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!
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!
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!
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…
Join us for the 21 Taras. The twenty-one taras is a sublime chanting meditation and praise of the forms of the female Bodhisattva Tara, each one a contemplation of all the forms of compassion ranging from gentle to fierce. This event explores the outer, inner and secret meaning of the twenty-one taras. This will be a joyous fundraiser in honor of our beloved Pema Khandro Rinpoche’s birthday. Wednesday, December 4th 6 pm pt | 9 pm et
Join Pema Khandro for The Dalai Lama Global Vision Summit
March 16-20, 2023
Presented by Lion’s Roar and Tibet House US, with the express support of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, you can look forward to 5 inspirational days of free video sessions from 20 speakers exploring how we can navigate our increasingly uncertain world with compassion, goodness, and virtue.
Join tens of thousands of participants from all over the world and your host Dr. Jan Willis to unpack the essential teachings and priorities of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, as we explore how to:
Cultivate goodness in ourselves and others.
Use the power of the fundamental human quality of compassion to experience inner happiness and create a more harmonious and just society
Embrace the Dalai Lama’s call for “a new global ethics of universal responsibility”
Use the personal insights gained through meditation to see the world more clearly and unlock a path toward societal change
Apply key Buddhist teachings on wisdom to the challenges faced by humanity
Sign up now to join us for this momentous global summit and gain free access to 20 inspiring sessions and 18 guided meditation practices from a remarkable gathering of presenters, including:
Daniel Goleman, Psychologist and bestselling author
Dr. Joe Loizzo, Founder and Academic Director, Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science
Thupten Jinpa, President, Compassion Institute
Lisa Miller, Ph.D., New York Times bestselling author of The Awakened Brain, and founder of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute
Pamela Ayo Yetunde, Co-Founder, Buddhist Justice Reporter, and author
Robert Thurman, President, Tibet House US
Dr. Vandana Shiva, Physicist
Dr. Pema Khandro, Buddhist Teacher and Scholar
and many more.
Reserve your spot and join us online from March 16-20.
PS. Sign up today and get a special gift: a downloadable selection of teachings from Lion’s Roar’s exclusive publication TheVision of the Dalai Lama: Wisdom for a Compassionate World.