28 courses with the subject RELB, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
RELB 1010Elementary Buddhist Tibetan I3
Effective Date 01/01/2026 Classical Tibetan language has been an essential language of Buddhist teachings for 1500 years and is still an active part of Buddhist and Tibetan life across Asia–a Latin of the Buddhist world. This course is an introduction to Classical Tibetan, a gateway to the vast worlds of Tibetan and Indian Buddhism. In the first year the focus is on the writing system, the vocabulary, and the grammar of Classical Tibetan. No prior experience is necessary. Requisites Students cannot enroll if they have previously completed RELB 1559 Topic #4 Elem. Buddhist Tibetan I
Effective Date 01/01/2026 Classical Tibetan language has been an essential language of Buddhist teachings for 1500 years and is still an active part of Buddhist and Tibetan life across Asia–a Latin of the Buddhist world. This course is an introduction to Classical Tibetan, a gateway to the vast worlds of Tibetan and Indian Buddhism. In the first year the focus is on the writing system, the vocabulary, and the grammar of Classical Tibetan. No prior experience is necessary.
Effective Date 01/01/2026 Classical Tibetan language has been an essential language of Buddhist teachings for 1500 years and is still an active part of Buddhist and Tibetan life across Asia–a Latin of the Buddhist world. This course is an introduction to Classical Tibetan, a gateway to the vast worlds of Tibetan and Indian Buddhism. In the second year you will use this knowledge to read Buddhist texts in Classical Tibetan. No prior experience is necessary.
Effective Date 01/01/2026 Classical Tibetan language has been an essential language of Buddhist teachings for 1500 years and is still an active part of Buddhist and Tibetan life across Asia–a Latin of the Buddhist world. This course is an introduction to Classical Tibetan, a gateway to the vast worlds of Tibetan and Indian Buddhism. In the second year you will use this knowledge to read Buddhist texts in Classical Tibetan. No prior experience is necessary.
Effective Date 06/13/2009 Provides a systematic introduction to Tibetan Buddhism with a strong emphasis on tantric traditions of Buddhism - philosophy, contemplation, ritual, monastic life, pilgrimage, deities & demons, ethics, society, history, and art. The course aims to understand how these various aspects of Tibetan religious life mutually shape each other to form the unique religious traditions that have pertained on the Tibetan plateau for over a thousand years.
RELB 2067Buddhism and Environmental Thought and Practice3
Effective Date 10/26/2022 An introduction to environmental ideas, texts and practices of Buddhism in broad historical and geographical context. Engages Buddhist “environmental imagination” through readings of primary texts, considers the ways that contemporary Buddhists around the world have interpreted environmental problems, and the ways that Buddhist modernist movements draw upon Buddhist ideologies in the service of social-environmental change.
Effective Date 05/01/2012 This course examines the ways in which Chinese Buddhism differs from the Buddhisms of other countries. The first half of the course introduces Buddhism with a focus on the historical development of the tradition.The second half of the course surveys several philosophical schools and forms of practice including Huayan, Chan, Pure Land, and Tantric Buddhism.
RELB 2165Buddhist Meditation and the Modern Secular World3
Effective Date 01/01/2021 This course focuses on meditation from three overlapping perspectives: traditional Buddhist practices, contemporary scientific research, and modern secular adaptations; students also learn secular meditative practices firsthand. Each day we will explore a major type of meditation that relates to a variety of topics and practices - attention, insight, compassion, aesthetics, somatic work, visualization, open awareness, and so forth.
Effective Date 10/22/2021 This is a lecture-based course–an idiosyncratic but hopefully helpful introduction to Buddhist philosophy. A few aspects of Buddhist philosophy, at any rate. The subject is potentially endless and can be grabbed from several different ends.
Effective Date 02/14/2012 This course is an introduction to Buddhism and an exploration of the place of Buddhism within contemporary Asian, European, and North American cultures through film. The goals are 1) to identify longstanding Buddhist narrative themes in contemporary films, 2) to consider how Buddhism is employed in films to address contemporary issues, and 3) to gain through film a vivid sense of Buddhism as a complex social and cultural phenomenon.
RELB 2280Religion and the Environment in East Asia3
Effective Date 08/01/2026 This course explores the close and dynamic relationship between religion and environmental thinking in East Asia: on the one hand, religions and religious institutions are situated within environmental contexts and, on the other, how people perceive their environments is shaped by religious practice and ethical ideas.
Effective Date 10/26/2021 This course serves as an introduction to the religious beliefs and practices of China, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora. The course covers several broad themes in Chinese religion, including ritual, self-cultivation, means of communicating with the gods, and the intersection of political authority and religion. We will engage with textual, material, and visual traditions. Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken RELG 2715 Intro to Chinese Religion
Effective Date 11/25/2024 This course surveys the history of Daoist literature, thought, and practice. We will consider how early Daoism emerged in the context of other religious practices, how it developed institutional forms, and how textual revelations led to new traditions. We will also examine how Daoism defined itself against Buddhism and the role Daoist ritual plays in the contemporary religious landscape of Taiwan and China
Effective Date 05/01/2020 The goal of this course will be to examine different conceptions of Buddhist meditation and how these different conceptions affect the nature of practice and the understanding of the ideal life within a variety of Buddhist traditions. Thus, the study of Buddhist meditation traditions reveals not just intricate forms of practice, but reveals the nature of the good life and how one lives it.
Effective Date 05/01/2026 This course explores the intersection of poetry and contemplation across different cultures in aesthetic experiences. The heart is Rilke’s The Duino Elegies with the films Wenders’s Wings of Desire and Faraway, So Close!, and Tarkovsky’s Solaris. We dialog these with contemplative poetry from Tibetan Buddhist sources and scientific work on aesthetics, such as Dacher Keltner’s Awe. We conjoin these with experimentation with basic contemplative practices.
Effective Date 01/01/2026 Classical Tibetan language has been an essential language of Buddhist teachings for 1500 years and is still an active part of Buddhist and Tibetan life across Asia–a Latin of the Buddhist world. This course is an introduction to Classical Tibetan, a gateway to the vast worlds of Tibetan and Indian Buddhism. In the second year you will use this knowledge to read Buddhist texts in Classical Tibetan. No prior experience is necessary.
Effective Date 01/01/2026 Classical Tibetan language has been an essential language of Buddhist teachings for 1500 years and is still an active part of Buddhist and Tibetan life across Asia–a Latin of the Buddhist world. This course is an introduction to Classical Tibetan, a gateway to the vast worlds of Tibetan and Indian Buddhism. In the second year you will use this knowledge to read Buddhist texts in Classical Tibetan. No prior experience is necessary.
Effective Date 01/01/2026 As systems and practices that occur in gendered spaces, this course seeks to understand how identity is constructed through Buddhist teachings that inflect and are inflected by changing cultural ideas about the body. By examining historical and contemporary global accounts, we will come to appreciate how men, women, and others in a diverse gender landscape exist within categories that can reify and complicate social ideas about conditioned existence.
Effective Date 10/10/2024 Common to all the world’s philosophies is engagement with the claim that all that exists in the universe is ultimately one, whether in one’s awareness or in actual fact. This course examines how Hindus and Buddhists have articulated this idea, basing the same in detailed analysis of one’s subjective awareness of reality, in an examination of the nature of existence independent of one’s experience of it, and on the basis of scriptural revelation.
Effective Date 09/27/2018 This course explores the origins and development of Buddhism in South Asia. It assumes students have no prior knowledge of Buddhism. The goal is to understand the complex of teachings, practices, and relationships that would become known later as Buddhism and, simultaneously, how such a complex has developed within specific cultural contexts.
Effective Date 08/01/2020 This course is a seminar that examines the development of Buddhism in America going from its earliest appearance to contemporary developments.
Effective Date 12/14/2023 This topical course provides upper level undergraduate students in Religious Studies an opportunity for advanced coursework in Buddhism
