Graduate Diploma of Buddhist Studies

This course is designed to provide participants with the ability to implement skills required to research, evaluate, review and understand the complex concepts of the Buddhist texts as they apply to contemporary society.

It will provide participants with a range of knowledge and skills to implement analytical skills to interpret the message of Buddhist texts from what is known as the Infinite Life Sutra, the Amitabha Sutra, The ‘Chapter on the Vows and Practices of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva’ from the Flower Adornment Sutra, the Diamond Sutra, Cultivating the Profound Essence of the Flower Adornment Sutra through the Insight of Ending Delusions and Returning to the Origin, Precepts for Novice Monks and apply them to contemporary society. Participants will also be able to design and develop lectures on sutras.