2020 Calendar of Events

Upcoming Events

Bardo Teachings – Self Paced Course

With Pema Khandro, Father Francis Tiso, Lama Lhanang Rinpoche, Chagdud Khadro, Shugen Roshi, Julie Rogers, Jim Tucker, M.D., Koshin Paley Ellison and Dr. William McGrath

Open Dates

Teachings on Death and Dying Facing realities of dying, death, and grief are central to our human experience. This program offers practical instructions for helping others in the process of dying and an overview of essential knowledge on death, bardo, and rebirth. This includes self-paced lectures on dying, loss, grief, and illness from Lamas and scholars of Buddhist Studies. Support the Buddhist Studies Institute by donating for these precious teachings. Your contribution, big and small, helps makes in-depth Buddhist training and education more accessible for all. May the teachings spread and flourish!

Buddhism & Sexuality – Self Paced Course

With Dr. Nicole Willock, Julie Regan, Ph.D., Pema Khandro, Lama Willa Miller, Amy Langenberg , Dr. Ann Gleig, Dr. Nida Chenagtsang, Lama Rod Owens, Dr. Jim Hopper, Dr. Elizabeth Call and Damchö Diana Finnegan

Open Dates

Join Pema Khandro and a group of esteemed Buddhist Studies scholars for an exploration of the history of Buddhist Sexualities from celibacy, to sacred sexuality in Buddhist Tantra and a simple approach to embodied integration with nature in Dzogchen. Support the Buddhist Studies Institute by donating for these precious teachings. Your contribution, big and small, helps makes in-depth Buddhist training and education more accessible for all. May the teachings spread and flourish!

Buddhist Ethics – Self Paced Course

With Pema Khandro

Open Dates

This course on Buddhist Ethics goes through the Five Buddhist Precepts. The five precepts form the basis of a Buddhist way of life and the vows that Buddhists Seek to follow. The Five Precepts are a discipline of freedom, honor, and precision that cover the potent themes of life from the extraordinary perspective of non-duality. Support the Buddhist Studies Institute by donating for these precious teachings. Your contribution, big and small, helps makes in-depth Buddhist training and education more accessible for all. May the teachings spread and flourish!

Women in Tantric Buddhism – Self Paced Course

With Holly Gayley, Judith Simmer-Brown, Sarah Jacoby, Amy Langenberg , Damchö Diana Finnegan, Venerable Karma Lekshe Tsomo and Pema Khandro

Open Dates

This is the missing history of women in Tantric Buddhism. This course addresses the fascinating story of nuns, mothers, teachers, consorts, prophets, and disciples. Taught by scholar-practitioners whose groundbreaking research on women and Buddhism has changed the way we think of Buddhist history. This course will address the history of women in Buddhism, the history of yoginis and dakinis in India and Tibet, the stories of important Buddhist women, Buddhist philosophy on gender, sex, and sexuality, and the role of the consort in historical Tibet, and contemporary manifestations and so much more. Support the Buddhist Studies Institute by donating for…

Awakening Innate Wisdom: 21 Semdzin Dzogchen Retreat

With Pema Khandro

August 6 - 10, 2025

In-person in San Diego, and Online This retreat provides a rare opportunity to receive authentic guidance in these essential Dzogchen methods within a supportive environment conducive to deep practice. Through direct instruction, guided sessions, and periods of integration, participants will learn how these seemingly simple yet profound techniques can cut through ordinary conceptual mind to reveal what has been present from the beginning – one’s own intrinsic wisdom. Join us to explore how the Semdzins—practices not of concentration or fabrication, but of discovery—can open doors to experiencing the natural perfection that is our primordial condition, with practical applications that…

Choying Dzod Online: Awakening to the Expanse

With Pema Khandro and Khenpo Yeshi

September 5 - 7, 2025

Join us for the 6th installation of the Choying Dzod, with Dr. Pema Khandro and Khenpo Yeshi Awakening to the Expanse Beyond effort and achievement is the state of natural ease, the basic space of being. How to breakthrough to find this innate expanse is the focus of a profound Buddhist meditation manual known as The Treasury of Basic Space, The Choying Dzod (chos dbyings rin po che’i mdzod). It presents the essence of esoteric Tibetan Buddhism, known as Great Perfection, or Dzogchen (rdzogs chen) in verse form. Venerated as a manifestation of the expanse of reality itself, is the quintessential Dzogchen text…

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2020 Weekly Online Classes with Pema Khandro
Wednesdays at 6pm PT / 9pm ET Timezone Converter
Starts Feb 5th

1st Wed  –  Vajrayana Training
2nd Wed  –  Vajrayana Training
3rd Wed –  Ngakpa Seminary at 6pm and 4th Wed at 6:45pm
4th Wed – Buddhist Philosophy Online – Free Open Teaching

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2020 Year at a Glance

BUDDHIST STUDIES INSTITUTE – ONLINE
March 9 – Free Intro to Empathy Training
March 25 – May 13 – Empathy Training
August 3 – Free Intro to Meditation Instructor Training
Sept 19 – March 27, 2021 – Meditation Instructor Training

YOGIC MEDICINE INSTITUTE – at DAKINI MOUNTAIN & ONLINE
Starts August – Panchakarma Technician Training
Starts August – Ayurvedic Health Counselor Training
Sept Dates TBA – Group Cleansing Retreat

DAKINI MOUNTAIN RETREAT CENTER – TAHOE NATIONAL FOREST
May 29-31 – Retreat with Pema Khandro
May 31 – Dakini Mountain Grand Opening Celebration
July 21-26 – Annual Dzogchen Retreat

KHANDRO LING, VIRGINIA
Sept 22-27 – Buddhist Meditation Retreat
Oct 1-6 – Vajra Sangha Retreat

COMMUNITY PRACTICE
Feb 18 – Dakini Day Chod Practice with Pema Khandro, Virginia
Feb 21 – Losar Vajrakilaya Practice with Janak Kimmel, Penn Valley
Mar 18 – Dakini Day Chod Practice with Pema Khandro, Virginia
Apr 17 – Dakini Day Chod Practice with Pema Khandro, Virginia

Empathy Training – Online
Wednesdays, March 25 – May 13
12pm – 1:15pm PDT (UTC-7) Timezone Converter

Research shows that 8 weeks of empathy training is enough to significantly increase our ability to empathize with others.

A happy life. Loving relationships. Peace with family. Deeper friendships. Real Love. Emotional Maturity. Spiritual Maturity. Socio-Emotional Intelligence. Harmony with Co-workers and so much more. Join three Buddhist teachers for an eight-week course in the core skills you need to live with an open-heart. Designed and led by internationally renowned scholar and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, Pema Khandro. This training is also led by Aruna Rig’dzin Ross and Satya Shiva, Co- Directors of Ngakpa International and the Yogic Medicine Institute.

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Meditation Instructor Training – Online

Sept 19, 2020 – March 27, 2021
Live & Online

Buddhist meditation teachers are people who believe we can change the world and are sharing the tools we need to change it.

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Buddhist Philosophy Online: Excellent Path to Enlightenment

4th Wednesdays of Each Month
Online

Pema Khandro offers an open-free online guided meditation
each month on the fourth Wednesday of the month.
It is approximately half an hour with guided meditation and study of Excellent Path to Enlightenment, the guide to meditation by Longchenpa.

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2020 Certification Trainings
Live and Online – Starts in August

Panchakarma Technician Certification
Ayurvedic Health Counselor Certification

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Meditation Mondays

Online Meditation & Discussion Groups

6:00pm PT with Janak Kimmel

1st Mon – Presence as the Path
2nd Mon – Vajrayana LIVE
3rd Mon – Presence as the Path

Presence as the Path is Open to All Members

Dakini Mountain Grand Opening
Save the Date: May 31, 2020

Retreat with Pema Khandro: May 29-31, 2020
Grand Opening Ceremony and Celebration: May 31st, 2020

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