A New Way of Seeing the World: Discovering Buddhist Wisdom
May 15 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
A New Way of Seeing the World: Discovering Buddhist Wisdom
Weekly ONLINE interactive course over 10 weeks with Dominique Side
This interactive course is an exploration of the key points of Buddhist thought. It examines these perspectives closely to see the similarities and differences between Buddhist views and contemporary ideas. We will be invited to revisit our own views and clarify for ourselves what our outlook on life actually is. This process leads to far greater confidence in the way we see things.
The course covers these topics:
Week 1 What is wisdom?
Week 2 Mindfulness: the support of wisdom
Week 3 How things appear and how things are
Week 4 The Four Noble Truths
Week 5 Who am I ? Body and mind
Week 6 The afflictions: how do they function and how can we eliminate them?
Week 7 Karma: what it is, how it works, can a Buddhist do without it?
Week 8 The Wheel of Life
Week 9 What does enlightenment mean?
Week 10 The journey: Stages on the Buddhist path
May 15, 2025 – July 17, 2025
Available on Rigpa’s Online Courses platform from 15 May until 17 July 2025,
Live sessions every Thursday, 19:00 – 20:30 Australian Eastern Standard Time (11:00 – 12:30 CET)
About Dominique Side
Dominique encountered Tibetan Buddhism in the mid-seventies in London—it rapidly became her life’s passion. Since then she has dedicated her life to communicating the extremely practical and at the same time deeply profound ideas of Tibetan Buddhism to people of all walks of life.
Dominique has studied with Sogyal Rinpoche and Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche in particular, and has completed several strict practise retreats. She also obtained a PhD in Madhyamaka philosophy from Bristol University, UK. She taught Buddhism in London schools for eight years and wrote several textbooks on the subject. Under the guidance of Dzongsar Khyentse she initiated the Milinda training programme for Dharma teachers in 2017. For five years Dominique served as vice-president of the European Buddhist Union; and she manages Windows into Buddhism, a website with educational resources for those who teach Buddhism to children.
Entrusted as a Senior Teacher in Rigpa, she specialises in making Buddhist thought and philosophy accessible to all.
Recently Dominique started writing in-depth articles from the Buddhist perspective for her blog The Softer Gaze, that have the power to enrich the everyday and support a softer view of life, one that is infused with the Buddha’s compassionate gaze.
She is author of Discovering Buddhism (2022) that presents the history and key ideas of all the main traditions of Buddhism in an accessible way for the general public and the education sector. She edited two books by the Dalai Lama, The Four Noble Truths (Thorsons, 1998) and Transforming the Mind (Thorsons, 1999).
