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A New Years Gift of Dharma for All

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!
Register Now

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!
Register Now

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!
Register Now

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…
Register Now

Love as a Path to Liberation

With Holly Gayley, Sarah Jacoby and Pema Khandro

February 21 - 23, 2025
Love as a Path to Liberation
Register now

Losar 2025

With Pema Khandro

March 5, 2025
All are welcome to join Pema Khandro for our annual Tibetan Lunar New Year Celebration This is a free online program; open to the public. Vajrakilaya Dances Performed Losar Address with Pema Khandro Celebration of 21-Day Meditation Marathoners Dedications of Merit Year of the Wood Snake Begins! Donate below any amount to celebrate The Buddhist Studies Institute’s mission to help the Buddhist Teachings flourish.
Register now

Choying Dzod 5: Unwavering Awareness

With Pema Khandro and Khenpo Yeshi

March 21 - 23, 2025
Beyond effort and achievement is the state of natural ease, the basic space of being. How to breakthrough to find this innate expanse is the focus of a profound Buddhist meditation manual known as The Treasury of Basic Space, The Choying Dzod (chos dbyings rin po che’i mdzod). It presents the essence of esoteric Tibetan Buddhism, known as Great Perfection, or Dzogchen (rdzogs chen) in verse form. Venerated as a manifestation of the expanse of reality itself,  is the quintessential Dzogchen text by the fourteenth century master, Longchenpa.  It refers to the expanse of reality and pure experience of meaningfulness as the revelation…
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Buddhist Studies Institute

A New Years Gift of Dharma for All

Dear Friends,

As we step into a new year, it’s a time for reflection and renewal—a moment to align our intentions with compassion and wisdom. At the Buddhist Studies Institute, we are inspired by the extraordinary legacy of teachings from Pema Khandro and Tibetan Buddhism, and the profound transformation they bring to people’s lives.

More people than ever are seeking the tools of insight, mindfulness, and resilience to navigate the challenges of life. Some come in search of solace; others, in search of profound wisdom. Regardless of their journey, we are here to meet them with open hearts and the life-changing teachings of the Dharma.

This year, through your generous support, we’ve:

  • Provided scholarships and reduced-cost access to teachings, retreats, and courses for students in financial need.

  • Offered online programs that reached thousands globally, connecting seekers with meditation, mindfulness, and Buddhist philosophy.

  • Continued our commitment to preserving and sharing the precious lineage teachings of Tibetan Buddhism through rigorous scholarship and heartfelt practice.

Your generosity is the bridge that allows these offerings to flourish. Without the support of our community, our ability to provide accessible teachings would not be possible.

As we approach the year’s end, we invite you to partner with us in continuing this vital work. Your tax-deductible donation ensures that anyone—regardless of financial ability—can find refuge and guidance through these transformative teachings.

If these teachings have touched your life, you know the immeasurable value they hold. Let’s make 2025 a year of expanded access to wisdom, compassion, and inner peace for all.


We’ve raised $6,000 so far, please help us reach our $25,000 goal. Click the button below to make your New Year’s gift today.

“Thank you for making these teachings available. They’ve brought light into my darkest days.”
— Sarah F., North Carolina

“Pema Khandro’s teachings have changed my life. The kindness and clarity of this community are a gift to the world.”
— Kay C., Los Angeles

Thank you for your kindness, your practice, and your support. Together, we can bring the Dharma to more people in 2025.

With deep gratitude,
The Team at Buddhist Studies Institute

*Buddhist Studies Institute is a project of Ngakpa International, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit EIN 68-0529687 and all gifts are tax-deductible as allowed by law.

Winter Schedule of Events

1st & 2nd Wednesdays
Vajrayana Training

**VT moved to Jan 8 + 15 due to Holiday Season

3rd Wednesdays
Ngakpa Training

**NT moved to Jan 22 due to Holiday Season

Jan 1 – 21
New Year Meditation Marathon

Jan 27 – Apr 8
Ngondro Module 1: Field of Buddhas

Feb 10 – Aug 4
Meditation Teacher Training

Feb 21 – 23
Love as a Path to Liberation

March 5
Losar Celebration: Year of the Wood Snake

*All Times noted in Pacific Time (PT)
Check your Timezone


Thriving Together

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!
Register Now

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!
Register Now

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!
Register Now

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…
Register Now

Love as a Path to Liberation

With Holly Gayley, Sarah Jacoby and Pema Khandro

February 21 - 23, 2025
Love as a Path to Liberation
Register now

Losar 2025

With Pema Khandro

March 5, 2025
All are welcome to join Pema Khandro for our annual Tibetan Lunar New Year Celebration This is a free online program; open to the public. Vajrakilaya Dances Performed Losar Address with Pema Khandro Celebration of 21-Day Meditation Marathoners Dedications of Merit Year of the Wood Snake Begins! Donate below any amount to celebrate The Buddhist Studies Institute’s mission to help the Buddhist Teachings flourish.
Register now

Choying Dzod 5: Unwavering Awareness

With Pema Khandro and Khenpo Yeshi

March 21 - 23, 2025
Beyond effort and achievement is the state of natural ease, the basic space of being. How to breakthrough to find this innate expanse is the focus of a profound Buddhist meditation manual known as The Treasury of Basic Space, The Choying Dzod (chos dbyings rin po che’i mdzod). It presents the essence of esoteric Tibetan Buddhism, known as Great Perfection, or Dzogchen (rdzogs chen) in verse form. Venerated as a manifestation of the expanse of reality itself,  is the quintessential Dzogchen text by the fourteenth century master, Longchenpa.  It refers to the expanse of reality and pure experience of meaningfulness as the revelation…
Register now

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Buddhist Studies Institute

Thriving Together Through Your Generosity

Thanks to your support, our community continues to grow, offering the profound Longchen Nyingthig teachings from Khandro-La, Bhutan Pilgrimage, The Six Yogas Online and so much more. We’ve expanded our reach with online programs across time zones, enhanced accessibility through recordings, and nurtured a loving sangha united by integrity and deep practice.


This year, we served 100+ members, offering 131 programs, retreats, and trainings. Looking ahead, we’re launching a Chaplaincy Program, Advanced Meditation Instructor Training, and hosting esteemed teachers for shedra-level teachings, retreats, and empowerments.

Help Us Meet the Challenge
Your contributions ensure stability and support for our growing programs. Together, we cultivate resilience and compassion on the path of the Awakened Mind.

Thank you for your generosity, vision, and love. Let’s rise to meet this moment with strength and heart.

Buddhist Studies Institute is a project of Ngakpa International, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit EIN 68-0529687 and all gifts are tax-deductible as allowed by law.

Take Courses by Donation this Holiday Season

This holiday season, the Buddhist Studies Institute invites you to access transformative teachings by donation. For a limited time, explore select courses on meditation, Buddhist philosophy, and ethics—designed to support your spiritual growth and bring clarity and peace to your life.

Deepen your understanding, cultivate inner peace, and align with the wisdom of Buddhist teachings. Contribute what you can and join our community on this path of transformation.

Don’t miss this opportunity to invest in your spiritual journey. Click below to begin today.




Winter Schedule of Events

1st & 2nd Wednesdays
Vajrayana Training

**VT moved to Jan 8 + 15 due to Holiday Season

3rd Wednesdays
Ngakpa Training

**NT moved to Jan 22 due to Holiday Season

Jan 1 – 21
New Year Meditation Marathon

Jan 27 – Apr 8
Ngondro Module 1: Field of Buddhas

Feb 10 – Aug 4
Meditation Teacher Training

Feb 21 – 23
Love as a Path to Liberation

*All Times noted in Pacific Time (PT)
Check your Timezone


Peace and Prosperity

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!
Register Now

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!
Register Now

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!
Register Now

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…
Register Now

Love as a Path to Liberation

With Holly Gayley, Sarah Jacoby and Pema Khandro

February 21 - 23, 2025
Love as a Path to Liberation
Register now

Losar 2025

With Pema Khandro

March 5, 2025
All are welcome to join Pema Khandro for our annual Tibetan Lunar New Year Celebration This is a free online program; open to the public. Vajrakilaya Dances Performed Losar Address with Pema Khandro Celebration of 21-Day Meditation Marathoners Dedications of Merit Year of the Wood Snake Begins! Donate below any amount to celebrate The Buddhist Studies Institute’s mission to help the Buddhist Teachings flourish.
Register now

Choying Dzod 5: Unwavering Awareness

With Pema Khandro and Khenpo Yeshi

March 21 - 23, 2025
Beyond effort and achievement is the state of natural ease, the basic space of being. How to breakthrough to find this innate expanse is the focus of a profound Buddhist meditation manual known as The Treasury of Basic Space, The Choying Dzod (chos dbyings rin po che’i mdzod). It presents the essence of esoteric Tibetan Buddhism, known as Great Perfection, or Dzogchen (rdzogs chen) in verse form. Venerated as a manifestation of the expanse of reality itself,  is the quintessential Dzogchen text by the fourteenth century master, Longchenpa.  It refers to the expanse of reality and pure experience of meaningfulness as the revelation…
Register now

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Buddhist Studies Institute

Wishing you Peace, Health and Prosperity this Holiday Season and in the New Year!

~ Best Wishes from Pema Khandro and the Buddhist Studies Institute

Meditation Teacher Training

200 Hour Certification

February 10 – August 4, 2025

Are you ready to embark on a journey that will transform your life and the lives of those around you? The Buddhist Studies Institute’s 200-hour Meditation Teacher Training is more than just a course—it’s an opportunity to deeply connect with your inner wisdom and step into the role of a guide, helping others find peace, clarity, and balance in today’s challenging world.

This comprehensive program combines live classes, mentoring, and practical experience, offering you an in-depth exploration of traditional meditation practices, Buddhist philosophy, and ethical teachings. It’s designed not only to cultivate your own meditation practice but also to equip you with the skills, compassion, and integrity needed to lead others on their path to healing and transformation.

Under the guidance of Pema Khandro, you will learn to teach meditation in a way that addresses the unique needs of modern life, bringing lasting peace and profound change to individuals and communities. This training is for those who feel called to make a meaningful impact and help others cultivate inner peace in a world that needs it now more than ever.

If you’re ready to transform your own life and inspire lasting change in others, we invite you to join us in this powerful journey.

A New Dawn

Embrace Transformation This Holiday Season

As we move past the solstice and into the holiday season, it’s the perfect time for reflection and transformation. At the Buddhist Studies Institute, we help individuals tap into their inner potential and create lasting change in their lives and communities.

This holiday season, we invite you to invest in your own transformation and support others on their journey. Your donation helps sustain the teachings and practices that empower individuals to connect with their true selves and make a meaningful impact in the world.

Join us in fostering real transformation—help illuminate the path to peace, wisdom, and purpose for all.

Buddhist Studies Institute is a project of Ngakpa International, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit EIN 68-0529687 and all gifts are tax-deductible as allowed by law.

Ngondro Training: Heart of the Vast Expanse
with Pema Khandro

Module 1 begins January 27

5pm PT | 8pm ET | 12pm AEDT

Ngondro meditations are the cornerstone of deep spiritual transformation, guiding practitioners to confront and heal key aspects of their lives—identity, relationships, body, and the past and future. These practices purify, train, and empower the mind and body, addressing critical areas of Buddhist psychology such as identity, forgiveness, empowerment, and relational dynamics.

This comprehensive Ngondro course will be taught in four modules over the course of one year, supporting steady progress in your practice. Module 1, The Field of Buddhas, will focus on the purification of speech and the generation of the refuge field. This practice helps you connect with your lineage, learn about your spiritual resources, and build a strong foundation of support for your journey.

This course is an invitation to begin a deep, transformative process that will guide you to spiritual freedom, healing, and a more empowered, authentic life.

New Year Meditation Marathon

Start the Year with a Transformative Journey of Self-Discovery

January 1-21 Online
8am PT | 11am ET | 4pm GMT

30 Minutes Meditation

This New Year, open the door to profound personal transformation through meditation. Our New Year Meditation Marathon invites you to embrace change, growth, and deeper self-awareness with daily 30-minute guided sessions (8-8:30am PT) of Tibetan Zhine (Calm Abiding) meditation.

Throughout this transformative journey, we’ll explore the Five Buddhist Precepts, helping you cultivate inner peace, clarity, and compassion—tools to create lasting change in your life. An optional community discussion from 8:30-8:45am PT provides space for further reflection and connection, enriching your experience and supporting your growth.

Join us as we step into the year ahead with a commitment to personal transformation, empowering you to live with greater purpose, peace, and presence.

The Meditation Marathon is led by certified instructors from the Buddhist Studies Institute. Learn more about becoming a certified meditation instructor with our 2025 Meditation Teacher Training

Embrace Transforming
Take Courses by Donation this Holiday Season

This holiday season, the Buddhist Studies Institute is offering a special opportunity to access transformative teachings by donation. For a limited time, you can explore select courses on meditation, Buddhist philosophy, and ethics—designed to support your spiritual growth and bring peace and clarity into your life.

These teachings are an invitation to deepen your understanding, cultivate inner peace, and align with the transformative power of Buddhist wisdom. Contribute what you can, and join our community in this journey of personal growth and profound change.

Don’t miss this chance to invest in your spiritual journey. Click below to explore our courses and begin your path of transformation today.




Winter Schedule of Events

1st & 2nd Wednesdays
Vajrayana Training

**VT moved to Jan 8 + 15 due to Holiday Season

3rd Wednesdays
Ngakpa Training

**NT moved to Jan 22 due to Holiday Season

Jan 1 – 21
New Year Meditation Marathon

Jan 27 – Apr 8
Ngondro Module 1: Field of Buddhas

Feb 10 – Aug 4
Meditation Teacher Training

Feb 21 – 23
Love as a Path to Liberation

*All Times noted in Pacific Time (PT)
Check your Timezone


A New Dawn

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!
Register Now

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!
Register Now

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!
Register Now

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…
Register Now

Love as a Path to Liberation

With Holly Gayley, Sarah Jacoby and Pema Khandro

February 21 - 23, 2025
Love as a Path to Liberation
Register now

Losar 2025

With Pema Khandro

March 5, 2025
All are welcome to join Pema Khandro for our annual Tibetan Lunar New Year Celebration This is a free online program; open to the public. Vajrakilaya Dances Performed Losar Address with Pema Khandro Celebration of 21-Day Meditation Marathoners Dedications of Merit Year of the Wood Snake Begins! Donate below any amount to celebrate The Buddhist Studies Institute’s mission to help the Buddhist Teachings flourish.
Register now

Choying Dzod 5: Unwavering Awareness

With Pema Khandro and Khenpo Yeshi

March 21 - 23, 2025
Beyond effort and achievement is the state of natural ease, the basic space of being. How to breakthrough to find this innate expanse is the focus of a profound Buddhist meditation manual known as The Treasury of Basic Space, The Choying Dzod (chos dbyings rin po che’i mdzod). It presents the essence of esoteric Tibetan Buddhism, known as Great Perfection, or Dzogchen (rdzogs chen) in verse form. Venerated as a manifestation of the expanse of reality itself,  is the quintessential Dzogchen text by the fourteenth century master, Longchenpa.  It refers to the expanse of reality and pure experience of meaningfulness as the revelation…
Register now

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A New Dawn

Help Buddhism Thrive

in 2025

As we approach the solstice, a time of transition from darkness to light, we reflect on the past to inspire the future. For over 2,500 years, the Buddhism has carried forward a lineage dedicated to deep transformation—both of individuals and society.

Protesting and self-help are important, but true change requires something deeper. To create lasting transformation, we must address the core of our being. Buddhism provides the path to this profound shift, reaching into the very heart of human nature to bring about lasting change.

This holiday season, we invite you to invest in yourself and others by donating to BSI. Your contribution helps us continue the essential teachings and practices that allow individuals to connect with their true potential, find their purpose, and make a lasting impact in the world.

Join us in nurturing true transformation.


We’ve raised $5000 so far –
Please donate now to help us reach our $25,000 Goal!

Buddhist Studies Institute is a project of Ngakpa International, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit EIN 68-0529687 and all gifts are tax-deductible as allowed by law.

Take Courses by Donation during the Holidays

For a limited time, the Buddhist Studies Institute is offering select courses by donation, allowing you to access profound teachings on meditation, Buddhist philosophy, and ethics at your own pace. These courses are designed to support your spiritual growth, offering valuable insights and practices to bring peace and clarity into your life. Contribute what you can and join our community in deepening your understanding and connection to these transformative teachings. Click below to explore these offerings.




Ngondro Training
Heart of the Vast Expanse
with Pema Khandro

Module 1 begins January 27

5pm PT | 8pm ET | 12pm AEDT

Ngondro meditations are the foundation of spiritual growth, focusing on identity, body, relationships, and the past and future. These practices purify, train, and empower the mind and body, addressing key areas of Buddhist psychology such as identity, relationships, forgiveness, and empowerment.

This comprehensive course on Ngondro will be taught in four modules to support the accomplishment of practice over the period of one year. Module 1, The Field of Buddhas, will focus on purification of speech and generating the refuge field.  This is a practice of getting resourced, learning one’s own lineage and understanding the field of support for one’s spiritual journey.

“There are different approaches to Ngondro, for some schools of Tibetan Buddhism it is reserved for much later. But for the Nyingma tradition we open the door to Ngondro meditations sooner, because for us it is the core or nucleus of spiritual training.”  – Pema Khandro on Ngondro

New Year
Meditation Marathon

January 1-21 Online
8am PT | 11am ET | 4pm GMT

30 Minutes Meditation

Begin the year with a transformative journey of self-discovery through meditation. Our New Year Meditation Marathon invites you to embrace change and growth through daily 30-minute guided sessions (8-8:30am PT) of Tibetan Zhine (Calm Abiding) meditation. Alongside the practice, we’ll explore the Five Buddhist Precepts, helping you cultivate inner peace, clarity, and compassion. An optional community discussion from 8:30-8:45am PT offers further reflection and connection. Join us as we open the door to profound transformation in the year ahead.

The Meditation Marathon is led by certified instructors from the Buddhist Studies Institute. Learn more about becoming a certified meditation instructor with our 2025 Meditation Teacher Training

Meditation Teacher Training

200 Hour Certification

February 10 – August 4, 2025

Embark on a transformative journey in 2025 and become a certified meditation teacher with the Buddhist Studies Institute’s comprehensive 200-hour program. This course blends live classes, mentoring, and practicums, diving deeply into traditional meditation practices, Buddhist philosophy, and ethics. Tailored to address the challenges of modern life, it equips future teachers with the wisdom, integrity, and compassion needed to guide diverse communities. Led by Pema Khandro, this program empowers you to learn the art of meditation instruction and bring lasting peace and transformation to a world in need.

Winter Schedule of Events

1st & 2nd Wednesdays
Vajrayana Training

**VT moved to Jan 8 + 15 due to Holiday Season

3rd Wednesdays
Ngakpa Training

**NT moved to Jan 22 due to Holiday Season

Jan 1 – 21
New Year Meditation Marathon

Jan 27 – Apr 8
Ngondro Module 1: Field of Buddhas

Feb 10 – Aug 4
Meditation Teacher Training

Feb 21 – 23
Love as a Path to Liberation

*All Times noted in Pacific Time (PT)
Check your Timezone


Reset, Recharge, and Renew

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!
Register Now

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!
Register Now

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!
Register Now

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…
Register Now

Love as a Path to Liberation

With Holly Gayley, Sarah Jacoby and Pema Khandro

February 21 - 23, 2025
Love as a Path to Liberation
Register now

Losar 2025

With Pema Khandro

March 5, 2025
All are welcome to join Pema Khandro for our annual Tibetan Lunar New Year Celebration This is a free online program; open to the public. Vajrakilaya Dances Performed Losar Address with Pema Khandro Celebration of 21-Day Meditation Marathoners Dedications of Merit Year of the Wood Snake Begins! Donate below any amount to celebrate The Buddhist Studies Institute’s mission to help the Buddhist Teachings flourish.
Register now

Choying Dzod 5: Unwavering Awareness

With Pema Khandro and Khenpo Yeshi

March 21 - 23, 2025
Beyond effort and achievement is the state of natural ease, the basic space of being. How to breakthrough to find this innate expanse is the focus of a profound Buddhist meditation manual known as The Treasury of Basic Space, The Choying Dzod (chos dbyings rin po che’i mdzod). It presents the essence of esoteric Tibetan Buddhism, known as Great Perfection, or Dzogchen (rdzogs chen) in verse form. Venerated as a manifestation of the expanse of reality itself,  is the quintessential Dzogchen text by the fourteenth century master, Longchenpa.  It refers to the expanse of reality and pure experience of meaningfulness as the revelation…
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Buddhist Studies Institute

New Year
Meditation Marathon

January 1-21 Online
8am PT | 11am ET | 4pm GMT

30 Minutes Meditation + 15 Minutes Optional Group Discussion

Start the year with a transformative journey of self-discovery through the meditation. Our New Year Meditation Marathon offers daily 30 minute guided sessions (8-8:30am PT) of Tibetan Zhine (Calm Abiding) meditation, along with reflections on the Five Buddhist Precepts, helping you cultivate peace, clarity, and compassion. Optional community discussion 8:30-8:45am PT.


The Meditation Marathon is led by certified instructors from the Buddhist Studies Institute. Learn more about becoming a certified meditation instructor with our 2025 Meditation Teacher Training

Become a certified meditation teacher in 2025 with the Buddhist Studies Institute’s robust 200-hour program. This self-paced course combines live classes, mentoring, and practicums, delving into traditional meditation, Buddhist philosophy, and ethics. Designed to address the complexities of modern life, it empowers teachers to guide diverse communities with wisdom, integrity, and compassion. Join a transformative journey led by Pema Khandro to learn the art of meditation instruction and bring peace to a turbulent world.

End of the Year Giving

We raised $4000 of our $25,000 Goal!

We are grateful for donations to support the End of Year 2024 Buddhist Studies Institute Fundraising drive. We are a grassroots organization and all of our funding is based on individual donations.

We hope you will remember us in your end of year giving and of course, if you can’t, then we also enjoy the continual support of volunteers, good will and prayers, the positive energy that has keeps us going! So please give however you can.

We have an exciting new year of programs and look forward to connecting with each other each other again and again. To make a donation, you can click the donate button below or mail your check to the address listed below. No amount is too small or too large! Every gift counts and makes a difference.

To gift by check, please make payable to Buddhist Studies Institute, and mail to:

Buddhist Studies Institute

P.O. Box 2396
Nevada City, California 95946
USA

Buddhist Studies Institute is a project of Ngakpa International, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit EIN 68-0529687 and all gifts are tax-deductible as allowed by law.

Thank you for your ongoing support and we look forward to seeing you for a full schedule of classes in 2025!

Warm Holiday Regards,

The Team at the Buddhist Studies Institute

Winter Schedule of Events

1st & 2nd Wednesdays
Vajrayana Training

**VT moved to Jan 8 + 15 due to Holiday Season

3rd Wednesdays
Ngakpa Training

**NT moved to Jan 22 due to Holiday Season

Jan 1 – 21
New Year Meditation Marathon

Jan 27 – Apr 8
Ngondro Module 1: Field of Buddhas

Feb 10 – Aug 4
Meditation Teacher Training

Feb 21 – 23
Love as a Path to Liberation

*All Times are noted in Pacific Time (PT)
Check your Timezone


Pema Khandro’s 21 Tara Birthday Fundraiser is Today!

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!
Register Now

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!
Register Now

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!
Register Now

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…
Register Now

Love as a Path to Liberation

With Holly Gayley, Sarah Jacoby and Pema Khandro

February 21 - 23, 2025
Love as a Path to Liberation
Register now

Losar 2025

With Pema Khandro

March 5, 2025
All are welcome to join Pema Khandro for our annual Tibetan Lunar New Year Celebration This is a free online program; open to the public. Vajrakilaya Dances Performed Losar Address with Pema Khandro Celebration of 21-Day Meditation Marathoners Dedications of Merit Year of the Wood Snake Begins! Donate below any amount to celebrate The Buddhist Studies Institute’s mission to help the Buddhist Teachings flourish.
Register now

Choying Dzod 5: Unwavering Awareness

With Pema Khandro and Khenpo Yeshi

March 21 - 23, 2025
Beyond effort and achievement is the state of natural ease, the basic space of being. How to breakthrough to find this innate expanse is the focus of a profound Buddhist meditation manual known as The Treasury of Basic Space, The Choying Dzod (chos dbyings rin po che’i mdzod). It presents the essence of esoteric Tibetan Buddhism, known as Great Perfection, or Dzogchen (rdzogs chen) in verse form. Venerated as a manifestation of the expanse of reality itself,  is the quintessential Dzogchen text by the fourteenth century master, Longchenpa.  It refers to the expanse of reality and pure experience of meaningfulness as the revelation…
Register now

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Buddhist Studies Institute

Join us to celebrate Pema Khandros’s Birthday

The 21 Taras are the 21 different manifestations of the female bodhisattva Tara, each with unique attributes, colors, and names representing the various aspects of compassion. This powerful chanting meditation is practiced through a set of 21 praises dedicated to all the forms of compassion ranging from gentle to fierce.  It is a rare gift to be able to practice Praises to the 21 Taras in the presence of the 3 jewels, which we will do tonight!


Be our guest at this joyous celebration in honor of our beloved Pema Khandro Rinpoche’s birthday!

Every year, Pema Khandro requests that any gifts of appreciation be made as monetary donations to her favorite non-profit organization, the Buddhist Studies Institute! Even if you cannot join the celebration tonight, you can still dedicate your appreciation gift by clicking the Donate button below.


Thank you for your ongoing support and we look forward to seeing you for a full schedule of classes in 2025!

Warm Holiday Regards,

The Team at the Buddhist Studies Institute

Winter Schedule of Events

ONGOING MONTHLY TRAINING
Vajrayana Training – 1st & 2nd Wednesday of each month
Ngakpa Training – 3rd Wednesday of each month

DECEMBER

21 Taras – Pema Khandro Birthday Fundraiser – December 4

JANUARY

21 Day Meditation Marathon – January 1-21

Ngondro Module 1: Field of Buddhas – January 27-April 8

FEBRUARY

Meditation Teacher Training – February 10-August 4

Love as a Path to Liberation – February 21-23

*All Times are noted in Pacific Time (PT) – Check your Timezone


🪷 Giving Tuesday 🪷

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!
Register Now

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!
Register Now

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!
Register Now

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…
Register Now

Love as a Path to Liberation

With Holly Gayley, Sarah Jacoby and Pema Khandro

February 21 - 23, 2025
Love as a Path to Liberation
Register now

Losar 2025

With Pema Khandro

March 5, 2025
All are welcome to join Pema Khandro for our annual Tibetan Lunar New Year Celebration This is a free online program; open to the public. Vajrakilaya Dances Performed Losar Address with Pema Khandro Celebration of 21-Day Meditation Marathoners Dedications of Merit Year of the Wood Snake Begins! Donate below any amount to celebrate The Buddhist Studies Institute’s mission to help the Buddhist Teachings flourish.
Register now

Choying Dzod 5: Unwavering Awareness

With Pema Khandro and Khenpo Yeshi

March 21 - 23, 2025
Beyond effort and achievement is the state of natural ease, the basic space of being. How to breakthrough to find this innate expanse is the focus of a profound Buddhist meditation manual known as The Treasury of Basic Space, The Choying Dzod (chos dbyings rin po che’i mdzod). It presents the essence of esoteric Tibetan Buddhism, known as Great Perfection, or Dzogchen (rdzogs chen) in verse form. Venerated as a manifestation of the expanse of reality itself,  is the quintessential Dzogchen text by the fourteenth century master, Longchenpa.  It refers to the expanse of reality and pure experience of meaningfulness as the revelation…
Register now

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Buddhist Studies Institute

Today is Giving Tuesday!

Dear Dharma Friends,

This year, our online school, the Buddhist Studies Institute, has continued to offer transformative programs to deepen our wisdom and compassion.

2024 Successes

Thanks to your support, we achieved remarkable milestones in 2024:

  • Technology Upgrades: $10,000 funded expanded Zoom capacity, enhanced editing tools, and transcription software.

  • System Maintenance: $4,000 maintained smooth operations of our online platform.

  • Security Enhancements: $650 improved online safety and functionality.

  • Carrying Forward Stability: $2,350 allocated for future needs.

Your generosity has allowed us to build a resilient, accessible platform for sharing the dharma with a global audience.

2024: A Year of Transformation

This past year was extraordinary. We served over 60 members through 131 programs, including online teachings, in-person retreats, and advanced training in Ngondro, Vajrayana, and Dzogchen.

Highlights included:

  • A pilgrimage to Bhutan tracing Longchenpa’s footsteps.

  • The Six Yoga Intensive upon Khandro-La’s return.

  • Over $13,800 in scholarships and financial aid, reflecting our commitment to generosity and inclusion.

Looking Ahead to 2025

Our plans for the coming year include:

  • Ngondro Training Returns! Come start ngondro with us or finally finish it!

  • Vajrayana Training continues, join us for an in depth study of the Vajrayogini practice

  • Launching a Chaplaincy Program and Advanced Meditation Instructor Training.

  • Shedra-level teachings with Khenpo Yeshe and special programs with Sarah Jacoby, Holly Gayley, Drupon Dorje Rinpoche, and more.

  • Retreats and intensives to deepen our connection to Buddhist wisdom.

Join Us for Our Year-End Fundraiser

This Giving Tuesday and year-end season, we invite you to support the continuation of our programs and services through donations. Your support ensures that the Buddhist Studies Institute continues to flourish, reaching more people and transforming lives. Our goal is to raise $25,ooo in the year-end fundraiser. Let’s rise to this challenge together and strengthen the foundation for a compassionate and awakened world. Your support matters. Donate today and be a part of this vital work.

Thank you for your generosity, vision, and unwavering love. 

Together, we can continue our thriving school in the new year!

With deep gratitude,
The Buddhist Studies Institute

To gift by check, please make payable to Buddhist Studies Institute and mail to:

Buddhist Studies Institute

P.O. Box 2396
Nevada City, California 95946
USA

Buddhist Studies Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit EIN 68-0529687 and all gifts are tax-deductible as allowed by law.

Join us for Pema Khandro’s Birthday

Pema Khandro’s Birthday Celebration & Fundraiser

Praise to the 21 Taras

Wednesday, December 4
6pm PT | 9pm ET | 1pm AEDT*

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 celebration in honor of our beloved Pema Khandro’s birthday.

*12/5 in Australia (AEDT)


Going Beyond the Boulders

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!
Register Now

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!
Register Now

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!
Register Now

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…
Register Now

Love as a Path to Liberation

With Holly Gayley, Sarah Jacoby and Pema Khandro

February 21 - 23, 2025
Love as a Path to Liberation
Register now

Losar 2025

With Pema Khandro

March 5, 2025
All are welcome to join Pema Khandro for our annual Tibetan Lunar New Year Celebration This is a free online program; open to the public. Vajrakilaya Dances Performed Losar Address with Pema Khandro Celebration of 21-Day Meditation Marathoners Dedications of Merit Year of the Wood Snake Begins! Donate below any amount to celebrate The Buddhist Studies Institute’s mission to help the Buddhist Teachings flourish.
Register now

Choying Dzod 5: Unwavering Awareness

With Pema Khandro and Khenpo Yeshi

March 21 - 23, 2025
Beyond effort and achievement is the state of natural ease, the basic space of being. How to breakthrough to find this innate expanse is the focus of a profound Buddhist meditation manual known as The Treasury of Basic Space, The Choying Dzod (chos dbyings rin po che’i mdzod). It presents the essence of esoteric Tibetan Buddhism, known as Great Perfection, or Dzogchen (rdzogs chen) in verse form. Venerated as a manifestation of the expanse of reality itself,  is the quintessential Dzogchen text by the fourteenth century master, Longchenpa.  It refers to the expanse of reality and pure experience of meaningfulness as the revelation…
Register now

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Buddhist Studies Institute

Resiliency-in-Action

Going Beyond the Boulders

As Tantric practitioners, we expect obstacles, difficulties and resistance.

We train so we are still altruistic and resilient, even after innumerable challenges. Padmasambhava predicted troubled times in the future.

He offered the dharma  to ‘go beyond the boulders’.

~Tulku Pema Khandro

Resiliency-In-Action

The story of Ngakpa International, our beloved teacher Pema Khandro-La and our sangha is a story of resilience, generosity and commitment in the face of great uncertainty.  In this current time of upheaval, we rely on the stability of our precious teacher, the dharma and the community of our devoted sangha. We rely on the vision of our logo, the Gyakil (Wheel of Joy) to cultivate complete openness, lucid presence and compassion.

Gyakil, Wheel of Joy

Our online school, the Buddhist Studies Institute offers us many programs to grow our suppleness, compassion and stable force.  Since our inception, we’ve all faced numerous challenges and even profound losses, both in our individual lives and as a sangha. Through your devotion, dedication and generosity, we’ve miraculously come together to help one another, and even weathered the emotional and economic uncertainties of the pandemic.

We practice the dharma to dance with this level of uncertainty and call in the benevolent forces, Dakinis and Dakas who clearly support us to fulfill our aspirations for success. Against all odds, we’re still here.

So what is success? Success is continuing to offer these teachings so people may practice and receive the treasures of the dharma. Success is growing the stability to bring the dharma to more and more people.

As we approach the turning of the New Year,  please join us in continuing to manifest this vision through your generous practices, donations and offerings.

Our Successes

Thanks to your generosity, we are thriving both on-line and in-person, receiving the precious Longchen Nyingthig teachings from Khandro-La. Our international community has grown since the pandemic, our membership has increased, teachings are available online to people across multiple time zones. Recordings of the programs now allow even more participants to experience the profound dharma and practices at their convenience. All this is clearly responding to a need for in-depth practices offered by Khandro-La who walks with unshakable integrity within our loving sangha.

2023 Technology Fundraiser

We are thrilled to share the impact of your generous support from last year’s fundraiser!

Thanks to your contributions, we raised $17,000 towards our technology goals in 2023. Here’s how your support made a difference:

  • $10,000 funded critical technology upgrades, including:expanded zoom, enhanced editing tools and transcription software.

  • $4,000 allocated to maintaining our current systems, ensuring smooth operation, and ongoing support for our programs and online platform.

  • $650 dedicated to essential security upgrades for our online presence.

  • $2,350 remaining to carry forward into 2025.

We sincerely appreciate all your support in helping us build a resilient, accessible platform for wisdom and connection.

2024 Educational Programs

2024 was a watershed year for us. We served over 60 members and offered over 131 programs online and in-person retreats, bi-monthly classes, Ngondro, Meditation Instructor and other leadership training. Khandro-La and the  illustrious visiting teachers offered dharma and empowerments for a full range of Buddhist studies from introductory meditation instruction, Mahayana, Vajrayana and some of the most pith, advanced Dzogchen teachings. The year culminated this fall with a once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage to Bhutan, following in the footsteps of Longchenpa. When Khandro-La and the sangha returned from abroad, she offered the precious Six Yoga Intensive.

Financial Aid/ Scholarships

Our organization is founded on practices of generosity. One way we fulfill this is by offering financial assistance, work study and scholarships to people in need. In 2023, we offered over $13,800 of financial aid and support to our members.

2025 Future Dharma Programs

We have a rich calendar of events for the upcoming year. As well as continuing our ongoing Vajrayana and Ngakpa Trainings, we are launching our Chaplaincy Program and an Advanced Meditation Instructor Training. We are also blessed to have Khandro-La offer shedra-level teachings with esteemed Dzogchen scholar Khenpo Yeshe; teachings with Sarah Jakoby and Holly Gayley;  a Chakrasamvara Retreat with Drupon Dorje Rinpoche; and a Korde Rushen Retreat.

Our 2024 Year-End Fundraising Goal

Help us land stability in uncertainty.

Join with us in all your creative visioning, practices and funds to support Ngakpa International and our educational arm, Buddhist Studies Institute.

Let’s land our dharma teachings by meeting the challenges of uncertainty with unflagging  ground. Let’s rise up to this challenge so we can encounter our true nature.On this path of the Awakened Mind Warriors we cultivate a stable, calm, caring and compassionate way of being.

We can not do this alone.

Thank you for your generous hearts of service.

Thank you for your vision and love.

Giving Tuesday is Tommorrow!

To all the supporters of the Buddhist Studies Institute – thank you!

Giving Tuesday is tomorrow, and we are grateful for donations to support the End of Year 2024 Buddhist Studies Institute Fundraising drive. We are a grassroots organization and all of our funding is based on individual donations.

We hope you will remember us in your end of year giving and of course, if you can’t, then we also enjoy the continual support of volunteers, good will and prayers, the positive energy that has keeps us going! So please give however you can.

We have an exciting new year of programs and look forward to connecting with each other each other again and again. To make a donation, you can click the donate button below or mail your check to the address listed below. No amount is too small or too large! Every gift counts and makes a difference.

To gift by check, please make payable to Ngakpa International, and mail to:

Ngakpa International

P.O. Box 2396
Nevada City, California 95946
USA

Ngakpa International is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit EIN 68-0529687 and all gifts are tax-deductible as allowed by law.

Join us for Pema Khandro’s Birthday

Pema Khandro’s Birthday Celebration & Fundraiser

Praise to the 21 Taras

Wednesday, December 4
6pm PT | 9pm ET | 1pm AEDT*

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 celebration in honor of our beloved Pema Khandro’s birthday.

*12/5 in Australia (AEDT)

21-Day Meditation Marathon

January 1-21 Online
8am PT | 11am ET | 4pm GMT

The New Year Meditation Marathon is led by a diverse faculty of Buddhist Studies Institute certified meditation instructors who facilitate Tibetan Zhine (Calm Abiding) meditation followed by a reading and contemplation of one of the Five Buddhist Precepts.

Surrounded by Buddhist Women

In October Khandro-la, sangha members, friends, and Dharma teacher Jampa Stewart traveled to the sacred land of Bhutan for a pilgrimage in the footsteps of Longchempa. A few years ago, Pema Khandro also travelled to another sacred land, Indonesia, for the Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women’s Conference where she presented on Women’s Leadership in Tibetan Buddhism’s History.


Volunteer Opportunities
with the Buddhist Studies Institute

Are you grateful for BSI and looking for ways to contribute? Support the Buddhist Studies Institute, an online school dedicated to preserving and promoting Tibetan Buddhist education, and become a volunteer!

We’re seeking people to help with:

  • Fundraising

  • Marketing

  • Website support

Your skills can help expand our reach, deepen our impact, and support our mission of offering accessible teachings, fostering compassionate communities, and preserving ancient wisdom for future generations.

Be part of this joyful journey and use your talents to bring the light of Tibetan Buddhism and Pema Khandro’s teachings to a global audience. Together, we can make a difference!

Interested? Email info@buddhiststudiesinstitute.org

Winter Schedule of Events

ONGOING MONTHLY TRAINING
Vajrayana Training – 1st & 2nd Wednesday of each month
Ngakpa Training – 3rd Wednesday of each month

DECEMBER

21 Taras – Pema Khandro Birthday Fundraiser – December 4

JANUARY
21 Day Meditation Marathon – January 1-21

Ngondro Module 1: Field of Buddhas – January 27-April 8

FEBRUARY
Meditation Teacher Training – February 10-August 4
Love as a Path to Liberation – February 21-23

*All Times are noted in Pacific Time (PT) – Check your Timezone


Together, Let’s Go Beyond the Boulders

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!
Register Now

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!
Register Now

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!
Register Now

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…
Register Now

Love as a Path to Liberation

With Holly Gayley, Sarah Jacoby and Pema Khandro

February 21 - 23, 2025
Love as a Path to Liberation
Register now

Losar 2025

With Pema Khandro

March 5, 2025
All are welcome to join Pema Khandro for our annual Tibetan Lunar New Year Celebration This is a free online program; open to the public. Vajrakilaya Dances Performed Losar Address with Pema Khandro Celebration of 21-Day Meditation Marathoners Dedications of Merit Year of the Wood Snake Begins! Donate below any amount to celebrate The Buddhist Studies Institute’s mission to help the Buddhist Teachings flourish.
Register now

Choying Dzod 5: Unwavering Awareness

With Pema Khandro and Khenpo Yeshi

March 21 - 23, 2025
Beyond effort and achievement is the state of natural ease, the basic space of being. How to breakthrough to find this innate expanse is the focus of a profound Buddhist meditation manual known as The Treasury of Basic Space, The Choying Dzod (chos dbyings rin po che’i mdzod). It presents the essence of esoteric Tibetan Buddhism, known as Great Perfection, or Dzogchen (rdzogs chen) in verse form. Venerated as a manifestation of the expanse of reality itself,  is the quintessential Dzogchen text by the fourteenth century master, Longchenpa.  It refers to the expanse of reality and pure experience of meaningfulness as the revelation…
Register now

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Resiliency-in-Action

Going Beyond the Boulders

As Tantric practitioners, we expect obstacles, difficulties and resistance.

We train so we are still altruistic and resilient, even after innumerable challenges. Padmasambhava predicted troubled times in the future.

He offered the dharma  to ‘go beyond the boulders’.

~Tulku Pema Khandro

Resiliency-In-Action

The story of Ngakpa International, our beloved teacher Pema Khandro-La and our sangha is a story of resilience, generosity and commitment in the face of great uncertainty.  In this current time of upheaval, we rely on the stability of our precious teacher, the dharma and the community of our devoted sangha. We rely on the vision of our logo, the Gyakil (Wheel of Joy) to cultivate complete openness, lucid presence and compassion.

Gyakil, Wheel of Joy

Our online school, the Buddhist Studies Institute offers us many programs to grow our suppleness, compassion and stable force.  Since our inception, we’ve all faced numerous challenges and even profound losses, both in our individual lives and as a sangha. Through your devotion, dedication and generosity, we’ve miraculously come together to help one another, and even weathered the emotional and economic uncertainties of the pandemic.

We practice the dharma to dance with this level of uncertainty and call in the benevolent forces, Dakinis and Dakas who clearly support us to fulfill our aspirations for success. Against all odds, we’re still here.

So what is success? Success is continuing to offer these teachings so people may practice and receive the treasures of the dharma. Success is growing the stability to bring the dharma to more and more people.

As we approach the turning of the New Year,  please join us in continuing to manifest this vision through your generous practices, donations and offerings.

Our Successes

Thanks to your generosity, we are thriving both on-line and in-person, receiving the precious Longchen Nyingthig teachings from Khandro-La. Our international community has grown since the pandemic, our membership has increased, teachings are available online to people across multiple time zones. Recordings of the programs now allow even more participants to experience the profound dharma and practices at their convenience. All this is clearly responding to a need for in-depth practices offered by Khandro-La who walks with unshakable integrity within our loving sangha.

2023 Technology Fundraiser

We are thrilled to share the impact of your generous support from last year’s fundraiser!

Thanks to your contributions, we raised $17,000 towards our technology goals in 2023. Here’s how your support made a difference:

  • $10,000 funded critical technology upgrades, including:expanded zoom, enhanced editing tools and transcription software.

  • $4,000 allocated to maintaining our current systems, ensuring smooth operation, and ongoing support for our programs and online platform.

  • $650 dedicated to essential security upgrades for our online presence.

  • $2,350 remaining to carry forward into 2025.

We sincerely appreciate all your support in helping us build a resilient, accessible platform for wisdom and connection.

2024 Educational Programs

2024 was a watershed year for us. We served over 60 members and offered over 131 programs online and in-person retreats, bi-monthly classes, Ngondro, Meditation Instructor and other leadership training. Khandro-La and the  illustrious visiting teachers offered dharma and empowerments for a full range of Buddhist studies from introductory meditation instruction, Mahayana, Vajrayana and some of the most pith, advanced Dzogchen teachings. The year culminated this fall with a once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage to Bhutan, following in the footsteps of Longchenpa. When Khandro-La and the sangha returned from abroad, she offered the precious Six Yoga Intensive.

Financial Aid/ Scholarships

Our organization is founded on practices of generosity. One way we fulfill this is by offering financial assistance, work study and scholarships to people in need. In 2023, we offered over $13,800 of financial aid and support to our members.

2025 Future Dharma Programs

We have a rich calendar of events for the upcoming year. As well as continuing our ongoing Vajrayana and Ngakpa Trainings, we are launching our Chaplaincy Program and an Advanced Meditation Instructor Training. We are also blessed to have Khandro-La offer shedra-level teachings with esteemed Dzogchen scholar Khenpo Yeshe; teachings with Sarah Jakoby and Holly Gayley;  a Chakrasamvara Retreat with Drupon Dorje Rinpoche; and a Korde Rushen Retreat.

Our 2024 Year-End Fundraising Goal

Help us land stability in uncertainty.

Join with us in all your creative visioning, practices and funds to support Ngakpa International and our educational arm, Buddhist Studies Institute.

Let’s land our dharma teachings by meeting the challenges of uncertainty with unflagging  ground. Let’s rise up to this challenge so we can encounter our true nature.On this path of the Awakened Mind Warriors we cultivate a stable, calm, caring and compassionate way of being.

We can not do this alone.

Thank you for your generous hearts of service.

Thank you for your vision and love.

Giving Tuesday is Tommorrow!

To all the supporters of the Buddhist Studies Institute – thank you!

Giving Tuesday is tomorrow, and we are grateful for donations to support the End of Year 2024 Buddhist Studies Institute Fundraising drive. We are a grassroots organization and all of our funding is based on individual donations.

We hope you will remember us in your end of year giving and of course, if you can’t, then we also enjoy the continual support of volunteers, good will and prayers, the positive energy that has keeps us going! So please give however you can.

We have an exciting new year of programs and look forward to connecting with each other each other again and again. To make a donation, you can click the donate button below or mail your check to the address listed below. No amount is too small or too large! Every gift counts and makes a difference.

To gift by check, please make payable to Ngakpa International, and mail to:

Ngakpa International

P.O. Box 2396
Nevada City, California 95946
USA

Ngakpa International is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit EIN 68-0529687 and all gifts are tax-deductible as allowed by law.

Join us for Pema Khandro’s Birthday

Pema Khandro’s Birthday Celebration & Fundraiser

Praise to the 21 Taras

Wednesday, December 4
6pm PT | 9pm ET | 1pm AEDT*

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 celebration in honor of our beloved Pema Khandro’s birthday.

*12/5 in Australia (AEDT)

21-Day Meditation Marathon

January 1-21 Online
8am PT | 11am ET | 4pm GMT

The New Year Meditation Marathon is led by a diverse faculty of Buddhist Studies Institute certified meditation instructors who facilitate Tibetan Zhine (Calm Abiding) meditation followed by a reading and contemplation of one of the Five Buddhist Precepts.

Surrounded by Buddhist Women

In October Khandro-la, sangha members, friends, and Dharma teacher Jampa Stewart traveled to the sacred land of Bhutan for a pilgrimage in the footsteps of Longchempa. A few years ago, Pema Khandro also travelled to another sacred land, Indonesia, for the Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women’s Conference where she presented on Women’s Leadership in Tibetan Buddhism’s History.


Volunteer Opportunities
with the Buddhist Studies Institute

Are you grateful for BSI and looking for ways to contribute? Support the Buddhist Studies Institute, an online school dedicated to preserving and promoting Tibetan Buddhist education, and become a volunteer!

We’re seeking people to help with:

  • Fundraising

  • Marketing

  • Website support

Your skills can help expand our reach, deepen our impact, and support our mission of offering accessible teachings, fostering compassionate communities, and preserving ancient wisdom for future generations.

Be part of this joyful journey and use your talents to bring the light of Tibetan Buddhism and Pema Khandro’s teachings to a global audience. Together, we can make a difference!

Interested? Email info@buddhiststudiesinstitute.org

Winter Schedule of Events

ONGOING MONTHLY TRAINING
Vajrayana Training – 1st & 2nd Wednesday of each month
Ngakpa Training – 3rd Wednesday of each month

DECEMBER

21 Taras – Pema Khandro Birthday Fundraiser – December 4

JANUARY
21 Day Meditation Marathon – January 1-21

Ngondro Module 1: Field of Buddhas – January 27-April 8

FEBRUARY
Meditation Teacher Training – February 10-August 4
Love as a Path to Liberation – February 21-23

*All Times are noted in Pacific Time (PT) – Check your Timezone


✨ ‘Tis the Season of Practice ✨

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!
Register Now

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!
Register Now

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!
Register Now

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…
Register Now

Love as a Path to Liberation

With Holly Gayley, Sarah Jacoby and Pema Khandro

February 21 - 23, 2025
Love as a Path to Liberation
Register now

Losar 2025

With Pema Khandro

March 5, 2025
All are welcome to join Pema Khandro for our annual Tibetan Lunar New Year Celebration This is a free online program; open to the public. Vajrakilaya Dances Performed Losar Address with Pema Khandro Celebration of 21-Day Meditation Marathoners Dedications of Merit Year of the Wood Snake Begins! Donate below any amount to celebrate The Buddhist Studies Institute’s mission to help the Buddhist Teachings flourish.
Register now

Choying Dzod 5: Unwavering Awareness

With Pema Khandro and Khenpo Yeshi

March 21 - 23, 2025
Beyond effort and achievement is the state of natural ease, the basic space of being. How to breakthrough to find this innate expanse is the focus of a profound Buddhist meditation manual known as The Treasury of Basic Space, The Choying Dzod (chos dbyings rin po che’i mdzod). It presents the essence of esoteric Tibetan Buddhism, known as Great Perfection, or Dzogchen (rdzogs chen) in verse form. Venerated as a manifestation of the expanse of reality itself,  is the quintessential Dzogchen text by the fourteenth century master, Longchenpa.  It refers to the expanse of reality and pure experience of meaningfulness as the revelation…
Register now

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Join us for the 21 Taras

Pema Khandro’s Birthday Celebration & Fundraiser

Praise to the 21 Taras

Wednesday, December 4
6pm PT | 9pm ET | 1pm AEDT*

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 celebration in honor of our beloved Pema Khandro’s birthday.

*12/5 in Australia (AEDT)

21-Day Meditation Marathon

January 1-21 Online
8am PT | 11am ET | 4pm GMT

The New Year Meditation Marathon is led by a diverse faculty of Buddhist Studies Institute certified meditation instructors who facilitate Tibetan Zhine (Calm Abiding) meditation followed by a reading and contemplation of one of the Five Buddhist Precepts.

Ngondro Module 1 – Field of Buddhas

Mondays, January 27-April 8
5pm PT | 8pm ET

Ngondro presents the core practices of Buddhist psychology, working with core needs in identity, relationality, forgiveness and repair, resources and the sense of empowerment. Join Pema Khandro and the Buddhist Studies Institute for a journey into Ngondro, the core practice of Buddhist tantra.


This module focuses on the purification of speech as the basis for Buddhist tantric practice. It then focuses on generating the refuge field. This is a practice of getting resourced, learning one’s own lineage and understanding the field of support for one’s spiritual journey. This section concludes with a focus on raising the altruistic, enlightened intent, bodhichitta. Bodhichitta is the ground, the fuel and purpose of life and it is the essential ingredient in tantric meditations

Meditation Teacher Training
200-Hour Certification

February 10-August 4

with Pema Khandro, Aruna Rig’dzin, and Satya Shiva

The Meditation Instructor Training supplies the fundamental knowledge and experience necessary to lead meditation classes and one-day meditation intensives.

People all over the world have turned to Buddhist meditation as a source of wisdom. Meditation offers a powerful method to access a sense of spaciousness, peace and authentic presence.

From a Buddhist point of view, when we know how to meditate, we learn how to work with mind and emotions. We have a practice for unraveling conditioned scripts and unconscious habits. Meditation is a pathway to discovering human goodness by making peace with our mind. Ultimately it is a method for getting free from dissatisfaction, resolving confusion and waking up to see reality more clearly.

Registration Opens Soon.

Volunteer Opportunities
with the Buddhist Studies Institute

Are you passionate about Tibetan Buddhism and eager to make a meaningful impact? Join the Buddhist Studies Institute, an online school dedicated to preserving and promoting Tibetan Buddhist education. We’re seeking volunteers with expertise in fundraising and marketing to help expand our reach and deepen our impact. Your skills can support our mission of offering accessible teachings, fostering compassionate communities, and preserving ancient wisdom for future generations. Be part of this transformative journey and use your talents to bring the light of Tibetan Buddhism and Pema Khandro’s teachings to a global audience. Together, we can make a difference!

Interested? Email info@buddhiststudiesinstitute.org

Winter Schedule of Events

ONGOING MONTHLY TRAINING
Vajrayana Training – 1st & 2nd Wednesday of each month
Ngakpa Training – 3rd Wednesday of each month

DECEMBER

21 Taras – Pema Khandro Birthday Fundraiser – December 4

JANUARY
21 Day Meditation Marathon – January 1-21

Ngondro Module 1: Field of Buddhas – January 27-April 8

FEBRUARY
Meditation Teacher Training – February 10-August 4
Love as a Path to Liberation – February 21-23

*All Times are noted in Pacific Time (PT) – Check your Timezone


Contact

Email: info@BuddhistYogis.org