The Daily Schedule

September 3, 2003
Wednesday

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon                    Introduction    

Preliminary questions and basic concepts; preconceptions, conceptions, first questions; "mental culture" and "religion"; cosmology; the problem with different assumptions concerning the nature of the "sentient being"

The problem of the "history of Buddhism" and of "Buddhist History"

5:00 p.m.                                           SoCo welcome and BBQ

7:30 p.m.                                           Film:     "The Little Buddha"

                                                                        (at Mark Mancall’s house)

September 4, 2003
Thursday

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon                    The Buddhist narrative.  The Three Jewels. "The Wheel of Life"

2:00 p.m.                                           Film:     "Tibetan Book of the Dead"

 

September 5, 2003
Friday

10:00  a.m. - 12:00 noon                   The Theravada Buddhist Tradition

2:00 p.m.                                           Introduction to Walking Meditation by Thai monk

                                                           (at Mark Mancall’s house)

September 7, 2003
Sunday

9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.                         Field Trip:  Visit to Thai Buddhist temple, Fremont

September 8, 2003

Monday

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon                     Buddhist aesthetics and the function of "art" in Buddhism; tankas,mandalas, and other instruments of mental culture

                                                            Film:  mandala

1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.                         Sophomore College Student Workshops:

7:00 p.m.                                             Sophomore College Faculty Night

 

September 9, 2003
Tuesday

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon                    The concept and practice of practice

1:00 p.m.                                           Field Trip:  Depart for City of 10,000 Buddhas

5:30 p.m. (approx.)                           Dinner at Vegetarian Restaurant at "The City"

 

September 10, 2003
Wednesday

3:30 a.m.                                            Wake Up!

4:00 a.m.                                            In the Buddha Hall

6:15 a.m.                                            Breakfast

7:00 a.m.                                            Sutra Recitation in the Buddha Hall

8:30 a.m.                                            Meeting with member(s) of the community

10:30 a.m.                                          Meal Offering, Buddha Hall

11:00 a.m.                                          Lunch

2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.                        Seminar meeting:  Monastic Culture and Traditions

5:15 p.m.                                           Dinner

6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.                        Evening Ceremony, Buddha Hall

7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.                        Dharma Lecture, Buddha Hall (optional)

 

September 11, 2003
Thursday

3:30 a.m.                                            Wake Up!

4:00 a.m.                                            In the Buddha Hall

6:15 a.m.                                            Breakfast

7:00 a.m.                                            Sutra Recitation in the Buddha Hall

8:30 a.m.                                            Meeting with members of the community

10:00 a.m.                                          Introduction to Vajrayana

11:30 a.m.                                          Leave City of 10,000 Buddhas

1:00 p.m.                                           Arrive Mill Valley, Lunch (time approximate)

3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.                        Visit Tibetan Center for Compassion and Wisdom; Introduction to Tibetan ritual

5:30 p.m.                                           Depart Mill Valley for Stanford

7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.                        SoCo Lecture

 

September 12, 2003
Friday

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon                    Demons and the Intellectual tradition

2:00 p.m.                                           Film:  "Tibetan Debate in the Tibetan Tradition"

 

September 14, 2003
Sunday

7:00 p.m.                                           SoCo Concert

 

September 15, 2003
Monday

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon                    Zen (with films)

2:00 p.m.                                           Medicine Buddha Meditation

 

September 16, 2003
Tuesday

10:00 a.m. -12:00 noon                      Divine Madness and Enlightenment

12:00 noon                                       Students begin to move into dorms

7:00 p.m.                                         Film:  Samsara(at Mark Mancall's)

September 17, 2003
Wednesday

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon                     Tibetan Buddhism:  The tradition of Practice

4:00 p.m.                                         Meeting with His Holiness the Sevententh Karmapa (at Buddhist Center, corner Sand Hill Road and Avenida de las Pulgas)

September 18, 2003
Thursday

Time to be announced                       Field-trip to Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, for those who want to go