Tibetan Buddhist Meditation and the Modern World

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!

I have learnt a great deal from every aspect of this course, and am greatly looking forward to future courses, as you have promised!.

I am looking forward to seing you again for the 'Greater Vehicle'.

great material and very interesting and wonderful research material I was looking forward to starting this course, but so far, checking through the delivery of the first 4 weeks, I can't see spending time voluntarily following this.

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.

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.

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.

#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'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.

Nevertheless, even this had me wowed at times.

They were so bad that, at times, what was written was exactly the contrary to what was being said.

To be fair, the content is golden, although the papers seems to be geared to the academic community, rather than the student community.

I would recommend putting the transcripts of the lectures together in a more easily readable format, then use the videos by Dr. Germano to highlight the issues presented rather than just reading.