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Working with Anger
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A COPY OF THIS RESOURCE GUIDE. ABOUT THIS GUIDE Buddhism distinguishes anger from simply feeling upset or recognizing injustice. Rather, anger is understood as "the wish to harm." Left unchecked, it disturbs our peace, damages relationships, and creates suffering for ourselves and others. Buddhist practice [...]
Compassion Guide
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A COPY OF THIS RESOURCE GUIDE ABOUT THIS GUIDE Compassion is a deeply complex Buddhist concept which includes not only empathy but also a strong determination to help. These teachings always have us start with ourselves. If we have no awareness of our own suffering [...]
Emptiness Guide
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A COPY OF THIS RESOURCE GUIDE. ABOUT THIS GUIDE Much of our suffering comes from believing that people, situations, and even our own identity exist in a fixed and independent way. Buddhism calls this misunderstanding the root of suffering. The study and meditation on emptiness [...]
Buddhist Resource Guide Series: Death and Dying
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A PDF OF THIS GUIDE. ABOUT THIS GUIDE Buddhism views awareness of death not as something morbid, but as a powerful support for living wisely. Reflecting on our mortality helps clarify our priorities, deepen meditation, and prepare us for death with greater peace and confidence. In [...]
Buddhist Resource Guide Series
Please click on the links below to view and/or download a copy (PDF) of the resource guides in this series. The online guides contain live links to resources of interest to the student and practitioner: Anxiety Guide Compassion Guide Death and Dying Guide Emptiness Guide Working with Anger Guide
2027 Low-Residency Transformation: A New Chapter for Graduate Study
Beginning in Fall 2027, Maitripa College will inaugurate a new chapter in its graduate programs with the launch of new low-residency models for both the Master of Arts in Applied Buddhism and the Master of Divinity. This transition represents not a departure from Maitripa's distinctive educational identity, but a deepening of it — an [...]
Maitripa Rabjungma Community
The Maitripa Rabjungma Community is a lineage-rooted formation pathway for women pursuing Buddhist ordination and long-term spiritual leadership, integrating rigorous study, Vinaya training, contemplative practice, retreat, and communal life within the living Nalanda tradition. As the Community completes its inaugural year, this pioneering program continues to demonstrate what it means to cultivate ethical, scholarly, [...]
Maitripa College at the Forefront of Higher Education
At a moment when higher education is reckoning with deep questions of purpose, pedagogy, and institutional culture, Maitripa College finds itself not catching up — but already there. The insights brought home from the DEAC Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. this April (2026) confirm what has long been true of Maitripa: our commitment to [...]
Action Research Project (Capstone)
The Action Research Project is where the MA in Applied Buddhism comes to life. This capstone integrates students’ development as scholar–meditator–practitioners through a values-based, action-oriented research process. Grounded in action research methodology and contemplative inquiry, students design a practitioner-led project to improve practice within a specific community, institutional, ministerial, or social context. Through cycles [...]
Minimum Technology Requirements
The Maitripa College hybrid low-residency model offers students both onsite and online course delivery formats, creating the conditions for an educational journey grounded in spiritual and community formation. A computer (ideally a laptop) is required for all degree, continuing education, and auditing students. This document describes the minimum technology requirements students must [...]
Spiritual Formation Lab
What We Mean by “Spiritual Formation” At Maitripa College, spiritual formation is an intentional, lineage-rooted, and assessable process that integrates academic study, contemplative practice, ethical development, and, where appropriate, professional identity. Formation is not an abstract ideal or private devotional experience. It is a structured and supported developmental process through which students gradually integrate [...]
Low-Residency Transformation at Maitripa College
A Mission-Rooted, Student-Centered Evolution of Graduate Education Forming Scholar-Practitioners for Our Time Maitripa College’s MA in Applied Buddhism (MAAB) and MDiv curriculum couples meditative experience of the path with training to integrate Buddhist principles into active service, grounded in philosophical study, logic, contemplative analysis, and research. Graduates are formed as scholar-practitioners prepared for [...]
