Ayurveda
Healing Arts Institute
of the Medicine Buddha Healing Center
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California's College
of Ayurveda Therapies
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Site updated:
December 12, 2008
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We offer both Ayurvedic Correspondence
Course (Herbal Distance Learning) and in-person Classroom-based
Ayurvedic college training in Berkeley, California, USA:
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National Standards,
Authorization,
Accreditation - We
meet or exceed all
National and California Ayurvedic educational standards and
guidelines and those of the
American Herbalists Guild. The
National Ayurvedic Medical Association
suggests 500 hours of training. The
California Association of Ayurvedic Medicine (C.A.A.M.) mandates a minimum
of 350 hours for
professional membership. The
American
Herbalist Guild
suggests 1,800 hours for
professional membership. We offer a total
of 1,800 hours (M.A.H.),
1,200 hours (C.A.H.S.),
and 750 hours (C.A.H.)
respectively for our three advanced level herbal practitioner certificate
diploma programs and is thus positioned to help our graduates to pursue
professional level membership in the above professional organizations.
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Ven. Losang Jinpa, D.Ayur, Co-Founder,
Ayurveda College
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What is Ayurveda? -
The Science of Self Healing -
Intro audio lecture
Ayurvedic Class Audios -
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from our seminars
Ayurvedic Ethics - (Buddhist,
Vedic, Yogic Precepts) -
School and
Practitioners
Articles of
Association and Organization
- Buddhist Church and
School
Requirements for
Correspondence Course
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Who We Are? As a non-profit 501(c)3 religious organization (a Buddhist Ayurvedic Ministry, Institute, Center and Temple) called the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute (Medicine Buddha Healing Center) founded on July 4, 2000 and teaching traditional spiritual Buddhist Ayurveda healing techniques from India, Tibet, Nepal and China. Our main aim is to preserve the rich and ancient physical-psycho-spiritual healing traditions of East Indian Buddhist-Vedic-Yogic Ayurvedic Medicine and Buddhist Tibetan Medicine and impart this time-tested wisdom to younger generations. We offer informal training classes and formal apprenticeship leading to certification and ceremonial lay ordination as a Buddhist Ayurveda Pastoral Counselor to practice Buddhist Ayurveda. Buddhist Ayurveda is the classical spiritual Ayurveda practiced in the time of Shakyamuni Buddha (550 B.C. to 1000 A.D.) as taught at Buddhist Ayurvedic Monasteries such as the 5th century B.C. Indian Nalanda University, the world's first university. Buddhist Ayurveda, the elder foundation for the younger Tibetan Medicine (700 A.D.), is based on the ancient sacred Sanskrit, Tibetan and Chinese classic Sutra scriptures and mantras of the Medicine Buddha, Avalokiteshvara Guan Yin Bodhisattva, Sushruta Nagarjuna Bodhisattva, Ganesha, Patanjali, Vagbhata and other great healer sages and healing Bodhisattvas of Ayurveda. We view the generous big-hearted Buddhist Ayurveda principles more recently manifesting in the modern day examples of contemporary sage Bodhisattva healers such as our inspiring teachers the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua, Dr. Vasant Lad, B.A.M.S., M.A.Sc., and Clown Bodhisattva Dr. Patch Adams, M.D. The Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute teaches Ayurveda that includes Buddhism... and a Buddhism that included Ayurveda. Ayurveda "hugs all aspects of life" and "Buddhism encompassed the entire Dharma Realm." In the traditional Ch'an (Zen) Buddhist metaphor, they are both "fingers pointing at the moon." For more on this, please see our Spiritual Mission, the school's Buddhist Ayurvedic Herbalist Ethical Precepts, and our definition of the spiritual missions of a Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist or Clinical Ayurveda Therapist or Pastoral Counselor or Buddhist Ayurveda Minister. Download MS Word Brochure on the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute (1 MB) Download MS Word Brochure on the the Medicine Buddha Healing Center (3 MB)
Our Class Locations: All regular Tuesday night Ayurvedic Psychology classes (7 to 9:30 PM) and one two-day weekend per month are held at the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery (2304 McKinley Avenue at Bancroft - 1 block west of Martin Luther King near Berkeley High School track and field) (click here for directions). Although unaffiliated with us, we thank the Monastery for their kindred spirit support of our classes. Other classes are
held at the:
The First Practice of the Bodhisattva
Path: As a Buddhist Dharma Center and Institute, we prefer to offer all of our Ayurveda classes and Ayurvedic healing services on a suggested donation basis (called dana paramita in Indian Sanskrit), rather than ask for a fixed sum. This is the first of the Six Practices of the Bodhisattva.
This means that our ministry (Medicine Buddha Healing Center) and its school (Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute) relies on donations for all expenses. So that dana paramita (the perfection of the practice of giving) may take root here in the West, we ask your reflection on this fundamental Buddhist-Yogic practice. From the time of the Buddha (550 B.C.), the practice of Dharma (teaching and healing) has traditionally happened within a field of generosity. We believe that Dharma practice unfolds best for everyone concerned when the teaching-healing and the support for the teaching-healing are given freely. We follow the generous Bodhisattva spirit and vows of Dr. Patch Adams, and Dr. Vasant Lad, who have inspired our both our format of giving and our teachings - healing practices. We agree with and emulate
Patch Adams'
Bodhisattva spirit of Dana Paramita when he said in his book
Gesundheit:
"Greed is one of society’s worst malignancies, and it appears to have
metastasized to every corner of the earth. The sense that greed is
incurable may well account for its escalation. Certainly one of greed’s
most devastating symptoms is cynicism. Unless
greed and its symptoms are
excised, society will perish. We believe that a society must care for its
population enough to take care of its needs. Treatment of disease and
provision for health care are fundamental to a society’s sound survival.
These needs should be fulfilled as a gift to its population, not as a
commodity to be bought and sold. In a
profit-oriented system devoted to
grabbing the most income the traffic will bear, the goal will be disease
care. In a service-oriented system devoted to keeping the population at its
healthiest, the goal will be
disease prevention.
The Gesundheit Institute
will never charge money for its medical services. If it is to survive, its
staff, patients, and friends will cooperate and donate everything needed for
it to flourish as a community hospital. We hope to
eliminate the factor
of debt entirely from the healing interaction. Although this leaves us
vulnerable to the wishes of the greater community, paradoxically, we believe
that vulnerability is our greatest strength. We believe it is
imperative to need the community we serve because the
community also needs
us. This is basic to interdependence, which we feel is necessary
for a healthy society. We must, as individuals and as a free society,
stop our worship of things and wealth and put our sense of
richness in
things everybody can have in abundance without excluding anyone. These
riches include faith,
fun, and the breathtaking bounty of nature and
friendship. This kind of medicine cannot be bought or sold. By not charging
patients… we are freer to
be silly and to
build friendships. We also believe
that not charging money is very good
malpractice insurance. We hope that our
patients will take the generosity with them when they leave and spread it in
their own communities. This is the heart of our
social revolution: to
take the most expensive service in America and
give it away for free." "Practical
Outrageousness - Bringing Humor and Joy into Your Clinical Practice"
Course at University of California San Francisco (UCSF).
Click on any of the above links to see many video clips that show Patch's philosophy on life which has been the model for the Ayurvedic Healing Arts Institute. What is an appropriate amount of dana paramita? We do not charge a fixed amount (but we do have some suggested guidelines) in order to allow each person to answer that question from her/his own heart and circumstances. Our practitioners view dana paramita in this way: "Dana paramita is a gift to ourselves because it is an opportunity to give freely. Giving and receiving are really part of the same whole." Several practical considerations may be of use and interest to actualize the practice of generosity at the Medicine Buddha Healing Center and the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute. Many of our main faculty teachers - practitioners, such as Losang Jinpa, are giving freely of their time, energy, commitment to the Dharma. Emulating monastics, our teachers - practitioners trust that their livelihood needs will be met through donations. Some donations we receive help support other groups (such the Dharma Realm Buddhist Association / Berkeley Buddhist Monastery). It is our hope that those who receive the teaching - healing services of our Center and Institute will share with us a heartfelt commitment to the deep practice of generosity. "Bringing fun, friendship, spirituality and "The healer who regards kindness to humanity as his supreme religion and treats his patients accordingly, succeeds best in achieving his aims of life and obtains the greatest pleasure." -- from Charaka, honored 2nd century B.C. Ayurvedic Physician Giving is a form of the Bodhisattva Vow to save living beings from suffering. The 34 Buddhist Lay Bodhisattva Path Precept Vows requires of us to: "Compassionately help those suffering from ill health." Hence, we study, practice, and teach Indo-Tibetan Ayurvedic healing as "joyful relentless service." as modeled by our inspirations Dr. Patch Adams, M.D. and Dr. Albert Schweitzer, M.D. "You ask me for a motto. Here
it is:
SERVICE." The Most Comprehensive and Low-Cost Distance
Learning: Himalayan Medicine Want to study Ayurvedic Medicine or Tibetan Medicine, but don't like to travel? Hate to sit in class? Can't afford to take time off from your work? If your answer is yes to any of these questions, Medicine Buddha Healing Center's Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute has the perfect solution for your needs. We have Distance Learning Programs on a wide variety of Himalayan Healing Arts topics.
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