User:Owlmonkey/Shedra

Additional info
Geluk texts and sequence is described here on jules web site. He also lists additional commentary authors for rumtek and namdroling, to incorporate with that citation.

Possible Citations
From amazon book search:
 * Indesctructible Truth
 * p. 195
 * lists curriculum of the geluk shedra
 * p. 368
 * denotes abhidharma is a key part of the training


 * Mukpo, Diana J & Gimian, Carolyn (2006) Dragon Thunder: My Life with Chögyam Trungpa ISBN 1590302567
 * p. 64 - description of CTR's daily life in the shedra


 * Gyamtso, Khenpo Tsultrim (2003) The Sun of Wisdom: Teachings on the Noble Nagarjuna's Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way ISBN 1570629994
 * p. 168
 * areas of study in kagyu shedra

From google book search:
 * Yust, Karen-Marie (2006) Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions ISBN 074254463X
 * p.181
 * Not all monks enter shedra, others study ritual and other specializations instead. though they can request philosophic instruction or tutoring separately


 * Brown, L., Armington, S., and Whitecross, R. W. (2007) Bhutan ISBN 1740595297
 * p. 73
 * shedra is a philosophy school
 * monks join a shedra or instead study ritual
 * a shedra develops a young monk's knowledge and understanding of a range of Buddhist texts and teachings.
 * p. 153 - can be a nine-year program


 * Chodron, Thubten (2000) Blossoms of the Dharma: Living As a Buddhist Nun ISBN 1556433255
 * p. 53 - Nitharta University was created in the model of shedras, with the goal of instructing advanced western students


 * Stewart, Jampa Mackenzie (2004) The Life of Gampopa ISBN 1559392142
 * p.134 - described as school of buddhist dialectics
 * no uniformity of syllabus between the different tibetan lineage or emphasis
 * geluk and sakya consider it essential for training, whereas nyingma and kagyu less so


 * Geshe Georges Dreyfus and excerpts from his book The Sound of Two Hands Clapping The Education of a Tibetan Buddhist Monk
 * In fact, excerpts for his book are available for reading there and go into great detail into the Geluk tradition texts used and how they're organized.

More Notes
In English it is variously rendered as a
 * university
 * monastic college
 * philosophy school
 * monastic place of learning
 * college of advanced studies
 * school of buddhist dialectics

From looking at the buddhist in mongolia article, there's also the possible angle of how buddhism was used as a form of nation building and shedra would have been a component of that, including a way to promote education and unify sections of central asia under a single system of religion and government. the conflict between the different sects of tibetan buddhism and burning of shedras is then another take on that discussion.