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!"

Dedication and Transfer of Merit

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The Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute® and its parent the Medicine Buddha Healing Center® would like to acknowledge and offer its sincere appreciation to the Medicine Master Buddha (Bhaisajya Guru Vaidurya Prabaha Buddha in Sanskrit [also called Senjya Menla in Tibetan and Yao Shi Fohw is Chinese]), to the Bodhisattvas, and to the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua, the founding Abbot of the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas (www.DRBA.org) and the Dharma Master of Buddhist Sutras (scriptures), Mantras (chants and prayers), Meditation, and Precepts. His pure devotion to the Buddha, the Buddha’s Teachings (Dharma), prayers and the practitioners of Buddhism (Sangha) and his tireless effort to translate into English, Spanish and other languages the truths found in the ancient Buddhist Sutras without compromising its spiritual messages remain as a constant inspiration for the faculty and founders of this Institute. As such, we honor the Venerable Master Hua’s memory, by this dedication.

We also wish to acknowledge the all of those whose dedication and insight brought the knowledge of Ayurveda to the Planet, especially to our teachers including the renowned spiritual Sage Ayurvedic Physician and Sanskrit Pandit Dr. Vasant Lad, B.A.M.S., M.A.Sc. (founder of the Ayurvedic Institute – www.Ayurveda.com) and others who lovingly showed the way and shared their knowledge and experience, and to all the friends and staff at the Ayurvedic Institute without whose contributions the Medicine Buddha Healing Center and the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute would not exist.

Om Namo Amitabha 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. of the Gesundheit Institute and the great Nobel Peace Prize-winning doctor Albert Schweitzer.

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Berkeley Buddhist Monastery Verse of Transference and Dedication of Merit and Blessings

(Click here to listen to the audio of this chant sung by the Rev. Heng Sure of the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery)

May the merit and virtue accrued from this work,
Adorn the Buddhas’ Pure Lands,
Repaying the four kinds of kindness above
And aiding the those suffering in the paths below.
May those who see and hear of this,
All bring forth the resolve for Bodhi,
And when this retribution body is over,
Be born together in the Land of Ultimate Bliss.

May every living being, our minds as one and radiant with light,
share the fruits of peace, with heart of goodness, luminous and bright.
If people hear and see, how hands and hearts can find in giving unity,
may their minds awake, to Great Compassion, wisdom and to joy.
May kindness find reward; may all who sorrow leave their grief and pain;
may this boundless light break the darkness of their endless night.
Because our hearts are one, this world of pain turns into Paradise;
may all become compassionate and wise; may all become compassionate and wise.

 

(Click here to listen to the audio of the traditional Chinese Mandarin Transference of Merit of the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas)

 

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Traditional Tibetan Medicine Verse of Transference and Dedication of Merit and Blessings

By this merit, may all attain Enlightenment.
May the enemy of wrong doing be defeated,
From the stormy waves of old age, sickness and death.
May all beings be liberated.


At this very moment, for the peoples and nations of the Earth
May not even the names disease, famine, war, and suffering be heard;
But rather may their moral conduct, merit, wealth, and prosperity increase
And may supreme good fortune and well being always arise for them.


Just as the hero Manjushri Great Wisdom Bodhisattva gained Enlightenment
And Samantrabhadra Perfection of Conduct Bodhisattva exactly the same,
I dedicate this merit entirely (to the welfare of all)
So that I may train myself to follow Them.


Precious best mind Bodhicitta,
May it be born in those in whom it is not;
May it be born in those whom it has arisen;
May it grow and grow, on and on.


May all of us who share a connection with the Medicine Buddha and Dhanvantari
Be inspired by illumination.
May the blessings of health and ease
Shower like fragrant blossoms from the Medicine Paradise.
May the Dharma increase.
May all beings be happy and realize the Great Perfection.
 

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Audio Lectures Explaining More Deeply the Roots of the Concept of Transference of Merit and Virtue

For a greater explanation of the the Spiritual Practice of Transferring the Merit and Virtue of our Conduct and Practices, 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
$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

All our materials on this site are offered free-of-charge
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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All Rights Reserved without Prejudice

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