Travel through China together with local Chinese students. Visit local schools, live with homestay families, and experience the day-to-day life of the locals. Travel from the capital of Beijing to the Himalayas of Tibet Participate in service projects and cultural excursions Make life-long friends (or “pengyou” in Chinese 3-Week Itinerary BEIJING Week 1: Travel through Beijing and visit iconic sites like the Great Wall of China, Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven, and the S

The curriculum at Larung Gar Five Sciences Buddhist Academy includes three parts: Sutrayana, Secret Mantrayana, and common culture. The main courses in Sutrayana involve five major categories of treatise: Vinaya, Hetuvidya, Abhidharmakosa-Sastra, Madhyamika and Prajnaparamita. Secret Mantrayana consists of esoteric shastra, various preliminaries, generation phase, completion phase, the Great Perfection, and pith instruction. Common culture pertains to the science of language