The Dream is within Reach!

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…

21 Taras Pema Khandro Birthday Fundraiser

With Pema Khandro

December 4, 2024

Join us for the 21 Taras. The twenty-one taras is a sublime chanting meditation and praise of the forms of the female Bodhisattva Tara, each one a contemplation of all the forms of compassion ranging from gentle to fierce. This event explores the outer, inner and secret meaning of the twenty-one taras. This will be a joyous fundraiser in honor of our beloved Pema Khandro Rinpoche’s birthday. Wednesday, December 4th 6 pm pt | 9 pm et

December 30, 2018 by pemacom

The Dream of Dakini Mountain is within reach. Help us push the donation thermometer up to $80,000 – We need only $2,873 to reach the next milestone!

We have received $77,127 in donations.
And we have a pledge for $50,000 more to come in. Our goal is 150k.
This means we only need $22,873 to meet the goal!

Dakini Mountain will be our future headquarters and the site where we can offer life-changing retreats. It is more than just a place, it is also a symbol – of the wisdom innate to every person and the healing power of being in nature.

We receive letters every day talking about the positive impact that Pema Khandro Rinpoche has had in your life. Dakini Mountain will be a base for her teachings, offering a sustainable way to limit the travel, expenses, and effort and maximize her time with us during her visits. Dakini Mountain is Pema Khandro Rinpoche’s dream and she can’t make it happen alone. She needs our help!

Make your donation today for a tax-deductible donation for 2018. Ngakpa International is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, dedicated to sharing the Buddhist Yogi’s wisdom for deep spiritual training balanced with work and family life. Our goal is to share the highest resources for peace, inspiration, empowerment, and health. We are volunteer run and sustained by individual donations. This year our year-end fundraiser is focused on Dakini Mountain, our new headquarters which will be just outside Lake Tahoe, in Northern California.

Donate and Learn More at:
https://www.gofundme.com/dakini-mountain-fundraiser

Find out more and read about Dakini Mountain at:
www.DakiniMountain.org

Look at all we accomplished in 2018

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