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

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).
 

            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!"

Legality of Practicing Ayurveda in the United States of America:
First Amendment Religious Protection for Ordained Ministers of Buddhist Ayurveda

(Click here to listen to the audio of this page)

The Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute (and its parent the Medicine Buddha Healing Center) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) religious organization (ministry) dedicated to educating people according to time-honored wholistic principles which honor the body-mind-spirit of the individual and which empowers the person to the self awareness needed to make their own wise health decisions.  The Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute (and its parent the Medicine Buddha Healing Center) is dedicated to the training of Pastoral Counselors – Clinical Ayurvedic Therapists (C.A.T.), Clinical Ayurvedic Herbalists (C.A.H.), Clinical Ayurvedic Herbalist Specialists (C.A.H.S.), and Master Ayurvedic Herbalists (M.A.H.).  Individuals who complete the required programs and who demonstrate dedication to the principles of wholistic healing established by the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute will be ordained as Pastoral Counselors and receive the legal benefits to practice Ayurveda as Life-style Counselors under the full protection of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution[1].  This allows Pastoral Counselors ordained by the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute (and hence by its parent the Medicine Buddha Healing Center) to legally provide any gentle means of healing (“the practice of religious tenets of a church[2] in the ministration to the sick or suffering by mental or spiritual means as provided by the law”[3])

 

The Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute (and its parent the Medicine Buddha Healing Center) is not affiliated with any organized religion nor does it intend to impose its spiritual principles.  It is the intention of the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute (and its parent the Medicine Buddha Healing Center) to honor the spiritual beliefs of all who seek its service.

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[1] “The First Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances..”  Handbook 7.8.2 Exempt Organizations Technical Guidelines Handbook, Chap. 3, Religious, Charitable, Educational, Etc., Organizations, Tax Professional’s Corner of the Digital Daily of the Internal Revenue Service, Internet web site URL: http://www.irs.gov/prod/bus_info/tax_pro/irm-part/section/36070a.html, Section [7.8.2] 3.6.1 (02-23-1999) “Constitutional Considerations”: p. 37.

 

[2] The Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute ministry and its parent church the Medicine Buddha Healing Center.

 

[3] The New Mexico Medical Practice Act states (in section 61-6-17.J “Exceptions to act”) that, “The Medical Practice Act shall not apply to or affect: (J.) the practice of religious tenets of any church in the ministration to the sick or suffering by mental or spiritual means as provided by the law.”

 

The New Mexico Oriental Medicine Practice Act states that it shall not apply to or affect the following practices, provided that the individual does not hold himself out as a doctor of oriental medicine or as practicing acupuncture or oriental medicine exempting from the act, among other things: “(3) the counseling about or the teaching or demonstration of breath techniques; (4) the counseling or teaching about diet and nutrition; (5) the spiritual or lifestyle counseling of any individual or spiritual group, or the practice of religious tents of any church; or (6) the providing of information about the general usage of herbal medicines, homeopathic medicines, vitamins, minerals, enzymes or glandular or nutritional supplements.”  

 

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Notice of Requirement of Ordained Ministers (Pastoral Counselor Ayurvedic Practitioners) to Receive, Uphold, Protect and Embody the Medicine Buddha Healing Center Moral Conduct Guidelines

The Medicine Buddha Healing Center's Council of Pastoral Counselor's will not consider an application for Buddhist Pastoral Counselor Lay Ordination from a student who has been dismissed from any school for legal, ethical, or moral reasons or who does not vow to follow our Ordained Minister Conduct Guidelines below.

The Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute and Medicine Buddha Healing Center reserves the right to deny ordination to any applicant whom we believe is unable to meet the Ordained Minister Conduct Guidelines as described on the following four web pages:

1. "Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute Student Agreement"

2. "Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute Student Conduct"

3. "Medicine Buddha Healing Center Ayurvedic Herbalist Code of Ethics"

4. "Definition of a Clinical Ayurveda Therapist (C.A.T.) Practitioner"

Prospective Ordained Ministers should at least endeavor to follow either the Buddhist 5 Precepts, and/or the Yogic Yama-Niyama and/or Sri Charaka's Ayurvedic Moral Guidelines for Students, or the Ten Commandments of the Bible (a.k.a. Decalogue) unless these wisdom guidelines somehow conflict with their religious beliefs.

 

"No peace among the nations without peace among the religions. No peace among religions without dialogue between the religions. No dialogue between the religions without investigation of the foundation of the religions."

You, and I, and everyone else have two options:


1. Promote religious tolerance -- the right of people to hold religious beliefs that are strange to us, without hindrance, or oppression.

2. To continue living in a world saturated with religious intolerance. We will then experience more religiously-based wars, terrorism, and civil disturbances, as we have seen recently in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Cyprus, India, Kosovo, Israel, Macedonia, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sudan, etc. The ultimate cause of the 9-11 terrorist attacks was religious hatred and intolerance.


It's your decision to make. What kind of a world do you want for yourself and your children?
 

To this end, the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute and all of its Ordained Ministers (Pastoral Counselor Ayurvedic Practitioners) vow to receive, uphold, protect, and embody the Creed of the United Religions Initiative (www.URI.org):

"The purpose of the United Religions Initiative is to promote enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, to end religiously motivated violence and to create cultures of peace, justice and healing for the Earth and all living beings."

 

Audio Lectures Explaining More Deeply the Vows and Constitutionally Protected First Amendment Religious Beliefs of Buddhist - Yogic Ordained Ministers (Pastoral Counselor Ayurvedic Practitioners)

For a greater explanation of the vows and beliefs of our lay Ordained Ministers, click here for the directory to download and listen to numerous sample readings from Losang Jinpa, D.Ayur from Dr. Epstein's wonderful Buddhist Dictionary. 

The following sample audios require the Microsoft Windows Media Player. Our Ayurvedic Correspondence Courses use highly compressed audio and video seminars recorded using the WMA format and played with the Windows Media Player.

For a full listing of our sample audio seminars, visit our online
Medicine Master Buddha Library. 

 

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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
 
(1) 510-292-6696

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

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 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: January 29, 2008