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Zen Peacemaker Order: Overview: Curriculum: Overview

Introductory Studies:

  • Recommended Reading
  • Recommended Practices
  • Meditation
  • Rule of the ZPS (Refuges, Tenets, Precepts, Commitments)
  • Values, Vision and Mission of the ZPS
  • Council Practice
  • Plunge Practice
  • History of the ZPS

Doctrinal Studies

  • Recommended Reading
  • Recommended Practices
  • Four Noble Truths and Eightfold Path
  • Dependent origination
  • Impermanence, non-self, suffering, nirvana
  • "Emptiness"
  • Precepts
  • Nagarajuna

Experiential Studies of Zen Principles

  • Recommended Reading
  • Recommended Practices
  • Ox Program
  • Koan Study
  • Gate of Sweet Nectar
  • Extended Precept Study

Field Studies and Internships

  • Recommended Reading
  • Recommended Practices
  • Prison work
  • Hospital work
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Homeless work
  • Environmental work

Historical Studies

  • Recommended Reading
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  • History of Buddhism
  • History of Zen
  • History of Buddhist Clergy
  • History of Buddhist Laity
  • History of the Idea of Enlightenment
  • Special Topics in History (e.g. Mahayana, or Meditation Schools, or Vinaya)

Interfaith Studies

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  • Recommended Practices
  • Comparative Religion
  • Interfaith Dialogues

Liturgical Studies

General Liturgy

  • Recommended Reading
  • Recommended Practices
  • Home Services
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  • History and Theory of Ritual
  • Gate of Sweet Nectar

Special Liturgy

  • Recommended Reading
  • Recommended Practices
  • Becoming a Buddhist
  • Priest ordination
  • Temple officiating
  • Weddings, funerals, baby blessings

Professional Studies

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  • Recommended Practices
  • Chaplaincy Work (hospitals, prisons, others)
  • Pastoral Counseling
  • Family Life
    • Buddhist Education
    • Children
    • Partners both unaffiliated and affiliated
  • Mentoring
    • Community Building
    • Psychodynamic and psychosocial issues (Transference, projection)
    • Relationship Boundaries √ú Sex, Money, Power
    • Sangha dynamics
    • Working in an interfaith environment

Textual Studies

  • Recommended Reading
  • Recommended Practices
  • Lotus Sutra
  • Heart Sutra
  • Diamond Sutra
  • Vimalakirti Sutra
  • Visuddhi Magga
  • Sutra on the First Turning of the Wheel
  • Sutra on the Great Decease
  • Sutra on the Elephant's Footprint
  • Shobogenzo
  • 20th Century Texts

World Peacemaking Studies

  • Recommended Reading
  • Recommended Practices
  • Four Commitments
  • Socially Engaged Buddhism
  • Socially Engaged Spirituality

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