Given in Manchester, April 2000, by Dharmachari Nagapriya, Member of the Western Buddhist Order, former chairman of Vajrakuta Buddhist Study Centre, and author of Karma and Rebirth, and Visions of Mahayana Buddhism.

1. Introduction

2. What karma is not

3. What karma is

4. The Buddhist view of karma

5. Rebirth

6. Questions

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1. Introduction

2. Meanings of 'Sangha'

3. Why is the Sangha one of the Three Jewels?

4. Origins of Sangha

5. Laypeople and monastics

6. Settled monastics & the Vinaya

7. Hinayana and Mahayana

8. Sangha in the modern world

9. Conclusion

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Given in Manchester, March 2001, by Dr Elizabeth English, former lecturer in Religious Studies at St Martin's College, Carlisle.

1. Introduction

2. Anatta as one of the Three Marks

3. No fixed self

4. Five Skandhas exercise

5. The Five Skandhas

6. Attachment to the idea of self

7. Understanding of no-self = spirit

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Their Development and Characteristics. Given in Manchester, April 2000, by Dr Andrew Skilton, Lecturer in Buddhist Studies at Cardiff University, author of A Concise History of Buddhism, and co-translator of the Buddhist scripture the Bodhicharyavatara.

1. Introduction

2. Introduction to the three yanas

3. Historical models, 'bad' and 'good'

4. The Shravakayana (Hinayana)

5. The Mahayana

6. The Vajrayana

7. What's wrong with the 'bad' model?

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