AnCIENT Secrets to Success
Money comes from Giving
Happiness comes from being Kind
Beauty comes from Patience
Leadership comes from Enjoying your Work
Peace comes from Meditation
Freedom comes from Wisdom
And Love accomplishes all these Goals
-Arya Nagarjuna
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AnCIENT Secrets to Success
Money comes from Giving
Happiness comes from being Kind
Beauty comes from Patience
Leadership comes from Enjoying your Work
Peace comes from Meditation
Freedom comes from Wisdom
And Love accomplishes all these Goals
-Arya Nagarjuna
Asian Classics Institute makes the foundational, profound, and transformational teachings of the Buddha available to the world
Stewards of classical Asian traditions in the lineage of Je Tsongkhapa. We train teachers; produce teaching events; archive original works, translations, and recordings of teachings; and distribute this material worldwide
Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events
Navigating The Great Journey
Understanding the Wheel of LIfe
July 18-25, 2018
Guadalajara, Mexico
Geshe Michael Roach returns to Mexico for the Gift of Liberation series, taught originally by Pabongka Rinpoche in a 24 day lecture in the early 20th century. With exquisite detail and breath of knowledge, Geshe Michael Roach brings these teachings alive to modern audiences and how to live them in our daily lives.
Wisdom
Part One | Nagarjuna's Most famous Text
OCtober 4-13, 2018
Diamond Mountain Retreat Center
Starting in October, Geshe Michael Roach will begin a new translation of Master Nagarjuna's (~250AD) masterpiece, simply titled Wisdom. Following the success of the Master Kamalashila retreat programs, we will begin an intensive study of this text, and offer a deep retreat experience at Diamond Mountain Retreat Center. Each day, we will have one in-depth class early in the morning that will lead into a full day's practice in the quiet, serene, high Arizona desert.
The Gift to Highest Freedom
Asian Classics Institute Thailand Retreat
DecemBer 8-15, 2018
HUA hin, Thailand
With the golden sun and blue sea, join us in this grand gathering of the global Diamond Cutter Wisdom practitioners. We will return to Thailand for a third year of courses to learn about the highest gift we can give to ourselves and to the world. We will continue our study of one of the greatest texts on the methods we need to develop wisdom and compassion.
Registration is open now, and special early bird pricing until June 30, 2018. After that date, prices go up by 7% in July, and then another 7% in October.
Programs
Programs
Teacher Training
ACI is commencing a Lam Rim Teacher Training program in 2018, and will continue to expand our offerings for teacher trainings in the ACI courses, in our upcoming meditation studios, and on how to run a retreat program.
Translation
More than 200,000 pages of brilliant commentary have been composed by masters and scholars in the Tibetan language. The aim of this project is to create and guide a team of students to translate these great classics. We’re beginning by translating into English, and from there, the work will be easily translated into modern Chinese, Spanish, German, Russian and many other languages.
Digital Archives
The digital archives is an active collection of audio and video recordings of teachings by Geshe Michael Roach and his teachers, along with his translations and commentaries on scriptures created by the great masters of Buddhism. All of this material is accompanied by the original Tibetan and is freely available for download on this website and on our sister site, The Knowledge Base.
Community Outreach
ACI's mission also includes putting the teachings into practice and taking them out into our communities to directly serve others. In Arizona, there are many immigrants who struggle to make a living and to have access to education ACI supports programs to help the children of immigrants, with language instruction, funding for higher education initiatives and other support programs in underserved communities.
Foreign study
Since 2004, the Foreign Study Program, started by Geshe Michael Roach, has sent over 50 students to a number of institutions abroad to study Tibetan language, culture, and religion. Previous participants are now active translating and teaching this material. Students who cannot afford to go receive scholarships for airfare as well as for room and board.
Scholarships
Our goal is to make the teachings accessible to everyone, regardless of financial capacity. Each year, we support many students on full and partial scholarships. Up to 25% of the participants in our programs are on one of the many types of grants we offer.
