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Abiding in Unceasing Clarity

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
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Join Pema Khandro this Sunday in San Diego
Abiding in Unceasing Clarity – The Kunzang Monlam Retreat

At times of high emotion, at the bedside of someone dying, during Solstices, Eclipses, and Earthquakes – Tibetan Buddhists recite the prayer, the Kunzang Monlam to guide all who hear it to liberating awareness. This one-day urban retreat explores this prayer and its extraordinary view of the mind and emotions from the perspective of The Great Perfection (Dzogchen). It explores how our awareness can become distorted by delusions, how to dispel the darkness and return to one’s intrinsic buddha nature.

Special Thanks!
We did it!
The rise of Dakini Mountain is here!

This is only possible through the support of many friends:
Special Thanks to Gyaldak Rinpoche for obstacle-removing rituals, and thanks to Lobsang for sponsoring these practices.
Special Thanks to all those who offered obstacle-removing practices for Dakini Mountain: Namkhai, Tenzin, Ali, Satya, Tashi, Ngawang, Nyima, Khalden, Kunzang, Ganga, Janak, Mikyo, Laura, Tsal’gyur, Fereshteh, Yene, Dedzin, Dawa, Aruna, and Kundini.
Thanks to all who donated to our fundraiser: Richard, Laura, Tashi, Janak, Max, Mary Kay, Khalden, Kerryn, Sheila, Ngawang, Z, Diedra, Trusha, Wendy, Darius, Carol, Abraham, Dee, Malcolm, Satya, Yene, Steve, Elena, Conrad, Valerie, Harlem, Malika, Aruna, Zat, Ahlea, De’Dzin, Shivani, Christopher, Jesse, Ganga, Kabir, Penelope, Kaia, James, Andrew, R. David, Liz, Lou, Shirley, Serge, Ian, Kundini, Ali, Morgane, Cindy, Marianne, Tsal’gyur, Aimee, Malika, Daniel, Bernie, Dagme, Sarah, Richard, Jack, Laurie, Keith, Jeffrey, Kristine, Susan, Jerry, Owen, Rindzin, Anthony, Qin, Brenda & Virgil, Linda, Pualani, Gloria, Richard, Clare, Thokmey, Annie, Deshe, James, Rosanne, Paul, Evangeline, Tim, Mikyo, Karen, Lee, Lise, Preston, Fereshteh, Maria, Devin, Dylan, Denise, Kamali, Yeshe, Marie, Carlos, Dana, Marv, Namtak, John, Robert, Abra, Robin, Mark, Nette, Tazuko, Zoe, Willow, Kellie, Karen, Laura and Katya.

Also, it would not have been possible without our friends who offered their support, extended kindness, offered their time, services, loans, advice:At the Berkeley Center – Mark, Khalden, Tsal’gyur, Darius, Monica Deka, Allison Pretto, Matthew Siegel, Dev.

For Dakini Mountain – Mark, Ross Collins, Neil Kirpalani, Lobsang, Corrina Hansen, Patricia Krowel, Lars and Birken.
Our Dakini Mountain Committee – Ngawang, Satya, Aruna, Zannette, Khalden.
The Residents of the Berkeley Gompa who supported and helped the transition – Namtak, Sara, Nigel, Lorrie, Darius, and Tsal’gyur.
Our 2018 Leadership Team who steadied our ship during the process – Aruna, Satya, Tsal’gyur, De’dzin, and Mikyo.
Our new 2019 Leadership Team – Aruna, Satya, Tsal’gyur, Janak and Kundini.

And the Vajra Sangha who are the heart of our community – Ali, Aruna, Dawa, De’dzin, Dri’med, Fa Jun, Ganga, Janak, Khalden, Kundini, Kunzang, Lobsang, Malika, Mikyo, Namgyal, Namkai, Namtak, Ngawang, Norbu, Osel, Thokmey, Pualani, Rigpa, Rindzin, Satya, Serge, Tashi, Trogyal, Trusha, Tsal’gyur, Yene, Zat.

The greatest thanks goes to Aruna, one of our Directors of Ngakpa International and our CFO. For her, this was an effort made every day without reprieve for six months straight of high pressure, high stakes negotiations, decisions, legal research and consulting with all involved. I got used to speaking with her and making excruciating decisions on almost a daily basis, but she had many more hours, every day, of countless meetings, letters and legal processes with everyone else involved. I feel so proud that a woman of such extraordinary leadership, determination, and skill guided us through this process. Whatever she didn’t know how to do (like engineer solar panels!), she learned, doing whatever was needed to make it happen. Thank you, Aruna!

Did you miss your chance to donate? We still need your help. You can donate right now here! https://www.gofundme.com/dakini-mountain-fundraiser

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