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!
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…
Part 1 of The Yoginis Teachings – Online with Pema Khandro
Weekend Retreat 9am-1pm Sat–Sun September 12–13, 2026
4 Monday Evenings 5-6:30pm PT Sept 14, 21, 28, and Oct 5
Dear Dharma Friends,
For more than a thousand years, White Tara has been beloved across the Himalayas. Her mantra is recited in monasteries and homes from Tibet to Bhutan. Her image, seated in the diamond posture with seven eyes of wisdom looking in all directions, is one of the most enduring representations of the sacred feminine in the entire Buddhist tradition.
This fall, I am offering a weekend retreat with the transmission of the White Tara practice from the Longchen Nyingthig lineage, followed by four Monday evening sessions on the teachings of the great women of Indian Buddhism. It is the opening program of The Yoginī’s Teachings, a fall program theme on the three forms of the sacred feminine and the most important teachings given by yoginīs and dakinis for twenty five hundred years of the tradition.
I have been studying the women of Tibetan Buddhism for most of my life. First as a Buddhist yoginī myself, then as a doctoral researcher, as a professor who teaches this history, and as someone who carries the lineage of a Tibetan yoginī who taught a hundred years ago.
White Tara is where I want to begin. She is peaceful. She is accessible. Her practice is for long life and healing and the wisdom that sustains all other practice. And her origin story carries one of the most important theological statements in the entire Great Vehicle: her vow, made in a previous life as Princess Wisdom Moon, to always take rebirth in a woman’s body until all beings are freed. When a monk told her she should pray to be reborn as a man to make faster progress, she refused. She chose femaleness as the vehicle of enlightenment rather than the obstacle to it.
The weekend is where we receive her transmission and enter her practice. The four Monday evenings following take us into the sutra-level foundations of the Yoginī’s teachings: the ancestral sangha of Buddhist women, Prajñāpāramitā as the Mother of All Buddhas, the great women teachers of the Great Vehicle (Mahayana) sutras, and closing with the Tara family as the full spectrum of the sacred feminine.
If the mother buddha has been calling you, I hope you will come.
THE YOGINIS SERIES – FALL 2026 White Tara Retreat & Program The Peaceful Sacred Feminine and the Women of the Great Vehicle Weekend Retreat: Saturday–Sunday, September 12–13, 2026 Monday Evening Sessions: September 14, 21, 28, October 5 with Tulku Pema Khandro
Vajrayogini Empowerment, Retreat & Program The Fierce Joyful Ḍākinī and the Yoginīs of Tibet Weekend Empowerment Retreat: Saturday–Sunday, October 10–11, 2026 Monday Evening Sessions: October 12, 19, 26, November 2 Vajrayogini Empowerment with Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche and Teachings with Tulku Pema Khandro
The Lion-Faced Ḍākinī Retreat and Program The Wrathful Sacred Feminine and the Great Perfection Weekend Transmission and Retreat: Saturday–Sunday, November 7–8, 2026 Monday Evening Sessions: November 9, 16, 23, 30 with Tulku Pema Khandro
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