The Special Teacher Training Programme
This course is a new special course designed by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso to help prepare and train qualified teachers in Kadampa Buddhism.
The duration of each course is six months, running from April to September each year. The first course will begin at Manjushri KMC in April 2012 with the General Spiritual Director Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong as the Teacher.
Thereafter it will be offered yearly and be taught either by the General Spiritual Director or the Deputy Spiritual Director.
Successful applicants will receive the following facilities free of charge from NKT:
1. A six-month course on the Special Teacher Training Programme
2. Accommodation and food at Manjushri KMC for the duration of the course
3. Travel expenses to and from Manjushri KMC
4. Assistance with visa applications if required
5. Certificate upon completion of the course.
6. At the end of the course students who successfully complete the programme and are awarded a certificate will be offered a full time position as a Kadampa Buddhist Resident Teacher
The requirements of the students of this programme are:
1. To have been a practitioner of Kadampa Buddhism for a number of years, but at least two
2. To have the wish to become a qualified Kadampa Buddhist Teacher
3. To be free to become a full time Kadampa Buddhist
Applicants for 2012 programme - Deadline Feb. 15, 2012
Interested and qualified students associated with Atisha Buddhist Centre should apply in writing to the Secretary of the General Spiritual Director using the application (click here), before the deadline of the 15th February, 2012.