The University offers an integrated curriculum that weaves together the following distinct strands: Buddhist Classics, Western Classics, Chinese Classics, Indian Classics, Language, Mathematics, Natural Science, Rhetoric and Writing, and Music. The core curriculum consists of primary texts—Buddhist, Western, Indian, and Chinese Classics—studied and discussed in a pro-seminar setting, conducted in the spirit of shared interpretive inquiry. Through a close reading of primary classics, students can enter into the dynamic dialogues from which many of these texts emerged. They engage the material more intimately as if sitting as participant-observers in discourses that stimulated critical inquiry and self-reflection then and reanimate it now.