Giáo Trình Thiền Học (best-guess identification — see note below)

Giáo Trình Thiền Học is a curriculum text by the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Chân Quang, written and taught as a formal 20-lesson course on meditation studies (Thiền học) for monastic students (Tăng Ni sinh) at the Long An Province Intermediate Buddhist School, where the author began teaching the subject in 2003. In his own introduction, the author explains that the course was originally intended to go into greater theoretical depth than an earlier, more practice-focused course he had taught, on the reasoning that theory provides direction for practice — but that the course had to be concluded at 20 lessons due to a scheduling change requiring him to move on to teaching a different subject.

Structurally, the curriculum covers the conceptual and historical foundations of meditation (Thiền) within the Buddhist tradition: the meaning and etymology of the term Thiền itself, the development of meditation practice before and after the Buddha, the different schools or lineages (phái) of meditation that emerged over time, and material addressing the role and relevance of meditation in the modern world specifically. The book also addresses the situation and development of meditation practice within Vietnam, situating the broader historical material in a locally specific context relevant to the students it was written for.

Because this is explicitly framed by the author as a foundational, introductory course rather than an exhaustive treatment — he states directly that "the teaching and the path of Thiền are vast and endless" and that these 20 lessons are meant only as a basic orientation for students to carry into a lifetime of further practice and study — the book reads more like a structured academic syllabus than a popular meditation guide aimed at lay readers. It combines doctrinal and historical instruction with the practical framing that theory should serve as a foundation for actual meditation practice, consistent with the author's stated reasoning for the course's design.

Because full lesson-by-lesson content of this specific curriculum text was not independently available to verify beyond its introduction, scope, and general subject areas, the section breakdown below groups the material into broader thematic units based on the confirmed table-of-contents-level structure rather than claiming to reproduce all 20 individual lesson titles with certainty.