Happy Losar – Tibetan New Year!

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

February 26, 2020 by pemacom

Dear Friends,

I am overjoyed to wish you a Happy Tibetan New Year!
The lunar new year begins Monday February 24th, 2020, the year of the Iron Rat!
May your life be renewed and may your health strong.
May everyone live by love and give each other freedom from fear.
May we set healthy boundaries so the needs of ourselves and others can all be met.
May we apply empathy to overcome false divisions, and to heal from the past.
May we be wise and strategic in our compassionate action.
May women everywhere be respected and believed.
May the dignity of all beings be protected.
May we find inner freedom and a sense of ultimate empowerment.
May all calamities be averted and the environment protected.
May we meet at Dakini Mountain.

Losar Tashi Delek!
Happy Lunar New Year!

Yours always,

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2020 Weekly Online Classes with Pema Khandro
Wednesdays at 6pm PT / 9pm ET Timezone Converter
Starts Feb 5th

1st Wed  –  Vajrayana Training
2nd Wed  –  Vajrayana Training
3rd Wed –  Ngakpa Training at 6pm and 4th Wed at 6:45pm
4th Wed – Buddhist Philosophy Online – Free Open Teaching

2020 Year at a Glance

BUDDHIST STUDIES INSTITUTE – ONLINE
March 9 – Free Intro to Empathy Training
March 25 – May 13 – Empathy Training
August 3 – Free Intro to Meditation Instructor Training
Sept 19 – March 27, 2021 – Meditation Instructor Training

YOGIC MEDICINE INSTITUTE – at DAKINI MOUNTAIN & ONLINE
Starts August – Panchakarma Technician Training
Starts August – Ayurvedic Health Counselor Training
Sept Dates TBA – Group Cleansing Retreat

DAKINI MOUNTAIN RETREAT CENTER – TAHOE NATIONAL FOREST
May 29-31 – Retreat with Pema Khandro
May 31 – Dakini Mountain Grand Opening Celebration
July 21-26 – Annual Dzogchen Retreat

KHANDRO LING, VIRGINIA
Sept 22-27 – Buddhist Meditation Retreat
Oct 1-6 – Vajra Sangha Retreat

COMMUNITY PRACTICE
Mar 18 – Dakini Day Chod Practice with Pema Khandro, Virginia
Apr 17 – Dakini Day Chod Practice with Pema Khandro, Virginia

Empathy Training – Online
Wednesdays, March 25 – May 13
12pm – 1:15pm PDT (UTC-7) Timezone Converter

Research shows that 8 weeks of empathy training is enough to significantly increase our ability to empathize with others.

A happy life. Loving relationships. Peace with family. Deeper friendships. Real Love. Emotional Maturity. Spiritual Maturity. Socio-Emotional Intelligence. Harmony with Co-workers and so much more. Join three Buddhist teachers for an eight-week course in the core skills you need to live with an open-heart. Designed and led by internationally renowned scholar and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, Pema Khandro. This training is also led by Aruna Rig’dzin Ross and Satya Shiva, Co- Directors of Ngakpa International and the Yogic Medicine Institute.

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Meditation Instructor Training – Online

Sept 19, 2020 – March 27, 2021
Live & Online

Buddhist meditation teachers are people who believe we can change the world and are sharing the tools we need to change it.

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Buddhist Philosophy Online: Excellent Path to Enlightenment

4th Wednesdays of Each Month
Online

Pema Khandro offers an open-free online guided meditation
each month on the fourth Wednesday of the month.
It is approximately half an hour with guided meditation and study of Excellent Path to Enlightenment, the guide to meditation by Longchenpa.

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2020 Certification Trainings
Live and Online – Starts in August

Panchakarma Technician Certification
Ayurvedic Health Counselor Certification

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Meditation Mondays

Online Meditation & Discussion Groups

6:00pm PT with Janak Kimmel

1st Mon – Presence as the Path
2nd Mon – Vajrayana LIVE
3rd Mon – Presence as the Path

Presence as the Path is Open to All Members

Dakini Mountain Grand Opening
Save the Date: May 31, 2020

Retreat with Pema Khandro: May 29-31, 2020
Grand Opening Ceremony and Celebration: May 31st, 2020

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