Course Reading Material

Course book: The Awakening Mind by Geshe Tashi Tsering, published by Wisdom Publications.

Supplementary Reading:  For those of you who have more time to explore this topic, Geshe Tashi recommends reading other books on this subject.  We recommend a number of books below, many of which will be mentioned by Geshe la during the course of this module.

• Bodhichitta, Cultivating the Compassionate Mind of Enlightenment by Ven. Lobsang Gyatso
• Vast as the Heavens, Deep as the Sea by Khunnu Rinpoche
• Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life by Master Shantideva
• The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Lam Rim Chenmo) vol.2 by Lama Tsongkhapa
• Training the Mind in the Great Way by Gyalwa Gendun Drup (The First Dalai Lama)

Additional Reading to build on the Psychology module: Studying Buddhism in the 21st century comes with many technological advantages – just being on this course would be impossible twenty years ago. It does, however, bring its own disadvantages. The modern day assumptions and beliefs we bring to our study of Buddhism are not addressed by the masters we study, but they can easily hold us back.  To put these assumptions in perspective, we strongly recommend a book by biologist Rupert Sheldrake, a fellow of the Zoological Society and the Cambridge Philosophical Society.  His choice of title was Science Set Free, but it was published in the UK as The Science Delusion.

• The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (U.K) 2020 edition by Rupert Sheldrake, published by Coronet. (Introduction, Prologue, Chapter 1 Is Nature Mechanical? & Chapter 4 Is Matter Unconscious?)