Band E (Ages 15-18)
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Exploring music as a medium for expressing dharma
Analyze how specific musical elements in chosen pieces convey Buddhist values, evaluating how qualities like...
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Relating to Arya beings
Analyze the qualities of noble beings, evaluate which qualities to cultivate personally, and create strategies...
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Anticipating and accepting challenges without judgment in the creative process
Create art with a gentle, non-aggressive attitude toward self and process, and evaluate the balance...
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Varying Buddhist approaches to consuming animals
Formulate a clear rationale for your choice regarding vegetarianism, and evaluate your capacity to demonstrate...
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Revering and protecting life
Analyze the first precept's prohibition against killing in relation to Buddhist teachings on interdependence and...
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Turn inward
Analyze the difference between accepting teachings through belief, versus discovering truth through direct experience, then...
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Habits and disciplines that support mastery of the arts
Identify and define the six paramitas; analyze how diligence (*virya*), concentration (*dhyana*), and patience (*ksanti*)...
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The mind-training practice of the different levels of experience along the path
Identify the four types of attachment described in this teaching. Examine how each manifests in...
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Working with pleasant and unpleasant experiences
Investigate the experience of practicing equanimity with naturally-arising pleasurable and unpleasurable experiences; and develop some...
