The Buddhist Ayurveda College of California, USA - Ayurvedic Correspondence Course Academic Programs for USA, Europe and Canada

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).

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

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The Most Comprehensive and Low-Cost Distance Learning:
East Indian Ayurvedic Medicine and Tibetan Medicine Online Correspondence Courses

Himalayan Medicine
in the Buddhist - Yogic - Vedic
Tradition of India, Tibet & China

Want to study Ayurveda or Tibetan Healing Arts, but don't like to travel? Hate to sit in class? Can't afford to take time off from your work? If your answer is yes to any of these questions, Medicine Buddha Healing Center's Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute has the perfect solution for your needs. We have Distance Learning Programs on a wide variety of Himalayan Healing Arts topics.

Study what you want to learn, when you want to learn it, wherever you learn best.
Learn at your own pace using the latest multimedia audio-visual learning aids.
Study with exceptional instructors - Losang Jinpa, D.Ayur, past faculty member at the Ayurvedic Institute and Dr. Kelsang Dorjee of the H.H. Dalai Lama's Tibetan Medical and Astro. Institute in Dharamsala, India
Avoid the cost and hassle of travel and time away from your home.

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.) Diploma	225 hours	15 units	$3350
Level II	Clinical Ayurvedic Herbalist (C.A.H.) Diploma	750 hours	50 trimester units	$8990
Level III	Clinical Ayurvedic Herbalist Specialist (C.A.H.S.) Diploma	1,200 hours	80 trimester units	$12962
Level IV	Master Ayurvedic Herbalist (M.A.H.) Diploma	1,800 hours	120 trimester units	$16482

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Full Course Details for All Four Ayurvedic Certificate Programs (click here to download detailed Excel spreadsheet)

The Most Affordable yet Comprehensive Professional Ayurvedic Education in the U.S.A.

Inexpensive Community College Level Pricing

We have endeavored to offer the most affordable yet comprehensive Ayurvedic education in the United States and have hence based the pricing for our Distance Learning (Correspondence Course) programs on the low-cost "Community College" model. State-supported Community Colleges in the United States, such as San Francisco’s City College or Oakland’s Laney College typically charge $26 to $75 per trimester unit for distance learning. In this spirit we are offering our distance learning programs at the affordable suggested donation rate of $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 $458 up-front, then please sign up for the course by making the donation that is within your budget. Or alternatively, sign up for classes "à la carte" -- meaning you "pay-as-you-go". In order to keep the donations (artha and dana) flowing to support our non-profit Ayurvedic work, we encourage students to sign up for the entire $458 (225 hour) program all at once.

Total Tuition Cost for Clinical Ayurveda Therapist (C.A.T.) Diploma – 225 hours, 15 trimester units

Approximate Costs for Required Books for the Clinical Ayurveda Therapist (C.A.T.) Program

Required Books and Audio or Video Tapes for Clinical Ayurveda Therapist Program

Our core required textbook for all courses is:

Lad, Vasant, Dr., B.A.M.S., M.A.Sc., Textbook of Ayurveda – Fundamental Principles of Ayurveda, Volume One, Albuquerque, New Mexico: The Ayurvedic Press, 2002. ISBN 1-883725-07-0
Cost: $40.00 U.S.

Required for Ayurvedic, Nutrition, Sanskrit and English Courses HUM108, AYR108, AYR220, AYR230, AYR240, AYR241, AYR250, AYR260, NUT108, AYR190, SKT108, SKT210, SKT220, ENG108

Please support Dr. Lad's Ayurvedic Institute www.Ayurveda.com by purchasing directly from them.
Also available from Amazon.com

Sample Audio Lectures from the Actual Course Material

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

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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: March 16, 2008