Self Study Dharma Courses

Self Study Dharma Courses
Explore powerful self-study courses that bring Buddhist teachings into everyday life. These courses are designed to help you understand yourself better, find spiritual growth, and make positive changes at your own pace.
From learning about Integrating the Shadow to exploring generosity (dāna) or women in Buddhism, each course offers clear and practical insights. Whether you’d like to explore combining astrology with Buddhism for spiritual unfoldment, discover paths to awakening, get insight on the practice of generosity, or better understand a more enlightened view of gender in the Buddhist tradition, these teachings are here to guide your journey.
We welcome you to start your self-study journey today and wish they bring you meaningful transformation in your life.
AstroDharma
Self Study Online Course
Astrology and Buddhism?! These are two powerful tools to help us better understand ourselves as individuals, our lives, the nature of being human, and the universe around us.
Intro to AstroDharma is an online self-study program developed by Catherine Pawasarat Sensei.
Self Study Online Course
Planet Dharma’s Qapel and Sensei distill a life-changing practice into four core paths that you can apply to your home, work and relationships. Wake Up beckons to those looking for a path to spiritual awakening in the modern world.
Women & Buddhism
Self Study Online Course
Want to go deeper in your exploration of women and gender in buddhism? Join Catherine Pawasarat Sensei for her watch-anytime online course Buddhist Women in the 2020’s, presented by the Menla Institute. Held over three days, with 6 hours of content, this inspiring series of talks and reflections is now available on the Menla Online platform.
Dāna
Self Study Online Course
Generosity is a very central part of Buddhism, as well as other wisdom traditions. In Buddhism, generosity is known as dāna. It was often the first practice that Buddha would give to beginning students and you may know it as the first parami or paramita.
This self study course will help to cultivate a living generosity practice.