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| 2019 Year at a Glance
Online Training – Open to Vajra Sangha
April 27 – Skillful Means Training, 9am – 2pmDakini Mountain June 7-9 – Invoking the 100,000 Dakinis June 9 – Dakini Mountain Grand Opening Celebration July 25-28 – Detox & Rejuvenation Retreat Aug 21-25 – Dzogchen Retreat: The Innermost Heart of Freedom Online Training
Sept 14 -Oct 4 – Meditation Instructor TrainingKhandro Ling, Virginia Oct 4-6 – Laughter of the Dakinis Chod
Oct 6-11 – Advanced Chod and Chod dances with Chodpa Kunzang Dorje Oct 10-13 – Vajra Sangha Retreat with Pema Khandro Oct 15-17 – Group Leader Training Online Training
Nov (dates TBA) – Bodhisattva TrainingSan Diego, CA Nov 21 – Public Teaching with Pema Khandro Rinpoche |
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2019 Weekly Online Classes with Pema Khandro 1st Wed – Vajrayana Training 2nd Wed – Dzogchen Day for Members 3rd Wed – Ngakpa Seminary 4th Wed – Open Teaching – Free for the Public 4th Wed – Ngakpa Training Level 1, Open to Vajra Sangha, 6:45pm PT |
 Meditation MondaysWeekly Online Meditation and Discussion Groups 6pm PT / 9pm ET with Janak Kimmel 1st Mon – Presence as the Path 2nd Mon – Vajrayana LIVE 3rd Mon – Presence as the Path 4th Mon – Chod Group Practice |
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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…
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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
This is a monthly class to support your meditation practice and meet the challenge of integrating
