Ayurvedic Correspondence Course, Ayurvedic Distance Learning and In-Person Classroom-based Ayurvedic Education: Om Namo Medicine Master Buddha! Sangye Menla! - the Patron Buddha of our Indian Medicine - Tibetan Herbal Medicine Herbal Correspondence Course and Ayur-Veda School. In the Tibetan Medicine Tantras (Four Tantras or rGyud bzhi), Shakyamuni Buddha describes Medicine Master Buddha as an Supremely Enlightened Being who has special powers of healing. The special healing blessings of Medicine Buddha may be obtained by reciting his name or mantra. In Tibetan chant "Om Namo Baghawate Bhaghandze Guru Bhadurya Prabah Raja Tathagataya Arhate Samkya Sam Buddhaya Tayatha Om Bheghandze Bheghandze Maha Bheghandze Raja Samudgate Soha". In Sanskrit chanting "Aum Namo Bhagavaté Bhaisajya Guru Vaidurya Prabaha Rajaya Tathagataya Arhaté Samyaksambodhi Tadyata Aum Bhaisajé Bhaisajé Bhaisajya Samudgaté Svaha". For centuries, Buddhists have been reciting this mantra prayer, to bring an ultimate healing of spiritual disease, as well as cures for everyday problems of the body and mind. This graphic is either reprinted with permission or is made available under the "fair use" provision (17 USC §107) of the U.S. Copyright Act for research and non-profit educational and religious purposes only. Picture source: www.tibetmedicine.org -- The Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute has no relationship whatsoever with the California College of Ayurveda - www.ayurvedacollege.com. Do not confuse our Clinical Ayurveda Therapist (C.A.T.) Program or Clinical Ayurvedic Herbalist Specialist (C.A.H.S.) Program with Marc Halpern's CCA Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist (C.A.S.) Program.Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute
of the Medicine Buddha Healing Center

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

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            Sri - means Revered or Auspicious or Beautiful - May these qualities manifest in your life. Om Syi Dan Dwo Bwo Da La. Man Dwo La Ba Two Ye Swo Po He.

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

Ayurvedic Herbal Education Guidelines

The Ayurvedic Herbal Correspondence Course and Ayurveda Distance Leanring Programs of the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute accords with the Educational and Ethical Guidelines of the American Herbalists Guild allowing graduates of our certificate programs to apply to the AHG for Master Herbalist (M.H.) Certification. This graphic is either reprinted with permission or is made available under the "fair use" provision (17 USC §107) of the U.S. Copyright Act for research and non-profit educational and religious purposes only. Picture source: http://www.AmericanHerbalistsGuild.comLanguage below is adapted from the Herbalists Education Guidelines adopted by American Herbalist Guild (AHG) as updated on their webpage on September 8, 2000 (http://www.americanherbalistsguild.com/edguide.htm).  NOTE: The American Herbalist Guild (AHG) has no direct relationship with the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute. 

 

Introduction to the Education Guidelines

One of the most common questions that both the American Herbalist Guild (AHG) and the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute office receives are "How do I train to be an herbalist?" and "How do I recognize a well-trained and competent herbalist?". In response to these questions, as well in response to the growing popularity of herbal medicine and the need to maintain and promote the vocation of herbalism in the United States of American, the American Herbalist Guild has established a core curriculum to serve as a common guideline applicable to herbal education and training programs throughout the U.S.   The Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute fully supports and subscribes to these guidelines of the Guild.  

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Our Level IV Master Ayurvedic Herbalist Program corresponds completely with the American Herbalists Guild's educational guidelines.   For complete course-by-course details correlating our distance learning and in-person courses with the educational guidelines of the Guild, click here to download a detailed Excel spreadsheet.  The spreadsheet also provides course prices, descriptions, course codes, units and hours, prerequisites, and textbook book requirements.

Mastery Level Diploma Certificate Program Program Hours Trimester Unit Credits Tuition Donation
Level IV Master Ayurvedic Herbalist (M.A.H.) Diploma 1,800
class hours		 120 trimester units $6193
 

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The aim of both the American Herbalist Guild (AHG) and the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute is to honor, preserve, and encourage the many diverse traditions of herbal medicine, with our Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute focusing primarily on the ancient wisdom of the Indo-Tibetan Ayurvedic tradition.  Both the American Herbalist Guild (AHG) and the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute are also concerned with the competency of its professional members. The intent of the core curriculum is to foster excellence in herbal medicine and in the training of herbal practitioners. Neither the American Herbalist Guild (AHG), nor the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute intends these standards to be used to advance or impose any degree of licensure or regulation of the practice of herbal medicine or of Ayurveda. The core curriculum is a work-in-progress, therefore subject to revision. It is not intended as a definitive statement but rather a suggestion of minimal competencies that should be achieved by students wishing to become professional practitioners of herbal medicine. The American Herbalist Guild encourages educational institutions and organizations such as ours to go beyond the minimum content guidelines of the Guild specified here.

Although initially the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute is basing the detailed delivery of our academic programs and courses on these American Herbalist Guild (AHG) guidelines, we plan to go beyond these excellent initial standards within the next seven years to offer a full Masters degree program in Ayurvedic Medicine (MSTAM - Masters of Traditional Ayurvedic Medicine). Such a Masters program will be comparable in scope and depth to the MSTCM (Masters of Traditional Chinese Medicine) programs offered in the West since the 1980's by colleges of Traditional Oriental Medicine.

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It is the vision of the founders of the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute to offer California's most complete program of Ayurvedic study and the Planet's most complete Ayurvedic Distance Learning Program (Multi-media Ayurvedic Correspondence Course). Our future planned Masters Degree program will be comparable in subject matter to that taught in India's modern-day Ayurvedic colleges (currently referred to in India as B.A.M.S. degree). There is a rapidly growing attraction to Ayurveda in the West; the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute will meet head-on that challenge by anticipating this emergent demand and developing our educational program offerings in ways that rest within the financial resources of the non-profit Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute, yet serve the needs of new students and move the Institute towards the eventual goal of a Masters Degree Program (MSTAM).

Both the American Herbalist Guild (AHG) and the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute recognize that there are many valid models for study, ranging from individual apprenticeship to attendance at formal academic and clinical training programs. Both the American Herbalist Guild (AHG) and the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute also recognize that there are many aspects of herbal medicine that contribute to a well-rounded education and practice with a deep understanding of both scientific and traditional wisdom. The core curriculum represents a synthesis of the shared elements of herbal practice by diverse members of the American Herbalist Guild (AHG) and its education committee, including council members, professional members, and general members.

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The American Herbalist Guild (AHG) acknowledges that each school will have its own unique identity, with special emphases in coursework, including specific herbal traditions. The American Herbalist Guild (AHG) encourages educational institutions and organizations such as our to develop our courses and programs within the Guild's core curriculum framework, and to justify our approach against the Guild's requirements.  In full support of the American Herbalist Guild (AHG) and their in-depth educational guidelines, the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute has based our full three year program on these principles.

The core curriculum necessarily takes into consideration the growing need for modern herbalists to be knowledgeable of scientific gains in the field of herbal medicine, the medical considerations of herbal clients, and the increasing potential for working collaboratively with other health care professionals.

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The American Herbalist Guild (AHG) expects that a basic level of competency in the areas described by the core curriculum will be possessed by applicants for professional membership in the Guild. Admission as a professional member of the American Herbalist Guild (AHG) additionally requires that the applicant's training be deemed acceptable by the Guild's admissions review board.

The current status of herbal education in the United States of America means that opportunities for study vary and may for some be limited. The American Herbalist Guild (AHG) Education Guidelines provide some direction for herbal students and schools. The Guild also recognizes the difficulty for students in finding clinical apprenticeships, internships, or preceptorship situations for the clinical hours requirements. Therefore the Guild will make every effort to assist students in identifying mentors, and has developed a formal mentorship program for this purpose.  The Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute has already instituted a formal clinical preceptorship / apprenticeship program that follows the Guild's Mentorship Guidelines (http://www.AmericanHerbalistsGuild.com/mentors.htm).

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Source: http://www.americanherbalistsguild.com/edguide.htm

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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
$1250 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
$1,950 Donation for Berkeley Classes
 
Level II Clinical Ayurvedic Herbalist (C.A.H.)
Distance Learning Diploma		 750
audio/video class hours		 50 units
$950 Donation for
Distance Learning
 
Level II Clinical Ayurvedic Herbalist (C.A.H.)
In-Person Classroom-based Diploma		 750
in-person classroom hours		 50 units
$5,500
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
$1,300
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
$1,900
 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 $1250, 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 & Bancroft) Berkeley, California 94703 TDC   USA
 
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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: January 29, 2008