the community we serve because the
community also needs
us. This is basic to interdependence, which we feel is necessary
for a healthy society. We must, as individuals and as a free society,
stop our worship of things and wealth and put our sense of
richness in
things everybody can have in abundance without excluding anyone. These
riches include faith,
fun, and the breathtaking bounty of nature and
friendship. This kind of medicine cannot be bought or sold. By not charging
patients… we are freer to
be silly and to
build friendships. We also believe
that not charging money is very good
malpractice insurance. We hope that our
patients will take the generosity with them when they leave and spread it in
their own communities. This is the heart of our
social revolution: to
take the most expensive service in America and
give it away for free." "Practical
Outrageousness - Bringing Humor and Joy into Your Clinical Practice"
Course at University of California San Francisco (UCSF).
Click on any of the above links to see many video clips that show Patch's philosophy on life which has been the model for the Ayurvedic Healing Arts Institute. What is an appropriate amount of dana paramita? We do not charge a fixed amount (but we do have some suggested guidelines) in order to allow each person to answer that question from her/his own heart and circumstances. Our practitioners view dana paramita in this way: "Dana paramita is a gift to ourselves because it is an opportunity to give freely. Giving and receiving are really part of the same whole." Several practical considerations may be of use and interest to actualize the practice of generosity at the Medicine Buddha Healing Center and the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute. Many of our main faculty teachers - practitioners, such as Losang Jinpa, are giving freely of their time, energy, commitment to the Dharma. Emulating monastics, our teachers - practitioners trust that their livelihood needs will be met through donations. Some donations we receive help support other groups (such the Dharma Realm Buddhist Association / Berkeley Buddhist Monastery). It is our hope that those who receive the teaching - healing services of our Center and Institute will share with us a heartfelt commitment to the deep practice of generosity. "Bringing fun, friendship, spirituality and "The healer who regards kindness to humanity as his supreme religion and treats his patients accordingly, succeeds best in achieving his aims of life and obtains the greatest pleasure." -- from Charaka, honored 2nd century B.C. Ayurvedic Physician Giving is a form of the Bodhisattva Vow to save living beings from suffering. The 34 Buddhist Lay Bodhisattva Path Precept Vows requires of us to: "Compassionately help those suffering from ill health." Hence, we study, practice, and teach Indo-Tibetan Ayurvedic healing as "joyful relentless service." as modeled by our inspirations Dr. Patch Adams, M.D. and Dr. Albert Schweitzer, M.D. "You ask me for a motto. Here
it is:
SERVICE." The Most Comprehensive and Low-Cost Distance
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project of We are a Buddhist Ayurveda church school, "The religious Association (Church), that is to say the Ministry, Institute, Center and Temple is in no way under the jurisdiction of the Food and Drug Administration, the Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration, the California State Medical Board, or the California Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education, or any other government organization, agency, or agent (federal, state or local). Any attempt by any government or private agent or agency to regulate our above described religious educational practices and spiritual practices is in violation of our now declared First, Fourth, Sixth and Ninth Amendment Constitutional rights. Notice is hereby given to any person(s) who, acting under the color of the law, intentionally interferes with the free exercise of the rights retained by our Ministry, Institute, Center and Temple and its Pastoral Counselors, faculty, students, congregation, and members under the First, Fourth, Sixth and Ninth Amendments, as enumerated in these Articles of Association |
