The Power of Being Good

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…

21 Taras Pema Khandro Birthday Fundraiser

With Pema Khandro

December 4, 2024

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

November 5, 2021 by BuddhistYogis

Dear Friends and Members,

Last night, my partner, Natana and I spent some time with Anne, a young woman who is Natana’s niece. Anne is attending college in the Boston area, in a master’s program to be a school guidance counselor.

I was deeply impressed with Anne. She was completely present with us, authentic, kind, humbly confident and she had learned a great deal about trauma, racism, microaggressions and how to assist people in healing and learning better ways of living. This was much more than intellectual learning for Anne as it was for me when I encountered these topics in Pema Khandro’s classes.

Anne had struggled in the growing up process like many of us do, surrounded by dysfunction and the example of a “me, first” society. But she has transformed herself and learned how to embody compassion for others and for herself. To me, Anne is the kind of leader that makes such an important difference in our world.

I believe in the great power of being good – the power that comes when we bring our good intentions to reality in our bodies, emotions, and actions. When I meet people who live this way, I feel inspired. I want to become better – more kind, more serviceful, more loving. That’s the power of being good. It spreads.

Being good means having a strong support system for our good intentions. Buddhism and Pema Khandro’s teachings provide this.

Pema Khandro’s teachings are traditional Buddhism in the post-modern context.

I hope you will take full advantage of what Pema Khandro and the Buddhist Studies Institute has to offer.

And I invite you to help keep this work vital by caring for the physical center and home of Pema Khandro’s work, Dakini Mountain, the new Buddhist retreat center in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Northern California.

As we enter the final months of 2021, critical funds are needed to complete the $50,000 Dakini Mountain Fundraising goal to fund critical maintenance, property tax and insurance. Thanks to your generosity, $25,000 has already been raised. $25,000 more will complete the goal to keep Dakini Mountain alive and moving forward.

Any donation you can make, large or small, makes a difference.

Please donate now to support Dakini Mountain alive and the work of Pema Khandro. Thank you!

Also, long term financial support is needed now for the

Dakini Mountain loan refinancing. If you don’t have funds to donate now, but you do have the ability to be a loan guarantor or participate in estate planning or legacy giving, there are many ways you could help.

Refinancing to reduce the costs of Dakini Mountain is a top priority for this year, but one to three more loan guarantors are needed. For more information on becoming a guarantor or legacy giving, please reply to this email.

Gifts can also be made by check, payable to Ngakpa International, and mailed to Dakini Mountain, P.O. Box 2396, Nevada City, California 95959, USA.

Ngakpa International is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit EIN 68-0529687 and all gifts are tax deductible as allowed by law.

For more information about Dakini Mountain, visit www.DakiniMountain.org

Wishing you joy and happiness,

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Janak

Director of Fundraising

Ngakpa International

Buddhist Studies Institute

Dakini Mountain Retreat Center

P.O. Box 2396

Nevada City, California 95946

USA

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