SBT – Study and Practice Curriculum
This is an outline of the study, practice, and vow levels of the SBT curriculum and path to awakening.
- Novice Level
- 10-Week Meditation Program
- Skillful Living Level
- Skillful Living Program
- Refuge Level
- Taking refuge vows
- Cultivating the Four Noble Truths
- Bodhisattva Level
- Taking bodhisattva vows
- Cultivating bodhichitta
- Cultivating emptiness
- Cultivating the Six Perfections
- Lay Ordination
- Taking Lay Ordination Vows
- Cultivating awakening
- Monastic Ordination
- Taking Monastic Vows
- Cultivating awakening
Each level of vows is upheld until the practitioner possesses a thorough understanding of the study and practice material and has some proficiency in the practices of that level, which typically takes one year.