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!
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…
We invite you to join us for Finding Wisdom Awareness, an upcoming live online immersion exploring the Dzogchen view of Buddha nature through the profound philosophical and contemplative language of Longchenpa. Longchenpa was the great forefather and synthesizer of the Dzogchen teachings. He lived in the fourteenth century and his writings became the basis for the flourishing of the Dzochen tradition thereafter.
This weekend teaching (April 17–19) continues our close study of the Treasury of Words and Meanings, focusing on how awareness itself—primordial, luminous, and already present—becomes obscured, and how it may be recognized directly. It address the view of buddhanature as uniquely spoken through the Dzogchen view of a world made of primordial knowing.
Rather than approaching these teachings as abstract philosophy, this course offers a rare opportunity to engage them as a living system of insight: a way of understanding mind, perception, and reality at their root.
You will be guided through key frameworks within Dzogchen, including:
The nature of the ground (gzhi)
The relationship between primordial knowing and lived experience
Commonalities between samsara and nirvana
Was of understanding emptiness that are not nihilistic but profoundly positive and present
How buddha-nature abides and can be discovered
What buddha-nature is and its distinctive form in Dzochen
Buddha-nature as it is discoverable through the natural world
Natural liberation and innate wisdom
The special metaphors, similies and other poetic pathways to recognizing the nature of mind
The relationship between Longchenpa’s works and the seventeen tantras
The difference between recognition and non-recognition
Together, these teachings present one of the most refined accounts of mind and reality within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Join three Dzogchen scholars on exploring the Treasury of Words and Meanings along with a vibrant community online.
Faculty
Guided by: David Germano, Ph.D., Khenpo Yeshi Rinpoche, and Tulku Pema Khandro, Ph.D. Each brings a distinct integration of lineage training, scholarship, and contemplative depth—offering a rare convergence of academic precision and direct experiential guidance.
Event Details
April 17–19, 2026
Live Online (recordings included with 1-year access)
Schedule
9am–12pm PST
12–3pm EST
5–8pm London
This is a course for those who want to understand—not conceptually alone, but structurally and experientially—how awareness functions, how confusion arises, and how recognition becomes possible.
Register now to join live or receive the recordings. If you’re on the threshold of engaging Dzogchen more deeply, this is an excellent place to step in.