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…
21 Day Meditation Marathon January 1st – 21st, 2025 8 am pst The New Year Meditation Marathon is led by a diverse faculty of Buddhist Studies Institute certified meditation instructors who facilitate Tibetan Zhine (Calm Abiding) meditation followed by a reading and contemplation of one of the Five Buddhist Precepts. Sign Up Now
Build your life on a solid foundation. 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. This module focuses on the purification of speech as the basis for Buddhist tantric practice. It then focuses on generating the refuge field. This is a practice of getting resourced, learning one’s own lineage and understanding the field of support for one’s spiritual journey. This section concludes with a…
Meditation Teacher Training 2025 For Teachers Beholding a Diverse Beautiful World The Meditation Teacher Training supplies the fundamental knowledge and experience necessary to lead meditation classes and one-day meditation intensives. People all over the world have turned to Buddhist meditation as a source of wisdom. Meditation offers a powerful method to access a sense of spaciousness, peace and authentic presence. From a Buddhist point of view, when we know how to meditate, we learn how to work with mind and emotions. We have a practice for unraveling conditioned scripts and unconscious habits. Meditation is a pathway to discovering human…
30 Minutes Meditation + 15 Minutes Optional Group Discussion
Start the year with a transformative journey of self-discovery through the meditation. Our New Year Meditation Marathon offers daily 30 minute guided sessions (8-8:30am PT) of Tibetan Zhine (Calm Abiding) meditation, along with reflections on the Five Buddhist Precepts, helping you cultivate peace, clarity, and compassion. Optional community discussion 8:30-8:45am PT.
The Meditation Marathon is led by certified instructors from the Buddhist Studies Institute. Learn more about becoming a certified meditation instructor with our 2025 Meditation Teacher Training
Become a certified meditation teacher in 2025 with the Buddhist Studies Institute’s robust 200-hour program. This self-paced course combines live classes, mentoring, and practicums, delving into traditional meditation, Buddhist philosophy, and ethics. Designed to address the complexities of modern life, it empowers teachers to guide diverse communities with wisdom, integrity, and compassion. Join a transformative journey led by Pema Khandro to learn the art of meditation instruction and bring peace to a turbulent world.
We are grateful for donations to support the End of Year 2024 Buddhist Studies Institute Fundraising drive. We are a grassroots organization and all of our funding is based on individual donations.
We hope you will remember us in your end of year giving and of course, if you can’t, then we also enjoy the continual support of volunteers, good will and prayers, the positive energy that has keeps us going! So please give however you can.
We have an exciting new year of programs and look forward to connecting with each other each other again and again. 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.
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Thank you for your ongoing support and we look forward to seeing you for a full schedule of classes in 2025!