TENTATIVE SYLLABUS FOR ENGLISH FOR BUDDHISM

– Buddhism in the world

– The threefold refuge

– Symbols in Buddhism

– Buddhist festivals

– The Buddha’s last day

– The Triple Gem (intro)

– Shrines and images

– Renunciation

– The quest

– Enlightenment

– The five precepts

– The birth of the Prince (intro)

– The youth of the Prince à Renunciation (intro)

– The First Noble Truth

– The Second+Third Noble Truth

– The Forth Noble Truth (The Eightfold Path)

– Daily activities

– The Chief Nuns

Pajapati

Vaidehi

– The laity

– Outstanding lay followers

Anarapindika

Visakha

– Do not do bad

– Do Good

– Keep the mind clean

– Appearance (head, clothing)

– The Chief Monks

The first five monks

The first sixty monks

Kassapa, Sariputta, Mogallana

– The brave quail (No killing)

– Habit of adultery

– A fly and an elephant

– Violation of precepts

– Monks (intro)

– Nuns (intro)

– Lay followers (intro)

– Kisa Gotami

– The monkey trap

– The happy monk

– Raft

– You cannot dirty the sky

– The elephant Nalagiri

– No killing

– No stealing

– No lying

– Respecting teachers

– Helping each other (x2)

– Making good friends

– Do not be selfish

– Do not fight with each other

– Clean mind

Bud1, p.42-45

·   Nouns
Singular/Plural
Articles
[Un]Countable with some and any

·   Adverbs
Manner
Frequency

·   Prepositions
of position
of movement
of time

·   Simple sentence structures
S + Vl + complement
S + Vi
S + Vt + O

·   Present Simple
To be
Other verbs

·   Questions
Yes/No
Wh-

·   Past Simple
[Ir]Regular

·   Adjectives
Attributive/ Predicative
Comparison: comparative, superlative

·   Present Progressive

·   Conditional type 1

·   Conjunctions
Co-ordinate

Bud1, p.9-14

Bud1, p.16-19

Bud, p.27-30

No killing

Bud1, p.48

No stealing

Bud1, p.50

No lying

Bud1, p.52

Bud2, p.59-60

Bud, p.31-33

Bud1, p.37-39

Bud1, p.40-41

Respecting teachers

Bud1, p.54

Helping each other

Bud1, p.56

Helping each other

Bud1, p.58

Making good friends

Bud1, p.60

Do not be selfish

Bud1, p.62

Do not fight with each other

Bud1, p.64

Clean mind

Bud1, p.66

Bud2, p.57-59

[Renunciation-The quest]

Bud2, p.23-26

[Physical suffering]

Bud2, p.42

[mental suffering and others]

Bud2, p.43

Bud2, p.44

[Head à Clothing]

Bud2, p.47-48

[The first five monks]

Bud2, p.30-31

Kisa Gautami

Bud2, p.65-66

The monkey trap

Bud2, p.66-67

The happy monk

Bud2, p.68-69

[Enlightenment]

Bud2, p.26-29

Bud2, p.45-46

Bud2, p.46

The first sixty monks

Bud2, p.31-32

Kassapa, Sariputta, Mogallana

Bud2, p.32-33

Bud2, p.61

Bud2, p.62

Bud2, p.69-70

Bud2, p.70-71

Bud2, p.76

Bud2, p.63-64

[the Buddha’s last day]

Bud2, p.38-40

[A day in a monastery]

Bud2, p.49-50

Pajapati

Bud2, p.33-34

Vaidehi

Bud2, p.33-34

Bud2, p.51-52

Bud2, p.53-54

Bud2, p.55

Bud2, p.56

Bud2, p.36-37

Bud2, p.37-38

The Brave Quail

Bud2, p.72

Adultery

Bud2, p.73

A fly and an elephant

Bud2, p.74

Precept violation

Bud2, p.75