Vajrayana Training with Pema Khandro - New Module - March 1

New Module of Vajrayana Training March 1st

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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

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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!

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

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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!

Buddhist Ethics – Self Paced Course

With Pema Khandro

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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

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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…

Cutting Through Fear: Dzogchen Chod Retreat

With Pema Khandro

May 28 - June 1, 2025

May 28 - June 1 San Diego and Online In a world beset with fear, profound methods are needed to reclaim intrinsic wisdom and awaken innate courage. Join Pema Khandro and the Buddhist Studies institute for a contemplation of fierce compassion through the annual Chod retreat, Troma Nagmo teachings, and an optional five month Comprehensive Chod intensive training to follow. Chod is the profound method of psychological transformation in esoteric Buddhism. Chod means cutting, referring to cutting through the fictions that cause fear, anxiety, and hesitations in one’s life.

Fierce Compassion: Comprehensive Chod Training

With Pema Khandro

June 9 - October 13, 2025

Embark on a transformative five-month journey into the heart of Dzogchen Chod with Tulku Pema Khandro, Ph.D. and the Buddhist Studies Institute. This comprehensive Chod training offers a rare opportunity for an in-depth immersion in the Dzogchen Chod system, Healing Chod, and the Secret Black Dakini Teachings. Take your Chod practice to the next level and cultivate fierce compassion and psychological transformation while studying the Tibetan tradition.

February 27, 2017 by Khandro News

On March 1st, A New Module of Vajrayana Training Online with Pema Khandro will begin.

Vajrayana Training is an online study course focused on understanding the symbols, rituals, philosophy and practices of Tibetan Buddhism.

The power of our current age is an unprecedented access to books, videos, empowerments and meditation retreats from many Eastern traditions. However, this can often lead to a patch work of contradictory experiences that don’t necessarily make sense, nor lead to greater depth. The Vajrayana Training provides a systematic, in-depth look at Buddhist thought and practice in order to place these teachings in their greater context.

In the past such training could only be accessed by learning a foreign language, living in Asia and living in monastery for many years. This has made deeper training accessible to only a few. This training is offered online order to share the wealth of wisdom of Buddhist philosophy and practice with sincere students who have dynamic, full lives. By training from home in an online format, there is a great potential for ongoing study and integration of these teachings in one’s family, work and society.

Learn more about Vajrayana Training here: http://ngakpa.org/vajrayana-training/

Vajrayana Training Format

Once a month online class with Pema Khandro – one hour lecture and thirty minutes question and answer.
Once a month online discussion group led by Pema Khandro’s senior students.
Classes meet ten months a year. In November and December, self-paced practice instruction videos are given.
Vajrayana Students may apply by signing up for an interview with Pema Khandro Rinpoche by skype or phone. Yearly interviews are repeated every summer.
Vajrayana Training is offered in a series of six modules. Module Six begins March 1st 2017.
The training is geared towards an intermediate audience who has some familiarity with Buddhist thought. Beginners are also welcome to join in, they are invited to utilize one of the teaching assistant for any questions that may arise.
The classes are taught by Pema Khandro Rinpoche – you can read her full biography here http://www.pemakhandro.org/biography/

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