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BUDDHA YOGACHARYA
KARMA LEKSHEY LING MONASTERY
Himalayas, Kathmandu - capital of Nepal
August 22nd - September 20th, 2026 - main study course
September 21st-29th, 2026 - exams (optional)

Please read the program description below attentively to find answers at your questions and to avoid not necessary additional questions and to safe the time of all sides.

Please be responsible, and don’t change your plans after you will confirm your participation in this program.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

This program will be taught by Venerable Lama Phuntsok Rimpoche and Khenpo Chogye.
Lama Phuntsok will teach in Tibetan language with translation into English and Russian
Khenpo Chogye will teach in English with translation into Russian

THIS PROGRAM PURPOSE

This program in designed for the two categories of the people:

1. People interested in Buddhist’s philosophy and Vajrayana practices studies.
2. People, practicing and teaching different types of Yoga now days and constantly diling with some concepts related to the Hinduist’s or Buddhist’s philosophies and practice methods, but who do not academically understand the real difference between the Hindu’s and Buddhist’s philosophies and practice methods.
So, this program will clarify very well these particular differences and will develop conscious understanding of every participant of this program of what type of Yoga do they personally follow, practice and teach.

QUALIFICATION

The participants of this program who will take a part in this program fully and who will successfully pass all the exams during this program, will get an official Karma Lekshey Ling Institute Certificates of Buddhist’s Yoga Acharya. And they will have rights to teach any materials of this program to their students without certification of them.

NOTE!

There is no obligation for the participants of this program to become Buddhist’s, to take a part in this program, to graduate it, and to get the Certificates on the base of this program at the end.

DAILY SCHEDULE

The program Buddha Yoga Acharya will last totally 3 years and it will consist of 3 parts 30 + 9 (exams optional) = 39 days each.
There will be one such part per a year offline, and once per a quarter meetings online, for the answers at the questions, during every year.

During 39 days of one year program:
1st-30th days will be have every day 8 hours theory studies and 2 hours of practice
31st-39th days will be 3 exams one by one (optional)
31st-32nd, 34th-35th, and 37th-38th days - self-prepations for exams
33rd and 36th days of theory exams, and 39th day is the practice exam
40th day - answers at the questions and one year participation certification (optional)

The theory part of this program will consist of 720 hours of studies with the teachers and the practice part will consist of 180 hours of self-practice. There also will be at list 150 hours of theory self-studies during preparation for exams. And at list 30 hours of online teaching during 3 years between the main offline parts of the program. So, the program will consist of totally 1080 hours of education and it is equal to the one year of the high education in the University. There will be also a lot of personal practices at home during the 3 years of this program and the time of these individual practices depends of the students dedication and discipline of practice. But the total time of the practice during 3 years potentially can be approximately additional 1000 hours, if to practice 2 hours only every second day during 3 years.

ACCOMODATION

Students will live in double rooms of the the monastery “Joyful Guest House” and they will be provided with cooked vegetarian food in the Guest House dining room.

Price of the accommodation and food US$20/day and it will US$600 for the 30 days of taking a part in the main study program participation. And it will be additionally US$200 during 10 days of the examination (optional).

EDUCATION EEXPENSES

1. Payment for the teaching is based on the personal donations and it is not limited.
2. Copies of the study books are not expensive, but they will be for additional coast and the exact price will be known during copying of them in Nepal right before the program beginning. Students can by these books only if they want and they can not have this small expenses at all, if they don’t need these study books.
3. Price of translator from Tibetan to English is in process of negotiation with translator now. and this price will be equally divided between all the students taking a part in the program. To be announced when negotiation will be finalized.
4. Please do not by your air tickets until the minimum group of 15 students will be collected. And we will inform you about it one month before the program beginning - at July 20th.

PART 1 - First Year

THEORY

I. DETAILED COMPARISON OF HINDUISM AND BUDDHISM
teaching by Khenpo Chogye

Deep comparable views and philosophies differences of Hinduism and Buddhism, based on the commentaries of Indian (Udbhattasiddhasvami,
Prajnavarma, Acharya Sarvajnadeva, Ban de dPal, Acharya Janardan, Vidhyasagara, Negi) and Tibetan (Lo tsa ba Ban de Rin chen mchog, Lo tsa ba Rin,chen bzang po) scholars.

II. LORIK - THE MIND WISDOM AND STATE OF AWARENESS
teaching by Khenpo Chogye

1. The Buddhist’s educational system and the Five Sciences.
2. Lorik - the Mind, Intellect Wisdom, the State of Awareness, Logic.
3. The Homage.
4. The Main Body.
5. The Definitions of Mind, Consciousness and Awareness.
6. General teachings about important divisions of Mind.
7. Definitions and Divisions of Conventional Valid Cognation.
8. Definition, Divisions and Sense of Direct Valid Cognition.
9. Mental Direct Valid Cognition.
10. Self-Aware Direct Valid Cognition.
11. Three modes of Arising of the First Three Direct Valid Cognitions and Concept.
12. Yogic Direct Valid Cognition.
13. Seeming Direct Cognition.
14. Seven Categories of Seeming Direct Cognition According to Dignaga.
15. Summary of the Categories of Seeming Direct Cognition.
16. The definition of Explanation of Interferential Valid Cognition for Oneself.
!7. “A reason Having the Three Modes”.
18. Inferential Valid Cognition: The Reasons and the Three Modes.
19. The Correct Reason of Effect, Nature and Non-Observation.
20. Inferential Valid Cognition for Others.
21. Correct proof Statements with Concordant Attributes, Attributes Based on a Reasons of Effect, Nature and Non-Observation.
22. Correct proof Statements Constructed with Discordant Attributes.
23. Correct proof Statements with Discordant Attributes Based on a Reason of Effect, Nature and Non-Observation.
24. The Definition and Divisions of Non-Valid Cognition: Wrong Cognition, Doubt, Five-Fold, Three-Fold and Two-Fold Subdivisions of Non-Valid Cognition.
25. The result of Valid Cognition in Three Parts, when there is: No Analysis, Slight Analysis, Thorough Analysis.
26. Summary of the Three Stages in Relation to Madhyamika (Middle Way).
27. The Specific Analysis of the Essential Modes of Engagement of Mind.
28. Apprehending Generality and Particulars.
29. The Three Divisions of a Mind Apprehending a Generality and the Generality Type.
30. The Three Divisions of Mind Apprehending a Generality and Collections of the Generality.
31. Mind Apprehending a Particular: it’s Three Divisions, the Mode of engagement of a Mind Apprehending Appearance and Elimination.
32. The First Mode Apprehending Appearance.
33. The Three Aspects of Inclusive Engagers.
34. The First Aspect: Objects. And the Second Aspect: Subjects.
35. The Concordance of Subject and Object.
36. The Second Mode of Engagement: Mind Apprehending Elimination. It’s Four Divisions.
37. The Apprehension of One as Different.
38. The Apprehension of Different as One.
39, The Mode of Engagement of Mind Cognizing Objects of Verbal Expression and the Means of Verbal Expression, and it’s Definition and Divisions.
40. The explanation of the Mode of Engagement of a Mind Cognizing Objects of (Verbal) Expression and the Means of (Verbal) Expression.
41. The Mode of Non-Existence of an Actual (or Immediate).
42. Object of Expression of a Term.
43. The Mind Cognizing Contradiction and Connection: it’s Three Stages.
44. The First Stage: General Teaching
45. Two Connections: That of Identical Essence, and That of Cause.
46. The Second Stage: Refuting Connection Ultimately.
47. The Third Stage: Proving Connection from the Point of View of the Conceptual Mind.
48. The Mind Cognizing Contradiction: it’s Three Divisions.
49. The Two Divisions of Mind Cognizing Contradiction: Direct and Indirect.
50. The Fifth Division of the Modes of Engagement of Mind.
51. Ascertaining Definition, Definiendum and Illustrating Example.
52. The Definition of Definition.
53. The Definition of Illustrating Example.
54. Summary of Definition, Definiendum and Illustrating Example.
55. The Third Main Section of the Lorik: The Distiction Between Mind and Mental Factors: it’s Three Divisions.
56. The First Division: Definitions of Mind and Mental Factors.
57. The Second Division: The Congruence of mind and Mental Factors.
58. The Third Division: The Fifty One Mental Factors.
59. The Five Omnipresent Mental Factors.
60. The Five Object Determining Mental Factors.

III. CHANNELS - NADIS
teaching by Choje Lama Phuntsok Rimpoche

1. The Branches of the Treatise: The Eleven Chapters.
2. The body Channels.
3. Madhyama, Rasana and Lalana Channels. The citation of the relevant scriptural source and summation.
4. The principal Channels.
5. The presentation and identification of the twenty four Channels.
6. The fourteen Channels arising from the Lalana Channel.
7. The ten Channels arising from the Rasana Channel.
8. The five hidden Channels.
9. The explanation of the Channel Chakras.
10. The four Root Chakras.
12. Navel Chakra. The citation of the Vajra Garland’s Names for the Petals.
13. The Heart Chakra.
14. The Throat Chakra.
15. The Head Chakra.
16. The Six Chakras.
17. The Vajra Garlands Presentation.
18. The scriptural citation of the names of the Chakras Petals.
19. Thoughts of the different Tantras.
20. The thoughts of the different Tantras are compatible.
21. The Other Bases of thought.
22. The Joint’s Chakras.
23. The Three Chakras in the Major Joints of the right arm and leg.
24. The Fifteen Chakras in the Minor Joints of the right hand and foot.
25. The Joints Chakras of the left arm, hand, leg and foot are the same as in the right arm, hand, leg and foot.
26. The Chakras in the other Major joints.
27. The illness-producing Channels and the doubts removing.
28. The classifications of the seventy two thousand Channels.
29. The Channels classification in terms of the Natures of the Dhatus and function.
30. The explanation of the Subtle Channels and what the Dhatus produce.

PRACTICE

Every day Practice instructions and following (2 hours) external Buddhist’s Yoga Practices
teaching by Choje Lama Phuntsok Rimpoche

PART 2 - Second Year

THEORY

I. THE THIRTY SEVENFOLD PRACTICE OF A BODHISATTVA
teaching by Khenpo Chogye

1. The need to give meaning to this Human Existence of yours, so rare and Difficult to Obtain.
2. An exhortation to abandon your Native Land, the Source of the Three Poisons.
3. A recommendation to live in the Solitary Place, the Source of All Good Qualities.
4. To reflect on Impermanence, in order to Give Up the Concerns of all good qualities.
5. The need to Avoid Unsuitable Friends, behind with whom creates Adverse Circumstances.
6. To rely on Spiritual Teacher, whose presence Creates Conditions favorable to Your Progress.
7. To go for Refuge, the entrance to the Buddhist’s teaching.
8. The Path for the beings with Lesser Capacity.
9. The Path for the beings of Medium Capacity.
10. The Path for the beings of Superior Capacity.
11. The Bodhichitta (Awaken Consciousness) of Intention.
12. The Bodhichitta (Awaken Consciousness) of Application.
13. Relative Bodhichitta (Awaken Consciousness).
14. The Meditation practice of Exchanging Oneself and Others.
15. The Post-Meditation practice of using Unfavorable Circumstances of the Path.
16. Using on the Path the Four Things you Do Not Want to Happen.
a). How to use Loss of the Path.
b). How to use Suffering on the Path.
c). How to use Disgrace on the Path.
d). How to use Disparagement on the Path.
17. Using on the Path the Two Things that are difficult to bear.
18. How to use on the Path being wronged in return for kindness.
19. How to use humiliation on the Path.
20. Using deprivation and prosperity on the Path.
21. How to use deprivation on the Path.
22. How to use prosperity on the Path.
23. Using hatred and desire on the Path.
24. How to use objects of hatred on the Path.
25. How to use objects of Desire on the Path.
26. Absolute Bodhichitta (Awaken Consciousness).
27. The Meditation practice of remaining in a state free of concerns.
28. The Post-Meditation practice of Abandoning any Believe in the Objects of Desire and Aversion as Truly Existing.
29. Abandoning Any Belief In the Objects of Desire as Truly Existing.
30. Abandoning Any Belief In the Objects of Aversion as Truly Existing.
31. The Precepts for Training in those practices.
32. Training in the Six Transcendent Perfections.
a). Transcendent Generosity.
b. Transcendent Discipline.
c). Transcendent Patience.
d). Transcendent Diligence.
e). Transcendent Concentration.
f). Transcendent Wisdom.
33. The Training in the Four Instructions taught In the Sutra.
a). To Examine Oneself For one’s Own Defects and to Give them Up.
b). To Give Up Speaking of a Bodhisattva’s Faults.
c). To Give Up Attachment to a Sponsor’s Property.
d). To Give Up the Harsh Speech.
34. Training In how to Be Rid of Negative Emotions.
35. Training in Accomplishing Other’s Good with Mindfulness and Vigilance.
36. Dedicating the Merit to Perfect Enlightenment.
37. Concluding Verses.
38. How and for whom this text was composed.
39. The unerring Nature Of these Practices.
40. A humble Prayer for Forgiveness.
41. Dedicating the Merit of having composed this text
42. The colophon.
43. Final Advise.
44. The Right and Wrong Teacher.
45. A Practice of Guru Yoga.
46. Supplementary commentary on Desire. The Dangers of Eating Meat,Smoking, Alcohol, Drugs and Sex.
47. Supplementary commentary on Transcendent Concentration.
a). Sustained Calm and Profound Insight.
b). Concentration.
48. Supplementary Commentary on Wisdom.
49. Mind Training Prayer.
50. Q & A.

II. ENERGIES - WINDS - VAYUS
teaching by Choje Lama Phuntsok Rimpoche

1. The ways the Winds Move.
2. The nature of the Winds in terms of what is Produced and the Means of Production.
3. The natures of the Five Main Root Winds.
4. The natures of the Five Secondary Winds.
5. The way the Winds develop and dissolve.
6. The reference to the Vajra Wisdom Compendium Scripture.
7. The location and the functions of the Five Main Root Winds: Life Force, Downward Expelling, Fire-Coinciding, Upward Moving, Pervading.
8. The location and functions of the Secondary Winds.
9. The Stages of External and Internal Movements of the Winds and their functions.
10. The way Internal Winds movements occur.
11. The way the Winds movements occur in the four Root, Heart and Head Chakras.
12. The Kalachakra System’s Winds movements in the Head Chakra.
13. The Chakrasamvara’s and Hevajra’s and other’s system’s Winds movements in the Head Chakra.
14. The way Winds movements occur in the Throat Chakra.
15. The divisions of the Throat Chakra Petals.
16. The Kalachakra’s explanation of the way the Throat Chakra Winds move.
17. Other Tantras explanation.
18. The ways the Winds movements occur on the Navel Chakra.
19. The divisions of the Navel Chakra Petals.
20. The ways the Navel Chakra’s Winds move according to the Kalachakra system.
21. The generic character of the Dhatus of the Channels.
22. The way Winds movements occur in the Joint Chakras and in all the Channels.
23. The ancillary principles of cessation.
24. The summary with a refference to the compendium of the Astrological texts.
25. The ways the External Winds movements occur.
26. Winds entrances.
27. The ways the Solar and Moon Winds move.
28. The ways the Rahu Winds move.
29. The identification of the First movement of the Lagna Winds.
30. The explanation of Lagnas.
31. The number of Individual Samkrantis: Right, Left, number of Combined.
32. The explanation of Madhyama Parts.
33. Identification of Madhyama Parts moving into the Lagnas and their functions.
34. The principles of Three Years and Three (Fifteen-Day Lunnar) Phases.
35. The sequence of Winds movements, the Colors, Forces, and Qualities.
36. The Arias of the Nostrils where the Winds Emerge.
37. Colors of the Winds.
38. The correlations of the Winds with the External Planets.
39. The Activities the Winds perform.
40. The Distances the Winds travel externally.
41. The thoughts of the various Tantras are not Contradictory.
42. The extract of the Vajra Garland Tantra.
43. The Vajra Repetition, what is to be accomplished.
44. The Winds of the Great Darkness, what is to be stopped.
45. The way the Repetition is performed.
46. The Purpose of This Point.
47. The entrances and benefits, and the retention methods.
48. The benefit of Purification of the Eight Percepts and Perceivers.
49. The benefit of the Enhancement of the Five Elements.
50. The explanation that all Samsara and Nirvana is off the Nature of Wind.

PRACTICE

Every day Practice instructions and following (2 hours) internal Buddhist’s Yoga Practices
teaching by Choje Lama Phuntsok Rimpoche

PART 3 - Third Year

THEORY

I. THE PRIMARY CAUSE OF THE ESSENCE OF THE WELL-GONE ONE
teaching by Khenpo Chogye

1.Buddha Nature.
2. Disconnected Family.
3. Indefinite Family.
4. Hearer Family.
5. Solitary Realizer Family.
6. Mahayana Family.
a). Classification.
b). Definition.
c). Synonyms.
d). Superiority.
e). Causal Characteristics.
f). Marks.

II. THE TATHAGATAGARVA - THE ESSENCE OF TATHAGATAS
teaching by Khenpo Chogye

1. An Explanation of the Title.
2. Why Shastras Were Written & Nine Categories of Shastras.
3. Homages in Traditional Texts
4. When Did Samsara Begin? When Will It End?
5. Definitions of the Buddha Nature.
6. Beginningless”.
7. Element.
8. Phenomena.
9. Location.
10. Exists.
11. The End.
12. How Does Samsara Arise.
13. How Samsara arises through incorrect thoughts.
14. How the Root of Delusion arises through Attachment and Aversion.
15. The Remedy.
16. Why The Tathagatagarva Shastra was written.
17. The Five Negative Consequences that arise from having Erroneous Thoughts.
18. Thirty-Two Unsurpassable Qualities of the Dharmakaya.
19. The Ten Strengths.
20. The Four Types of Fearlessness.
21. The Eighteen Distinct Qualities of a Buddha only.
22. The Buddha Nature is not manifest in ordinary beings.
23. The method by which the Buddha Nature can be seen.
24. The Wonderful Rupa Kayas.
25. The Nirmana Kaya.
26. The Sambhoga Kaya.
27. The Dharma Kaya.
28. Thirty Two Wonderful Qualities of the Form Kayas.
29. How do the Form Kayas appear.
30. Teaching through Example.
31. The meaning of the example.
32. Three Obscurations.
33. How Conceptualizations are Gradually eliminated.
34. The Changeless Essence according to the Tradition.
35. Refutations and Proof.
36. The Presence of Wisdom.
37. Discriminating Wisdom.
38. Wisdom that Accomplishes Actions.
39. Wisdom of Equality.
40. Lasting Wisdom.
41. Three Permanences.
42. Three Impermanences .
43. The relationship between the Permanences and Impermanences.
44. Eliminating Doubts of Other Viewpoints.
45. Quotations that Describe Realization of the Buddha Nature.
46. A Quotation from the “Sutralamkara”.
47. A Quotation from “The Mahayanavimshika”.
48. The Buddha Nature according to “The Uttaratantrashastra”.
49. A Summary of the Sutras and Tantras by the Third Karmapa.
50. Conclusion & Dedication.

III. POINTS - BINDUS
teaching by Choje Lama Phuntsok Rimpoche

1. The Tree Bindus.
2. The Root Bindu, free from elaborations.
3. The Bindus of Deluded Ignorance.
4. Material Bindus.
5. How the Conditions come together in the Bardo.
6. Two Types of Quintessences: White and Red Elements. Presentation of their shared qualities.
7, How the Dregs develop.
8. How Quintessence develop from the food and drink, and how the Quintessences and Other Substances are processed in the Seven Internal Rebirths.
9. How the Dregs of the Dregs are expelled. How the Quintessences and Dregs of semen develop.
10. The Thirty Six Dhatus.
11. How the Twelve Quintessences move.
12. The detailed specific explanation of the Twenty Four Dregs.
13. The Abodes and Nearby Abodes.
14. Fields and Nearby Fields.
15. Chandohas and Nearby Chandohas.
16. The Gathering Places and Nearby Gathering Places.
17. Charnel Grounds and Nearby Charnel Grounds.
18. The process which the White Elements are transformed.
19. The way the Seventy Two Dhatus change.
20. The way the Seventy Two Thousand Dhatus abide now.
21. The Transference of the Bindu Quintessences: the Stages and the Role.
22. Stages of the binding and remedial Bindus.
23. What is binding and the stages of the binding.
24. The stages of attaining the Path of Seeing.
25. The stages of progressing through the Path of Meditation.
26. The Results of the Binding. The Short Time Results and the Final Results.
27. The Ancillary presentation: Correcting Flaws and identifying the Bases of the Flaws.
28. The reasons Those Bases Create Flaws and the methods for Correcting those Flaws. Presentation of the Flaws and Virtues.
29. The Introductory Link and the Purposes of Meditating on the Material, Mantra and Wind Bindus.
30. Collective Synopsis of all program.

SECRET PRACTICE

Every day Practice instructions and following (2 hours) secret Buddhist’s Yoga Practices
teaching by Choje Lama Phuntsok Rimpoche