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Ayurvedic Student Agreement - Follow the Student Guidelines

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All students must agree to endeavor to receive, uphold, protect and embody these time-honored Ayurvedic wisdom principles described on this page.

"A physician should be kind and compassionate to all patients, providing each with appropriate, specific treatment.

A physician should have extensive theoretical and practical knowledge and, having studied under a well-experienced physician, possess a complete understanding of the etiology, symptomatology, pathology, specific individual treatment and prevention of disease."

- Charaka Samhita, Sutrasthana, Chapter Nine

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"A wise person desiring to become a physician should first examine the system being taught, its authenticity, completeness and applicability.

Thereafter, one should examine the teacher. The teacher should possess a deep understanding of the theoretical and practical aspects of the science, have extensive experience in practice, be skillful, friendly, pure, compassionate, fatherly to students, and capable of infusing understanding.

Having decided, approached the teacher with respect and been accepted, a student should engage in study seriously; wake up early, finish morning routines and spiritual practices; pay respect to saints, sages, preceptors, elders, the teacher and all beings. The student should then make efforts to comprehend, clearly express, and discuss the knowledge by studying the information already acquired, entering deeply in contemplation in order to completely understand the meaning and the applications. In this way the student should continue the study without wasting time in midday, afternoon and evening."

- Charaka Samhita, Vimanasthanam, Chapter Eight

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"A completely dedicated student should conserve vital energies, speak the truth, refrain from envy and anger, observe non-violence and eat a vegetarian diet. The student should act without ego, jealousy, ambition or self-praise, never making an exhibition of knowledge and act with care, affection, and compassion.

The student's appearance should be clean and modest and speech should be pleasant, pure and truthful, never speaking ill or backbiting, using useful and measured words.

The student should not even think of committing adultery or covet another's property and should not smoke, , alcohol or any mind-altering substances except under the supervision of a physician.

The student's behavior should never directly or indirectly cause harm to the teacher, the school or others."

- Charaka Samhita, Vimanasthanam, Chapter Eight

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Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute Student Agreement

Since the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute has been inspired by the pioneering Ayurvedic work of our teacher Dr. Vasant Lad and his Ayurvedic Institute in New Mexico and India (www.Ayurveda.com), we mostly concur with their vision and goals of Ayurvedic education in the United States.  Hence we paraphrase them and base our Student Agreement on their guidelines):

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In keeping with these traditional Ayurvedic sutras, I understand the philosophy of the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute on the points below.  If I do not act in accordance with them, I understand that I may not be able to participate in some or all of the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute’s programs and / or the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute may not be able to support my activities.

1. The Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute is an non-profit 501(c)(3) religious organization.  We provide Ayurvedic healing arts education and limited training but cannot license anyone to practice health care.  Licensing is provided by the States.  Ayurveda is currently not licensed by any of the 50 States of the United States of America.  The diplomas (certificates of completion) awarded to eligible students of the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute’s Certificate Diploma Programs, only demonstrates successful completion of the study program.  They may also provide the basis for becoming ordained as a lay minister (Pastoral Counselor Ayurvedic Practitioner)
   
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2. Graduates should teach others only those subjects and principles that are fully understood and only when capable of maintaining the accuracy and purity of the ancient knowledge.  Graduates should offer only those Ayurvedic therapies that are fully understood and only when capable of maintaining the accuracy and purity of the ancient knowledge.
   
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3. There can be a fine line between teaching Ayurveda, being a Pastoral Counselor (Ordained Minister) and providing professional health care and students should be aware that there is much to learn about being a professional health care provider that the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute does not teach, even though we offer in our Level IV Program (1,800 hours, 108 trimester units long Master Ayurvedic Herbalist M.A.H.) one of the most complete programs in Ayurvedic Herbology in the United States based on and conforming to the Educational Guidelines of the American Herbalists Guild.

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4. Graduates from the Level I Program (225 hours, 15 units long Clinical Ayurvedic Therapist [C.A.T.] Diploma Certification) have a thorough understanding of the fundamentals of Ayurveda and can reasonably apply lifestyle principles to their own life, close family and friends in order to restore and maintain a healthy life.
   
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5. Graduates from the Level I Clinical Ayurvedic Therapist Certification Program who desire to provide individualized professional health care should be able to do so as long as they maintain a consultant relationship with their clients and educate them in the area of understanding their own constitution and making lifestyle choices for restoring and maintaining a healthy life.  The Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute recommends that management of specific diseases be referred to other more qualified professionals or to graduates of at least the Level II Program or ideally the level III and IV Programs.
   
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6. Graduates from the Level II Program (750 hours, 50 trimester units long Clinical Ayurvedic Herbalist [C.A.H.] Diploma Certification) possess a deeper understanding of the medical science of Ayurveda and will be able to begin integrating Ayurveda into another healthcare discipline.  The Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute recommends that graduates of Level II ought to either personally have formal training in another healthcare discipline or should team up with someone who does, as the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute does not at this time offer recognized medical programs in preparation for state licensure (since licensure does not yet exist for Ayurveda in the U.S.A.)

   
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7. The Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute recommends that graduates from the Level II Clinical Ayurvedic Herbalist Certification Program incorporate the knowledge of Ayurveda into any other health care discipline in which they are qualified or licensed to practice by the governmental body having the authority to license that practice at their physical location. The Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute further recommends that their health care practice be predominantly that in which they are licensed or most qualified.  We also recommend that if the health care discipline is not recognized and licensable by the governmental authority at the location of practice, the practitioner should possess whatever recognition is available in their discipline by the highest and most widely recognized authority in that health care discipline. 

   
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8. Graduates of the Level I or higher programs may be ordained by the Medicine Buddha Healing Center as Ayurvedic Pastoral Counselors (Ministers) practicing Ayurveda under First Amendment Religious protection of the United States Constitution as a their deeply held religious beliefs.

   
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9. The Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute recommends that graduates from all four levels of our Certification Programs advertise their professional healthcare services using their primary licensed discipline or the discipline in which they are most qualified as the predominant modality.  They may include Ayurveda as a supportive discipline along with other disciplines if any.

   
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10. The term Ayurvedic Physician, Ayurvedic Doctor, Tibetan Physician, Tibetan Doctor and Vaidya is reserved for those who have achieved the B.A.M.S. degree (Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery), BTMS (Bachelor of Tibetan Medicine and Surgery) or higher conferred on a graduate of a traditional five-year long Ayurvedic or Tibetan Medicine College in India, Tibet or China. 

    
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11. Graduates of our Level III Program (1,200 hours, 75 trimester units long Clinical Ayurvedic Herbalist Specialist [C.A.H.S.] Diploma Certification) or our Level IV Program (1,800 hours, 108 trimester units long Master Ayurvedic Herbalist [M.A.H.] Diploma Certification may reasonably refer to themselves as Ayurvedic Practitioners, however graduates of only Level I or Level II do not have sufficient training and clinical (ministerial) practice to reasonably call themselves Ayurvedic Practitioners.

    
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12. A student’s request to be admitted into Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute’s optional “Gurukula” India Study-Abroad Program in the countryside outside of Delhi is subject to the personal approval of Losang Jinpa, D.Ayur and Dr. Partap Chauhan, B.A.M.S.   There is no obligation on the part of Losang Jinpa or Dr. Chauhan or the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute to accept any person, nor automatic acceptance on the basis of any previous or current relationship with Dr. Chauhan or the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute.

    
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13. Students participating in any of the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute’s programs may have the opportunity to work with clients and/or teach through student teaching programs, if invited to do so.  Students agree to keep in strict confidence, with the exception of Losang Jinpa, D.Ayur, Dr. Bill Celentano, Dr. Chauhan and certain designated Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute staff, any information about any client that they are directed to work with.

    
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14. Outside of the teaching programs offered and supervised by the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute, students may not under any circumstances work with any clients of the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute within 60 days of said client receiving consultations or services at the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute, without prior written approval. This point is out of respect to the school and to its teachers.

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I have carefully read the above 14 paragraphs and, as a consideration to study or work at The Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute, understand the above statements.

Signed this ________ day of _________________ in the year _____________,

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        Ayurveda is beyond beginning and ending. A science of eternal healing, it is compared to a vast ocean, and studying Ayurveda to swimming across. A true teacher can teach one how to swim, but the swimming is up to the student…it is a lifelong journey.

“The object of Ayurveda, the science of life, is to protect the health of the healthy and to alleviate disorders in the diseased. Ayurveda has eight main branches: internal medicine, diseases of the head and neck, surgery, toxicology, psychology, pediatrics, and maintaining the longevity of life of every individual with specific rejuvenating and re-vitalizing therapies.”

- Charaka Samhita, Sutrasthana, chapter thirty

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

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