One passage occurs in his Abhidharma-samuccaya (Compendium of the higher teachings), another occurs at the end of a chapter of his Yogācāra-bhūmi-śāstra (Treatise on the stages of the practice of yoga) and a third occurs in a work which survives only in Chinese translation, Shùn zhèng lùn (Treatise on according with what is correct).
It reserved its initiations exclusively for monastics, who had to prove themselves worthy of higher teachings with decades of intensive practice locked way behind the world's highest mountains.
Realize that higher teachings are worthless if you can't even practice the most basic teachings, such as ethics (avoiding the ten non-virtuous actions).
So you should start with ethics and do your best to start with the most basic teachings first and master them, or at least get a good grounding with them, before moving on to higher teachings.
This model of learning is a key concept behind the educational benefits of using virtual field guides/trips in higher education teachings.
27 This, combined with limited funding, high-teaching burdens, low-quality facilities and frustrations with bureaucratic and operational hurdles found in this and another study, 27 all serve as strong disincentives to research.
Universities were "generally opposed" to the development of teaching-led universities, while other higher education institutions supported the principle, the consultation revealed.
BYU's honor code is unusually strict compared to most higher education institutions, but that's because it falls in line with teachings of the Mormon church.
But in the context of the One Vehicle, it is itself an instantiation of the One Vehicle, and even gives unique expression to it: hence the claim (based on a clever strong misreading of a line from Kumārajīva's translation of the Lotus: 決了聲聞法 為諸經之王) that the Hinayana doctrine (rather than the Lotus itself) is itself the Highest of All Teachings.
The popularity of distance education has grown rapidly over the last decade in Taiwan's higher education, yet many fundamental teaching learning issues are still in debate.
