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
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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
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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
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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…
Ngondro presents the core practices of Buddhist psychology, working with core needs in identity, relationality, forgiveness and repair, resources and the sense of empowerment. Join Pema Khandro and the Buddhist Studies Institute for a journey into Ngondro, the core practice of Buddhist tantra. All of the ngondro meditations are highly psychological and psycho-physical. They deal with the fundamental issues of a spiritual life, ones identity, body, relationships, past and future. Intrinsic Wisdom. This module focuses on the key theme of Vajrayana, which is empowerment, to experience the power of the indestructible buddhanature within oneself. It begins with Vajrayogini meditation and the…
About the Advanced Meditation Teacher Training Take meditation teaching to the next level by receiving an Advanced Meditation Teacher Certificate from the Buddhist Studies Institute. There is an urgent need for Meditation teachers who have rigorous, in-depth training beyond Mindfulness techniques. Mindfulness has opened the door to meditation in every possible setting from elementary schools to board rooms. This has left a gap for those interested in Buddhist meditation and Buddhist traditions; students want to learn more and need expert teachers to guide them. This course focuses on the teaching of three core practices to introduce students to the Buddhist…
The Six Yogas Intensive is a six week training which includes in-depth training in the most cherished esoteric practices of Tibetan Buddhism. This course addresses the core issues facing a life, and presents potent methods for integrating spiritual practice into every day life. The system includes meditations for living, dreaming, and dying. It features the practice of Tummo, or Inner Fire meditation, Illusory Body practice, Dream Yoga, Clear Light Meditation, Bardo, the dying practices and Phowa, the transference of consciousness at the time of death. Each practice is part of an overarching system for experiencing liminality, change, and uncertainty in…
ཆོས་དབྱིངས་མཛོད Join us for the 4th installation of the Choying Dzod, with Dr. Pema Khandro and Khenpo Yeshi Unwavering Natural Lucidity 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…
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
Greetings from the Buddhist Studies Institute! I hope this message finds you in good health and spirit.
I am writing to you today to share some exciting news and ask for your support in this year’s fundraising drive. As you may know, Buddhist Studies Institute is a 501c3 nonprofit.
Pema Khandro, the staff, and many volunteers have been working now for over 20 years to create a comprehensive program of education and training for people like you in the rare and precious tradition of the Ngakpa (non-renunciate) Buddhist teachings.
It’s been an enormous success. Thousands of classes, trainings and retreats have been given. Rare Buddhist texts have been translated and practices have been kept alive. Many lives have been touched and a vigorous schedule of teaching and training continues.
Pema Khandro remains a dynamic and courageous Buddhist leader. Her focus is helping busy people in modern life have a profound grasp and practice of the most advanced Buddhist teachings while maintaining family, job, and relationships.
Pema Khandro is dedicated to forging ahead, nurturing gender equality in Buddhism, increasing respect for diversity, supporting the emergence and flourishing of female leaders, students and teachers and other cutting-edge progressions.
Of course, there are challenges we have been victorious with as well.
Running a modern organization requires a complex digital infrastructure including numerous software platforms working together in synchronization. There is no one out-of-the-box system that satisfies the need. The current system is seriously inefficient and requires much extra work and stress on staff to hold it together. This area, behind the scenes, has been greatly limiting what can be accomplished and it has been exhausting the staff.
The exciting news is that due to a great deal of groundwork, a comprehensive digital upgrade is on the horizon. This upgrade will make all aspects of the organization flow much more smoothly, allowing more people to easily benefit from the offerings of the Buddhist Studies Institute and more resources will become available to expand the current services. The expense of this upgrade is significant.
Many other expenses of running the organization are ongoing and only continue because of individual donations.
As often said, the tuition for BSI classes and training do not cover the full cost because of our policy of not turning away those who cannot afford courses. Fundraising is the means to close that gap.
To fund the software upgrade and meet the other ongoing expenses, $50,000 is needed by the end of 2023.
This is where you come in. You are invited to join this mission of making these Buddhist teachings accessible by making a generous donation.
By supporting the general fund, you are enabling the leadership of the Buddhist Studies Institute, Pema Khandro, and the Governing Board to allocate resources where they are most needed and respond to emerging needs and opportunities.
To make a donation, you can click the donate button below or mail your check to the address listed below. No amount is too small or too large. Every gift counts and makes a difference.
As a token of appreciation, you, a cause you hold dear, or your loved ones in need, will be included in the Dedication of Merit that will take place at the annual celebration of Losar (the Tibetan new year) which will happen in February. This dedication will be made by Pema Khandro herself on behalf of all of those who donated. This is a great way to spread the blessings and to practice one of the essential Buddhist teachings – dedicating the merit of your good actions to others.
You can easily include your dedication of merit request with your online donation or include a note naming those to whom you wish the dedication to be made with your mailed donation.
On behalf of Pema Khandro, the staff, the volunteers and all our members, students and friends, I thank you for your consideration, generosity, partnership and friendship. Together, we can make a difference.
Thank you for your support! We are a small grassroots organization, completely dependent upon individual generosity to continue.
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.
Happy Holidays!
Janak Kimmel, Director of Fundraising Ngakpa International Buddhist Studies Institute Dakini Mountain Retreat Center P.O. Box 2396 Nevada City, California 95946 USA