Advanced Self-Paced Learning

The Advanced self-paced learning guides you through refined grammar and dharma vocabulary, opening the door to understanding dharma talks in Tibetan.

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The Advanced self-paced learning is designed for students who want to deepen their Tibetan while exploring dharma vocabulary and advanced grammar. Using materials from The Heart of Tibetan Language, Volume 3 (beta version), these resources take you beyond everyday conversation into meaningful discussions about Buddhist themes such as the life of the Buddha, the Three Turnings of the Wheel, and the practice of refuge.

You can choose between two options: the Full Package, which includes the complete set of study resources, or Webinars Only, which provides in-depth grammar and vocabulary explanations through video lessons.

What You'll Learn

By completing the Advanced self-paced learning, you'll be able to:

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Use advanced grammar tools such as temporal connectives and nominalizers

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Understand and practice essential dharma vocabulary

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Read and work with selections from The Heart of Tibetan Language, Volume 3

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Understand some overlaps and differences of colloquial and classical grammar

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Advanced Full Package

All resources from The Heart of Tibetan Language, Volume 3 (Lessons 21–25).

What's included:

  • Revised draft lessons with audios, exercises, and solutions
  • Engaging beta-version webinars (1–2 per lesson, 1–2 hours each) on grammar, Dharma terms (ནང་ཆོས་དར་སའི་ལུང་པ་ཡི་སྐོར།, སངས་རྒྱས་ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པའི་རྣམ་ཐར།, དམ་པའི་ཆོས་འཁོར་རིམ་པ་གསུམ།), and verses from the Legshed Jonwang
  • Lesson plans (དཀར་པང་།) + translations of non-human student questions/conversations (from the webinars)
  • Tibetan songs with translation
  • Anki & Memrise decks (vocab, example sentences, audio, Wylie)
  • Practice exercises: listening, vocabulary, reading comprehension
  • Digital speaking practice on Moodle
  • Rubrics & reflection prompts for self-assessment and cultural insights

💡 Especially useful if you're preparing to join Upper Advanced 302.

👉 30% discount for ordained Sangha (email us for a coupon).

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Advanced Webinar Package

Just the webinars — a lighter option.

What's included:

  • Access to beta webinars (Lessons 21–25) with full grammar explanations and Dharma vocabulary
  • Revised draft textbook & exercise book (samples available)
  • Webinar setting includes interactive "non-human classmates" — Ms. Giraffe, Ms. Ostrich, Venerable Thubten Turtle, and Mr. Black Sheep — who ask questions only in Tibetan
  • Lesson plan and translations of questions/conversations (of the webinars) included

Topics covered:

  • • Temporal connectives (སྐབས།, དུས།, རིང་།, པའི་རྗེས་ལ།, etc.)
  • • Nominalizers (སྟངས།, སྲོལ།, ཚུལ།)
  • • Secondary verbs (ཆོག་པ།, སྲིད་པ།, རན་པ།, etc.)
  • • Dharma topics (ནང་ཆོས་དར་སའི་ལུང་པ་ཡི་སྐོར།, སངས་རྒྱས་ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པའི་རྣམ་ཐར།, དམ་པའི་ཆོས་འཁོར་རིམ་པ་གསུམ།): life of the Buddha, Three Turnings, how to listen to teachings, etc.
  • • Verses from Legshed Jonwang, commentary to the Sumcu pa

👉 30% discount for ordained Sangha (email us for a coupon).

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A Snippet of our Advanced 301 Webinar

ℹ️ This is a beta version of the video/webinar. The final version will include puppets and improved visuals.

Important Note

These resources are supplements. They give you clear explanations and practice opportunities, but they don't replace live conversation or study groups. Tibetan grows best in community — join a course, small study circle or work with a private tutor for real progress.

These packages do not include any recordings of live classes for privacy reasons of our dear students.

Who It's For

These resources are designed for students who have completed the Intermediate level and are ready to advance their Tibetan, focusing on the unique blend of Buddhist terminology and colloquial language needed to understand Dharma teachings.

They are especially valuable for those preparing to join the Upper Advanced live course or anyone with an interest in deepening their practice through language.

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Ready to Plunge into Dharma Vocabulary in Colloquial?

...and expand your language and dharma skills today!

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This Colloquial Tibetan program is part of
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