Introduction to the Study of Religion course no. 6121
Taught By Professor Charles B. Jones, Ph.D., University of Virginia, The Catholic University of America.

World Religions for Healthcare Professionals provides healthcare professionals with a basic knowledge of health beliefs and practices in world religions such as American Indian Religions, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism, and Taoism as well as selected new religious movements. It explores how various religious traditions view sickness, health, birth, and death. Its primary aim is to offer healthcare professionals a greater awareness of beliefs and practices so that they will be better informed in providing effective care to patients from various religious backgrounds. Many deeply controversial bioethics issues such as abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, and stem cell research are also addressed in this volume from the perspectives of world religions.

In order to come to your senses, Alan Watts often said, you sometimes need to go ?out of your mind.? Perhaps more than any other teacher in the West, this celebrated author, former Anglican priest, and self-described ?spiritual entertainer? was responsible for igniting the passion of countless wisdom seekers to the spiritual and philosophical delights of Asia and India. Now, with Out of Your Mind: Essential Listening from the Alan Watts Audio Archives, you are invited to immerse yourself in twelve of this legendary thinker?s pinnacle teaching sessions on how to break through the limits of the rational mind?and begin expanding your awareness and appreciation for ?the Great Game? unfolding all around us.

ANDREY LAPPA TANTRIC MEDITATION ONLINE COURSE
Tantric Meditation Practices is a four part lecture series that introduces the purpose and methods of the Tantric Yoga traditions of the Himalayas, including both the Hindu and Tibetan Buddhist lineages.

Taught By Professor Malcolm David Eckel, Ph.D., Harvard University, Boston University
A religion without God* How could that be?
And how could it have captured and captivated so many millions of people in so many countries for so many centuries?

Buddha in Suburbia tracks the extraordinary journey of 40 year old Lelung Rinpoche, one of Tibetan Buddhism's three principal reincarnations, as he sets out to gather the lost teachings of his faith and to attempt a return to his homeland.

Andy Rotman - Thus Have I Seen_Visualizing Faith in Early Indian Buddhism
Ann Heirman and Stephan Peter Bumbacher (ed.) - The Spread of Buddhism
Bronkhorst, Johannes - The Two Sources of Indian Asceticism
Bronkhorst, Johannes - The Two Traditions of Meditation in Ancient India
Cole, Alan - Text as Father_Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature
Conze, Edward - Buddhist Thought in India

When it comes to meditation, Pema Chödrön is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost instructors. Yet most of her books and teaching programmes have focused on the benefits and challenges of a well-established practice . . . until now. On How to Meditate with Pema Chödrön, the American-born Tibetan Buddhist nun and author of When Things Fall Apart (Shambhala, 2000) presents her first complete audio course for those new to meditation.