Pema Khandro’s Birthday

Upcoming Events

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

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!

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

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!

Buddhist Ethics – Self Paced Course

With Pema Khandro

Open Dates

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

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…

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.

Breakthrough Retreat (Tekchod)

With Pema Khandro

June 27 - 29, 2025

Breakthrough Retreat Online with Pema Khandro June 27-29. 9am-12 pst, each day. In the protected space of retreat, we will investigate the essence of Breakthrough—learning to allow thoughts and emotions to self-liberate without suppression or engagement, discovering the spaciousness that remains when we release our habitual grasping. This retreat will be led online by Dzogchen teacher and scholar, Pema Khandro. Each day will include study and practice of breakthrough practice, Trekchö (ཁྲེགས་ཆོད་, sometimes transliterated as “tekcho”), from the Heart Essence of the Dakinis

December 7, 2017 by pemacom

Dear Buddhist Yogis,

This coming weekend, it is our honor to host His Eminence Gyaldak Rinpoche at our Berkeley Meditation Center. He will be offering White Tara Blessing and Tsok in celebration of Pema Khandro Rinpoche’s birthday. You are cordially invited!

White Tara Blessing & Tsok
with Gyaldak Rinpoche

Pema Khandro’s Birthday Celebration
Saturday, December 9th, 6:30pm

MahaSiddha Center
2328 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94703

Pema Khandro’s Birthday Wish:

Support Ngakpa International’s Mission

Pema Khandro Rinpoche has continued to offer us extraordinary access to in-depth training and education in esoteric Buddhist teachings of Vajrayana and Dzogchen.

This has been possible due to the massive effort, ceaseless teaching and tireless generosity of our beloved teacher, Pema Khandro Rinpoche.

But she cannot do this alone – your help is needed to make the continuation of this mission possible.

CULTIVATE GREAT ACTS OF GENEROSITY
“We can work together to create the world we want to live in through education, kindness and generosity.” ~ Pema Khandro

Ngakpa Intl is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. All donations are Tax Deductible. Federal Tax Id# 68-0529687.

Special Gifts for You

The following three very large thangka prints from Tibet were hand selected by Pema Khandro Rinpoche during the Monkey Year Pilgrimage, carried back for her personal collection, and have been on display within the Meditation Hall at Khandro Ling Center in Virginia ever since.

The Monkey Year is significant because it is considered the Year of Padmasambhava’s birthday, the most auspicious year for Tantric Buddhism, which cycles around only every 60 years.

It is a print in the style available in Tibet, with a beautifully embroidered brocade which matches the collection in the Khandro Ling Meditation Hall. The entire dimensions are 67″ x 43″ while the print dimensions are 33″ x 22″. These three special thangkas are first-come-first-serve to those
who donate $4,000.

8 Forms of Padmasabhava

Golden Padmasambhava

Gift for All Donors
Guided Meditation Video from Pema Khandro

As an additional Special Thanks,
ALL year-end donors will receive a Free Guided Meditation Video
from Pema Khandro Rinpoche.
Donate Now to receive your Free Gift!

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