Buddhist Ayurveda School in California - Suggested Tuition Donations

Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute
of the Medicine Buddha Healing Center

Your Californian College of Clinical Ayurvedic Therapies
from the Buddhist - Yogic - Vedic Tradition

Home Page - www.Ayurveda-California.com
Visit our future site: www.Ayurveda-Institute.org

2210 McKinley Avenue, Unit 4 (1 minute walk from Downtown Berkeley BART 1 block west of Martin Luther King, between Allston and Bancroft across from Bank of America Public Parking Lot - Click here for directions), Berkeley, California, 94703 USA
(1) 510-292-6696 - Please CALL US, no e-mail available (Namo AT Shurangama.com).

"Om Namo Aryavalokiteshvaraya Bodhisattvaya Mahasattvaya Maha Karunikaya Om Sarva Abhaya!"

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Program Costs – Tuition, Fees, Books, Herbs, Miscellaneous Expenses

The Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute of the Medicine Buddha Healing Center offers the following four comprehensive Ayurvedic Diploma Certificate Programs:

he Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute of the Medicine Buddha Healing Center offers the following four comprehensive Ayurvedic Diploma Certificate Programs:

Mastery Level Diploma Certificate Program Program Hours Trimester Unit Credits Tuition Donation

Level I Clinical Ayurveda Therapist (C.A.T.)
Distance Learning Diploma

Includes 10 CD-ROMs and
Michael Dick's 5th Edition of the
Ayurvedic Herbology Handbook 225 audio/video class hours 15 units
$3350 Donation for Distance Learning

Level I Clinical Ayurveda Therapist (C.A.T.)
In-Person Classroom-based Diploma

Includes unlimited weekly clinical apprenticeship with Losang Jinpa, D.Ayur, M.S. Buddhist Ayurveda and all weekly classes and monthly seminars in Berkeley, California.
Also includes 10 CD-ROMs for use as homework study and
printed version of Michael Dick's 5th Edition of the
Ayurvedic Herbology Handbook 225
in-person classroom hours 15 units
$4100 Donation for Berkeley Classes

Level II Clinical Ayurvedic Herbalist (C.A.H.)
Distance Learning Diploma 750
audio/video class hours 50 units
$8990 Donation for
Distance Learning

Level II Clinical Ayurvedic Herbalist (C.A.H.)
In-Person Classroom-based Diploma 750
in-person classroom hours 50 units
$11108
Donation for
Berkeley Classes

Level III Clinical Ayurvedic Herbalist Specialist (C.A.H.S.) Diploma
and
Associate of Applied Ayurvedic Science Degree (A.A.A.S.) 1,200
audio/video class hours 80 units
$12962
Donation for
Distance Learning

Level IV Master Ayurvedic Herbalist (M.A.H.) Diploma
and
Bachelor of BuddHA Science: Buddhist Ayurveda Degree.
BuddHA. means "Buddhist Healing Ayurveda" 1,800
audio/video class hours 120 units
$16482
Donation for
Distance Learning

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Full Course Details for All Four Ayurvedic Certificate Programs (click here to download detailed Excel spreadsheet)

2006-2007 Class Schedule in Excel format (click here for full schedule)

Remember, no student is EVER turned away due to lack of funds. So, if you cannot afford $3350 please sign up for the course by making the donation that is within your budget.

See the Bodhisattva Way - click here to listen to a lecture on "Path of the Bodhisattva".

See the Seven Guidelines for Recognizing True Teachers - click here to listen to a lecture on "What is a Bodhisattva?"

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The Most Comprehensive Professional Ayurvedic Education in the U.S.A.

Inexpensive Community College Level Pricing

We have endeavored to offer the Most Comprehensive Ayurvedic education in the United States and have hence based the pricing for our Distance Learning (Correspondence Course) programs on the low-cost "Community College" model. State-supported Community Colleges in the United States, such as San Francisco’s City College or Oakland’s Laney College typically charge $26 to $75 per trimester unit for distance learning. In this spirit we are offering our distance learning programs at the affordable suggested donation rate of $60 per trimester unit (66 cents per hour).

No student is EVER turned away from our Programs due to lack of money. Hence, if you can't afford to pay $3350 please sign up anyway for the course by making the donation that is within your ability to pay.

Total Tuition Cost for Clinical Ayurveda Therapist (C.A.T.) Diploma – 225 hours, 15 trimester units

Weekly In-Person Classroom-based Instructor-Led Learning in Berkeley, California $1,800 Total Tuition Donation

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Remember, no student is EVER turned away due to lack of funds. So, if you cannot afford $3350 please sign up for the course by making the donation that is within your budget.

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Patch Adams’ and Dr. Lad’s Inspiration for Low Cost Health Education and Ayurvedic Services

The Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute’s philosophy of offering affordable yet complete Ayurvedic education combined with an active Ayurvedic clinic (Medicine Buddha Healing Center) providing health consultations and therapeutic massage on a "sliding scale" donation only basis is based on a synthesis of the ancient Buddhist, Yogic, Hindu, Ayurvedic, Confucian, and Taoist concepts of generosity and of giving of oneself and one’s talents as the best medicine to relieve suffering. These ancient Bodhisattva inspirations are strengthened with the modern day bighearted Bodhisattva role models that our founders see in both the now famous Dr. Patch Adams (www.PatchAdams.org) and in our teacher, the venerable Ayurvedic Physician Dr. Vasant Lad, M.A.Sc. (www.ayurveda.com). In India in 1999, we saw firsthand how Dr. Lad offers his Ayurvedic consultations for a sliding scale donation and free to all indigent persons, peasants, teachers, preceptors, religious renunciates and elderly. Such 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 teach and practice Indo-Tibetan Ayurvedic healing as "joyful relentless service."

Soon after seeing the famous movie "Patch Adams" with Robin Williams, we met the humorous, joyfully exuberant and immensely generous Dr. Patch Adams in person in New Mexico at a World Peace Prayer Gathering. His Bodhisattva energy inspired us to make the vow to offer to the world affordable Ayurvedic health care and healing knowledge and the fruits of our continuing long-term studies with Dr. Lad in the U.S.A. and in India.

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To quote Patch in his book Gesundheit (p. 54):

"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."

(Click here to listen to an amazing 2 hour long lecture by Patch at UCSF from April 2002 - 19MB .WMA file).

Affordable one to four year clinical case-oriented educational program of courses for health professionals. Go beyond the basics; learn Ayurvedic herbal, dietary, bodywork and health maintenance strategies to solve clinical problems.

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The First Practice of the Bodhisattva Path:
Generosity (Dana Paramita) - Benefiting Others

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 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.

What is an appropriate amount of dana paramita? We do not charge 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 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.

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Tuition per Trimester Unit and per Hour for each Program Learning Format

Program Format Suggested Donation Rate

In-Person Classroom-based Instructor-Led Learning

$150 per trimester unit Trimester Unit ($10.00 per hour)

Distance Learning (Correspondence Course)

$10 per unit Trimester Unit (66 cents per hour)

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See the Bodhisattva Way - click here to listen to a lecture on "Path of the Bodhisattva".

See the Buddhist - Yogic Precepts - click here to listen to a lecture on "Ten Good Deeds of the Bodhisattva".

See the Code of Ethics for the School - click here to listen to a lecture on "Karma".

See the Code of Ethics for Ayurvedic Practitioners - click here to listen to a lecture on the concept of "Outflows".

See the Buddhist Ayurvedic Five Precepts Sacrament - click here to listen to a lecture on "Path of Following Precepts".

See the Seven Guidelines for Recognizing True Teachers - click here to listen to a lecture on "What is a Bodhisattva?"

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The Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute of the Medicine Buddha Healing Center offers the following four comprehensive Ayurvedic Diploma Certificate Programs:

Mastery Level	Diploma Certificate Program	Program Hours	Trimester Unit Credits	Tuition Donation
Level I	Clinical Ayurveda Therapist (C.A.T.) Distance Learning Diploma Includes 10 CD-ROMs and Michael Dick's 5th Edition of the Ayurvedic Herbology Handbook	225 audio/video class hours	15 units	$3350 Donation for Distance Learning
Level I	Clinical Ayurveda Therapist (C.A.T.) In-Person Classroom-based Diploma Includes unlimited weekly clinical apprenticeship with Losang Jinpa, D.Ayur, M.S. Buddhist Ayurveda and all weekly classes and monthly seminars in Berkeley, California. Also includes 10 CD-ROMs for use as homework study and printed version of Michael Dick's 5th Edition of the Ayurvedic Herbology Handbook	225 in-person classroom hours	15 units	$4100 Donation for Berkeley Classes
Level II	Clinical Ayurvedic Herbalist (C.A.H.) Distance Learning Diploma	750 audio/video class hours	50 units	$8990 Donation for Distance Learning
Level II	Clinical Ayurvedic Herbalist (C.A.H.) In-Person Classroom-based Diploma	750 in-person classroom hours	50 units	$11108 Donation for Berkeley Classes
Level III	Clinical Ayurvedic Herbalist Specialist (C.A.H.S.) Diploma and Associate of Applied Ayurvedic Science Degree (A.A.A.S.)	1,200 audio/video class hours	80 units	$12962 Donation for Distance Learning
Level IV	Master Ayurvedic Herbalist (M.A.H.) Diploma and Bachelor of Buddhist Ayurveda: B.S. Buddhist Ayurveda Degree. "Buddhist Healing Ayurveda"	1,800 audio/video class hours	120 units	$16482 Donation for Distance Learning

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Full Course Details for All Four Ayurvedic Certificate Programs (click here to download detailed Excel spreadsheet)

2006-2007 Class Schedule in Excel format (click here for full schedule)

Free Downloadable Sample Audio Lectures from the Actual Course Material - Over 20 hours of free sample material.

Required Books and Audio or Video Tapes for Clinical Ayurveda Therapist Program

Approximate Costs for Required Books for the Clinical Ayurveda Therapist Program

Program Costs and Online Registration for the Clinical Ayurveda Therapist Program - Only $60 per trimester unit, 66 cents per hour!

Remember, no student is EVER turned away due to lack of funds. So, if you cannot afford the initial $3350, please sign up for the course by making the donation that is within your budget. ($108 is the minimum suggested donation unless you have been indigent for some time.)

NOTE: The suggested Tuition Donation above includes a combination of refundable Tuition donation (based on the per trimester unit rate) and the non-refundable $108 application and registration fee donation ($54 each respectively). For more details on our refund policies, click here. For more info on our Application - Registration Fees and Exam Fees, click here.

For our In-Person Class Tuition details and information on the cost per trimester unit (per 15 hours of learning), click here.

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Om Namo Amitabha Vipashina Ratnasambhava Amoghasiddhi Buddha! Om Namo Bhaisajya Guru Buddha! Om Namo Avalokiteshvara Great Compassion Bodhisattva! Om Namo Ganesha! Om Jai Hanuman! We bow to and offer sincere thanks and dedication to our teachers, the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua, the Venerable Ayurvedic Sage Doctor Vasant Lad, B.A.M.S. and the Clown Bodhisattva Patch Adams, M.D. and the great Nobel Peace Prize-winning doctor Albert Schweitzer.

Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute
of the
Medicine Buddha Healing Center

2210 McKinley Avenue, Unit 4 (1 block west of Martin Luther King, between Allston and Bancroft) Berkeley, California 94703 TDC USA

(1) 510-292-6696

www.Ayurveda-California.com Please CALL US, no e-mail available.

Click here for a map to the Center

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to the public domain (without copyright)
in service to all living beings by the Medicine Buddha Healing Center who Dedicates the Merit to the Dharma Realm.
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Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute is a non-profit 501(c)3 educational project of
the Medicine Buddha Wholistic Ministry and its Center and Temple

We are a Buddhist Ayurveda church school,
as proven by our duly and ceremonially notarized founding Articles of Association and Organization
and are hence not under any government jurisdiction whatsoever.

"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 and Organization and in our Pastoral Counselor’s Declaration of First Amendment Constitutional Rights (Section C2.14) and Pastoral Counselor’s Declaration of First, Fourth, Sixth and Ninth Amendment Constitutional Rights (Section C2.15), that they may be in violation of the Pastoral Counselor’s civil and constitutional rights, Title 42, U.S.C. 1983 et seq. and Title 18, Section 241. We hereby declare, all rights reserved without prejudice."

Last updated: March 16, 2008