Tibetan Buddhist Meditation and the Modern World

Hope they launch part 2 and 3 of this course soon, looking forward to it.

Sorry for my English.So many people looking forward to take this course and was very cold, robotic... full of theoretical and repetitive texts.

I am confess that, as much as I was looking forward to guest lecturers, I couldn't make it past the first three.

Well done to the team who put it together and I am looking forwards to part 2, 3 and 4. it was a great experience that i get this course.regards for every one.

Looking forward to section two.

This is a course I will be coming back to again and again to refresh my own understanding, and I am truly looking forward to further modules when they are released.

Looking forward to the next courses.

I am really looking forward to the next course!

Largo pero fascinante If you want to get in *depth with the philosophy and history of Tibetan Buddhist meditation, this is the course for you!

Excellent guided meditations and a very well organized and well presented overview of the Lesser Vehicle of Tibetan Buddhist Meditation.

extremely boring teachers This is a very well done course on the basics of Tibetan Buddhist meditation, as well as a fantastic intro into the research being done to understand how meditation effects us physically, mentally, and emotionally.

This is a very worthy attempt to integrate the history, philosophical underpinnings and modern transformations of Tibetan Buddhist meditation.Clifford Saron’s Week 2 lectures on neuroscience and neuroplasticity were fascinating and intriguing introductions to the topic - very engaging.The negative.

----------- From the blog ----------------------------------I recently took the FREE Coursera course, "Tibetan Buddhist Meditation and the Modern World".

(https://www.coursera.org/learn/buddhist-meditation) From the course catalog: " Tibetan Buddhist Meditation and the Modern World explores the immense variety of meditation practices past and present.

The few text headers which appeared then disappeared in only a very few seconds and sometimes did not relate directly to what he was saying at that time.Dr Germano's content: the amended title was Tibetan Buddhist Meditation.

Beware !The course has introduced me to a new world and I will definitely pursue my new-born interest in Tibetan Buddhist Meditation.

Special thank you to Dr. David Germano for super organised and put together lectures, and Dr. Clifford Saron, just listening to the later speak is a great deal of meditation - so special and highly connecting.

Dr Clifford Saron took difficult scientific data and made it understanable.

#3 - The Science of Mindfulness against the Background of the Scientific Study of Meditation videos with Dr. Clifford Saron, neuroscientist.

Dr. Clifford Saron was my favorite part of the course by far; his methods of articulating his teachings, for me, were the easiest to understand and the most engaging/interesting to follow.

His interviews were well-conducted and his remarks always to the point.Interesting - and again complex material from Clifford Saron who managed to caputre the attention of my rather non-scientific brain.

Dr. Clifford Saron's lectures were interesting.

Would take this course again and highly recommend it to anyone interested in the tenets of Tibetan Buddhism.

I highly recommend this course to anyone interested in the subject.

I highly recommend the course to anyone interested in either learning about Buddhism, or meditation.

I highly recommend this course and the University of Virginia to anyone interested in developing knowledge of Buddhist meditation practices.

A wealth of information - a true resource for anyone interested in the subject matter.

Very good a bit too academic by times but otherwise a goldmine for anyone interested in the science and context of buddhist meditation I waited a long time for this class to start but now that it is here I find it impossible summon enough will to pay attention to the lectures.

The layout of the course was particularly good; with a theme each week and a set of lectures exploring the practice in question from a cultural and spiritual viewpoint, a set touching on the scientific aspect of the practice, a set outlining the history of the practice, and a series of guided meditations.

Labs provide an additional resource with guided meditations and explanations.

Also, I found the guided meditations very helpful and interviews quite interesting.

#2 - Guided Meditations by Dr. Anne Klein and Anam Thubten.

If the quality of guided meditations (GM) in following classes are even half the quality of this course's GM's, then that's all the reason I need to continue the future classes, too.

Similarly, many of the non-Buddhist guided meditations that I viewed in this course felt like a physical education or "How To" class.

I was at first pretty overwhelmed my the sheer volume of lectures on here but when you get into the swing of it it becomes apparent quite early on that the large amount of academic conceptualizations are not the most necessary to become totally au fait with & that these are in fact followed up by a spectrum of other articles which are more philosophical, contextual and relatively up beat, as well as some experiential guided meditations etc.What's become more apparent though is the fantastic faculty behind this & the incredible work being done by them as well as other colleagues in the field.

The guided meditations were wonderful, but the introductory lectures for Weeks 1-5 were redundant and boring.

It is also an excellent presentation of lesser vehicle practices.

(Note: In the class overview, it is noted that the term "Lesser Vehicle" is "perjorative" but they use it anyway.

")There are many FREE reasons to take this FREE "Lesser Vehicle" course (the first of four): #1 - An awesome, wonderful hour-long interview with Sharon Salzberg, one of the founders of the Insight Meditation Society.

It's not as if there aren't plenty of academics and practitioners who are active in this field.-it's confusing to describe Tibetan Lesser Vehicle practices but then illustrate them with Pali text sources, modern Mindfulness practice, and modern Brahma Vihara practice all of which have emerged from the modern Theravadin tradition.

Excellent course on the Lesser Vehicle.