Here you can download handouts for a six-week course introducing the various schools of Mahayana Buddhism. The handouts were provided by Achala from New Zealand. Please note that Achala says they all need further improvement! 

This is what Achala said about his intentions when designing this course:

I tried to construct a course such that it:

• covers what an average human being needs to effectively practice Buddhism.
   
• doesn’t not have a scholastic bent (so a few Pali/Sanskrit terms seemed reasonable but not so many as

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