{"id":2698,"date":"2021-04-16T19:04:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T19:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maitripa.org\/registrar\/?p=2698"},"modified":"2026-05-29T19:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:09:13","slug":"mdt426-meditation-and-transformation-lineage-devotion-and-guru-yoga-in-the-gelug-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maitripa.org\/registrar\/mdt426-meditation-and-transformation-lineage-devotion-and-guru-yoga-in-the-gelug-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"MDT426 Meditation and Transformation: Lineage, Devotion, and Guru Yoga in the Gelug Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:104%;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><em>(2 credits)<\/em> This course introduces the Guru Puja (Lama Ch\u00f6pa) and related practices as complete contemplative systems for personal transformation in the Gelug tradition. Through readings, discussion, meditation, and reflection, students examine how these practices integrate devotion, ethical commitment, analytical inquiry, and meditative insight into a unified path of spiritual and psychological growth. Combining historical and philosophical study with direct contemplative experience, the course explores how lineage and the teacher\u2013student relationship function as relational and ethical frameworks for transformation, with particular attention to discernment, responsibility, and agency within asymmetrical relationships. 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