Band E (Ages 15-18)
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Skillful reflection
Analyze the distinction between wise and unwise attention in personal experience; evaluate how different types...
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Buddhist women in patriarchal society
Analyze the Buddha's teachings on gender equality, and evaluate the historical challenges women have faced...
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Work as practice, finding dignity in labor
Analyze the Buddhist concept of right livelihood as it applies to contemporary work and service;...
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De-escalating conflict and promoting harmony with mediation
Analyze the role of dependent origination and subjective perception in creating miscommunication and conflict; evaluate...
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Everyone is responsible for their own awakening
Analyze how the Buddha's teaching on self-mastery challenges common assumptions about external salvation or rescue,...
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Maintaining an open mind, fresh and curious
Analyze the relationship between "beginner's mind" and insight as taught in Zen Buddhism; evaluate how...