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In the Presence of Dying

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!
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…
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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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Facing realities of dying, death and grief are central to our human experience. This online series offers reflections on dying, illness, loss and grief from the point of view of experts in diverse fields such as caregiving, hospice, Buddhist ministry and past-life research.  Four Evening Interviews will be led by Pema Khandro Monday-Thursday evening. This is followed by a one day course on Tibetan Buddhist teachings on dying and Death and an Open Buddhist Memorial Service to commemorate the lives of loved ones we have lost.

In the Presence of Dying
Conversations on Dying, Death and Post Death

Interviews with Pema Khandro and Guest Teachers June 22 – 25

Facing realities of dying, death and grief are central to our human experience. This online series offers reflections on dying, illness, loss and grief from the point of view of experts in diverse fields such as caregiving, hospice, Buddhist ministry and past-life research.

Four Evening Interviews will be led by Pema Khandro Monday-Thursday evening.

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In the Presence of Dying
Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on Death & Memorial Service

Online Retreat & Memorial Service June 27

Death, Dying & Rebirth, the Tibetan Bardo Teachings 10am PST – 1pm PST
Pema Khandro will present Tibetan Buddhist teachings on  preparing ourselves and loved ones for death.

Stories From the Life of My Loved Ones 3p-4pm PST
Community Tea Time, sharing stories of our lost loved ones in small groups.

Open Memorial Service 4pm -6pm PST
Open Buddhist Memorial service online for all those who have passed away led by Pema Khandro. Short eulogies and dedications will be read and the Buddhist Funeral rites will be performed.

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PemaKhandro_Chod_3Fear as a Path to Liberation
Dakini Day Chod – Online
     Chod is a meditation method through meeting fear and neurosis with compassion and skill. 
This is a Tibetan meditation which is a potent, dynamic practice for cutting through fear and facing death. It is a practice of healing through ultimate compassion. The practice is the Dzogchen Chod, known as Khandro Geykyang, the Laugher of the Dakinis, the concise version. Rinpoche will lead the practice and discuss its meaning. This has been a monthly practice in Virginia for the last two years on Dakini Day, but in-person Chod practices are cancelled and Pema Khandro Rinpoche will now be offering Chod practice online for the first time, in order to support Vajrayana practitioners during the worldwide pandemic.
Donations Welcome ~ No one turned away for lack of funds

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UPCOMING TEACHINGS ONLINE

June 16 – Dakini Day Chod: Fear as a Path to Liberation

June 22-25 – Conversations on Dying, Death and Post Death

June 27 – In the Presence of Dying: Retreat & Memorial Service

July 15 – Dakini Day Chod: The Five Wisdom Dakinis

BUDDHIST YOGIS INFO  ♦  DONATE  ♦  VISIT OUR WEBSITES

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Ngakpa International • PO Box 2396 • Nevada City, CA • USA

 

Black Lives Matter

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

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
Register now

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Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter. We grieve for the loss of lives of George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery. Eric Garner. Tamir Rice. Trayvon Martin. Sandra Bland. Oscar Grant. Philando Castile. Walter Scott. Terrence Crutcher. Samuel Dubose. Michael Brown… and so many others… We stand in solidarity with our Black community who has been again subject to racism, pain, suffering and brutality. This happens as we grieve for the 100,000 people who have died of COVID-19 which has disproportionately affected communities of color.

We are committed to searching our hearts and minds, learning and educating so that racism and all forms of hate are cut at their root.

We are committed to providing education in the fundamental tools needed to create communities in which people of all races and ethnicities can live in safety and dignity including Black, Brown, Indigenous, Trans and Queer People.

Self-Awarenesss. Self-Regulation. Healing Trauma.

Empathy. Compassion.

Communication. Collaboration. Education. Altruistic Action.

Faith communities each respond in their own ways to times of tragedy. We are a Buddhist community led by an indigenous woman of color, thus we regard diversity issues as core to understandings of the Buddhist philosophy of emptiness, compassion and interdependence. There are so many actions needed for the world to change, at Ngakpa Intl. we work together to contribute to that change through providing education and empowerment of all those we serve.

The Poem Read for The Retreat

When black men are 3.6 times more likely to die from police use of force
… I can’t breathe.

When black men between the ages of 18-35 are dying twice as fast as any other American

…I can’t breathe.

When 100,000 migrant children have been held in detention by the U.S. government

… I can’t breathe.

When murder is the third-leading cause of death among American Indian/Alaskan Native women

… I can’t breathe.

When 25 million American women and 2.8 million American men are survivors of sexual violence

… I can’t breathe.

Father Lamas, Mother Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Dakas and Dakinis, Protectors, lineage masters, elders and ancestors.
Help me to breathe in “I Can’t Breathe” and breathe out compassion
Help me to breathe in “I Can’t Breathe” and breathe out education
Help me to breathe in “I Can’t Breathe” and breathe out altruistic action
Help me to breathe in “I Can’t Breathe” and breathe out the practice of liberation.

May all the pain of every living being be completely scattered and dissolved.
For all those ailing in the world, Until their every sickness has been healed,
May I myself become for them The doctor, nurse, the medicine itself.
Raining down a flood of food and drink, may I dispel the ills of thirst and famine.
In the eons marked by scarcity and want, may I myself appear as drink and sustenance.
For sentient beings, poor and destitute, may I become a treasure ever-plentiful,
and lie before them closely in their reach, a varied source of all that they might need.
My body, thus, and all my goods besides, and all my merits gained and to be gained,
I give them all and do not count the cost, to bring about the benefit of beings.
May I be a guard for those who are protector-less, a guide for those who journey on the road.
For those who wish to cross the water, may I be a boat, a raft, a bridge.
May I be an isle for those who yearn for land, a lamp for those who long for light;
For all who need a resting place, may I be a bed.
Thus for everything that lives, As far as are the limits of the sky,
may I be constantly their source of livelihood until they pass beyond all sorrow.

(Excerpts from Pema Khandro’s poem and Shantideva’s bodhisattva vow as read at the Vajrayogini empowerment May 31, 2020)

Letter from Pema Khandro To the Sangha

Dear Friends,

I hope that by now you have read the Black Lives Matter statement I wrote for our sangha at ngakpa.org homepage and on our news site pemakhandro.com. I suggest you take time to look up each one of the names listed there and their stories. These are the stories of black lives that have been ended by racist violence. That is why we must say collectively that Black Lives Matter and uproot our own racism and collectively unravel systemic racism.

Right now there is much rage and grief and therefore this too is further training.

When rage and grief arises we must care for it. We must pay attention, breathing, witnessing, integrating as the storm moves through us. We may bring it to meet our calm and our presence, while accepting it completely as it is. We may bring it to meet our bodhichitta, while accepting it completely as it is.

For ourselves and so many of our friends who are suffering greatly, remember every experience has its peak and then dissipates. Knowing this we can weather anything. What this rage and grief will leave in its wake is yet unknown – but it should inevitably lead to altruistic action.

I reject the binary between calm and action. We must be able to self-regulate in order to act skillfully for the benefit of others.

We often fear anger and grief so much because it often takes over us as an overwhelming force in which we might drown. So the maladaptive way would be to suppress it.

But neither suppressing nor indulging relieve suffering.

We must learn to metabolize, hone and use these great energies for the benefit of ourselves and others. We must train to be stable, present and skillful within intensity. This is what it is to act as a bodhisattva. And when we learn to engage with power with the mind bent upon relieving suffering of others, this is what it is to realize the highest potential of Vajrayana Buddhism.

But this begins with acceptance, accepting even our rage and grief, even our sorrows and anxieties. Transformation begins with meeting these energies as they are. As Buddhists, we rely on specific methods to foster this acceptance and transformation, otherwise it is too difficult if we attempt to just think our way through powerful emotions.

In Vajrayana we say that anger met with bodhichitta leads to fierce compassion, a strategic, wise and powerful energy that works for relieve suffering. It is the Vajra wisdom Dakini.

And our grief met with bodhichitta, opens us to our interdependence with all beings.

Since our society is now publicly grieving the brutal systemic racism that has been a part of our nation since its founding, may we make room to grieve, learn, listen, speak and act in new ways.

Tomorrow is Saga Dawa, the birthday of the Buddha, his enlightenment day and his birth and death day and an eclipse day all in one. It is the radical coinciding of all these threshold experiences. And we too are at a threshold as a culture, as we reflect on what has been and raise the flag of hope for changes to come.

Thresholds are liminal spaces, as we say in Tibetan Buddhism, they are bardos. In a bardo there is no certainty. There is no structure. There is no safe haven. The bardo is good for only one thing – and that is transformation.

May we harness the storm of emotions so that we may be sources of solace, wisdom and altruistic action in all transformations to come.

For this Saga Dawa, may we awaken with empathy, compassion and altruistic action to the plight of Black Lives. In so doing, may we actualize the vision of the Buddha in which class and racial barriers were cast aside to foster an inclusive community moving forward towards individual and collective awakening.

Yours always,

Pema Khandro

Resources:

By Remembering Our Sisters, We Challenge Police Violence Against Black Women and Legacies that Eclipse these Injustices. By the Association of Black Women Historians http://abwh.org/2020/05/31/by-remembering-our-sisters-we-challenge-police-violence-against-black-women-and-legacies-that-eclipse-these-injustices/

Video: Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses ‘White Fragility’

Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger by Lama Rod Owens

Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation by angel Kyodo Williams,

Lama Rod Owens and Jasmine Syedhullah

Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out by Ruth King

Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community by Larry Yang 

From BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, by Keeanga-Yahmatta Taylor

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, by Robin Diangelo

How To Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide, by Crystal Fleming

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

Letter from Pema Khandro

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

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
Register now

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Dear Friends and Members, PemaKhandro_42ngakpa.org

I never knew that I could fall in love with a land. But it happened to me twice. Once was in Eastern Tibet and the next time was at Dakini Mountain, the two places share this sense of stunning expanse and beauty. I have had a long time dream of establishing a pilgrimage site for Vajrayogini in the West and when we found our land in the Tahoe National Forest, I knew that the era of Dakini Mountain was dawning upon us.

Vajrayogini is an important symbol. Visually what is stunning about her is that she is a female buddha in warrior stance. Her image speaks volumes about Buddhist tantra – the embrace of embodiment, the empowerment of the sacred feminine, the potential to awaken some free and crisp aspect of mind. Vajrayogini symbolizes the compassion which is capable of being fierce or gentle, passionate or peaceful, according to what is needed to relieve suffering.

When we meditate on the buddhas such as Vajrayogini, it is not because we are worshipping an external god or deity. Quite the contrary, what we are venerating is the beauty and power of the nature of mind. There exists some aspect in mind which is Vajrayogini – free, powerful, passionate but devoid of self-grasping. It is vividly engaging experience, yet without self-deception. Awakening this aspect of mind is why we do Vajrayogini meditation. Vajrayogini is an emblem of inner freedom and the capacity of all beings, even those deemed unlikely or unworthy, to realize and embody that freedom.

This weekend we are consecrating our Vajrayogini shrine at Dakini Mountain and along with it we will have an online weekend meditation retreat and Vajrayogini and empowerment. I invite you to join us for this auspicious occasion. Practicing meditation and visualizations together at this time is an important way for us to decompress, recalibrate and tune into our quiescence. We will have meditation classes together as well as a community tea time to keep in touch and reconnect. And of course there will be the lung for the three Dakini Chod (the Rinchen Trengwa) and the empowerment for Vajrayogini.

If you can, please join us for the whole weekend and if you are unable to attend all weekend, then we welcome you to participate on Sunday, when I will be hosting the very accomplished Venerable Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche as our guest teacher.

If you are not able to join in person, but you would like to sponsor the mandala offering for yourself or for your loved one you can click here to make a donation: Mandala Offering for Loved Ones

For mandala offering sponsors – when we make the mandala offering prayers will be read out and the enormous positive merit generated by our practices will be dedicated to yourself and your loved ones.

Also you may wish to choose to donate to our Dakini Mountain Emergency Fund here: Dakini Mountain Emergency Fund

We have been affected by the pandemic which has meant the missing of our retreat season. Every donation will help us to continue Ngakpa International’s humanitarian activities and to continue to sustain Dakini Mountain through these perilous times. Click Here to Donate Now

Finally, I want to finish with some notes of encouragement. Times are so difficult right now, so self care, doing retreat, engaging in daily meditation and exercise are essential. There are other options besides gaslighting and denial. But self-regulation is a key to being able to have these other choices. We do not have to live in fear, we can instead spread empathy, compassion and self-compassion. We must be brave and choose love.

Yours always,
Pema Khandro logo

From May 29th-31st, join us in an online meditation retreat led by Pema Khandro. We will also host special guest teacher Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche who will bestow the Vajrayogini empowerment. The weekend will focus on a Buddhist meditation retreat in your own home, through an online retreat format.

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PemaKhandro_Chod_3

Chod is a meditation method through meeting fear and neurosis with compassion and skill.

This is a Tibetan meditation which is a potent, dynamic practice for cutting through fear and facing death. It is a practice of healing through ultimate compassion. The practice is the Dzogchen Chod, known as Khandro Geykyang, the Laugher of the Dakinis, the concise version. Rinpoche will lead the practice and discuss its meaning. This has been a monthly practice in Virginia for the last two years on Dakini Day, but in-person Chod practices are cancelled and Pema Khandro Rinpoche will now be offering Chod practice online for the first time, in order to support Vajrayana practitioners during the worldwide pandemic.

Donations Welcome ~ No one turned away for lack of funds
► Learn More

UPCOMING TEACHINGS ONLINE

May
May 29-31  –  Vajrayogini Retreat & Dakini Mountain Consecration


Dakini Day Chod
June 16th – Fear as a Path to Liberation
July 15th – The Five Wisdom Dakinis

BUDDHIST YOGIS INFO  ♦  DONATE  ♦  VISIT OUR WEBSITES

Ngakpa.org
PemaKhandro.org
BuddhistStudiesInstitute.org
DakiniMountain.org
YogicMedicineInstitute.org

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Copyright Ⓒ 2019
Ngakpa International • PO Box 2396 • Nevada City, CA • USA

 

Vajrayogini Retreat & Dakini Mountain Consecration

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

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
Register now

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Dear Friends and Members,

We are fast approaching a special day in the history of our community, the consecration of Dakini Mountain, Pema Khandro’s life long dream and the celebration of twenty years of her teaching.

This occasion has been transformed, as everything else has, by the global pandemic. As a result we are being creative about how to raise positive energy for the Dakini Mountain consecration while also supporting the shelter-in-place orders which are so necessary to promote the greatest safety possible.

From May 29th-31st, join us in an online meditation retreat led by Pema Khandro. We will also host special guest teacher Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche who will bestow the Vajrayogini empowerment. The weekend will focus on a Buddhist meditation retreat in your own home, through an online retreat format.

This retreat celebrates the installment of the Vajrayogini shrine at Dakini Mountain, a pilgrimage site for Vajrayogini in the Lake Tahoe National Forest of Northern California, founded by Pema Khandro. Vajrayogini is regarded as the essence of all buddhas, venerated by every sect of Tibetan Buddhism and venerated by Buddhists (and Hindus) all over the world. Vajrayogini is the symbol of the freedom and power of intrinsic wisdom and the enlightened feminine wisdom that severs suffering at its root. 

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Chod is a meditation method through meeting fear and neurosis with compassion and skill. 

This is a Tibetan meditation which is a potent, dynamic practice for cutting through fear and facing death. It is a practice of healing through ultimate compassion. The practice is the Dzogchen Chod, known as Khandro Geykyang, the Laugher of the Dakinis, the concise version. Rinpoche will lead the practice and discuss its meaning. This has been a monthly practice in Virginia for the last two years on Dakini Day, but in-person Chod practices are cancelled and Pema Khandro Rinpoche will now be offering Chod practice online for the first time, in order to support Vajrayana practitioners during the worldwide pandemic.

Donations Welcome ~ No one turned away for lack of funds

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UPCOMING TEACHINGS ONLINE

May
May 27  –  Open Teaching: Buddhist Philosophy Online
May 29-31  –  Vajrayogini Retreat & Dakini Mountain Consecration


Dakini Day Chod
June 16th – Fear as a Path to Liberation
July 15th – The Five Wisdom Dakinis

DONATE  ♦  VISIT OUR WEBSITES

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Vajrayogini Retreat

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

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
Register now

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From May 29th-31st, join us in an online meditation retreat led by Pema Khandro. We will also host special guest teacher Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche who will bestow the Vajrayogini empowerment. The weekend will focus on a Buddhist meditation retreat in your own home, through an online retreat format…

► Learn More

Online Chod Meditation and Instructions on letting go of fictions and self-deception in Tibetan Chod meditation.
This is a Tibetan meditation which is a potent, dynamic practice for cutting through fear and facing death. It is a practice of healing through ultimate compassion. The practice is the Dzogchen Chod, known as Khandro Geykyang, the Laugher of the Dakinis, the concise version. Rinpoche will lead the practice and discuss its meaning. This has been a monthly practice in Virginia for the last two years on Dakini Day, but in-person Chod practices are cancelled and Pema Khandro Rinpoche will now be offering Chod practice online for the first time, in order to support Vajrayana practitioners during the worldwide pandemic.
Donations Welcome ~ No one turned away for lack of funds

► Learn More

UPCOMING TEACHINGS ONLINE

May
May 13  –  Vajrayana Training
May 17  –  Cutting Through Illusions: Dakini Day Chod
May 20  –  Ngakpa Training
May 27  –  Open Teaching: Buddhist Philosophy Online
May 27  –  Ngakpa Live
May 29-31  –  Vajrayogini Retreat & Dakini Mountain Consecration

*Our local community meditation classes in Seattle, Santa Cruz, and Richmond, California are canceled until further notice.

BUDDHIST YOGIS INFO  ♦  DONATE  ♦  VISIT OUR WEBSITES

Ngakpa.org
PemaKhandro.org
BuddhistStudiesInstitute.org
DakiniMountain.org
YogicMedicineInstitute.org

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Copyright Ⓒ 2019
Ngakpa International • PO Box 2396 • Nevada City, CA • USA

 

Letter for the Pandemic

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

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
Register now

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This is a repost of a Letter from Pema Khandro in regards to the global pandemic and questions about which practices should be done by Buddhists during this time.
For more information about current changes to the schedule visit ngakpa.org or email us info@buddhistyogis.org

 

Dear Friends and Members,

I feel sorrow with everyone who is losing loved ones, who has lost loved ones or whose loved ones are in peril. And I stand in compassion with everyone who has lost their jobs or face the uncertainty of loved ones risking their lives as essential workers.

These are not easy times. There is much letting go to do.

I hope we can remember both our vulnerability and our resilience.That sense of our vulnerability is wisdom to remember. The tenderness and empathy we feel now is to be cared for. There is a sense of the suffering of ourselves and others and this sense of our shared vulnerability. The pandemic exposes our interdependence with one another. Whatever ideologies we may have had or differences, we are all connected, all want to be free from suffering and we all face our actions and their consequences together. That sense of our interconnectedness is wisdom to remember.

We can reject the dichotomies of being overwhelmed by fear and blind in glib denials by embracing the whole situation. Disasters are a part of human life. So is resilience. Fukushima, tsunamis, earthquakes and wildfire… whatever has come for the whole history of human kind, we  face hardships, adapt and feel resilient again. Indeed we are are facing radical changes, yet we will learn and emerge in new forms. In center of this paradox, here we are with our state of mind defining the quality of our lives.

For now, we are in the bardo – the liminal space between the unknown and the known. How we are in such times is often fraught with suffering because so much of our neurosis is around avoiding uncertainty. But now uncertainty is unavoidable. Its crucial that we train to find a calm center in the face of such uncertainty.

Life is like this, change is unavoidable. And it is within change and uncertainty that only our sense of presence can remain. Therefore, this circumstance is further training.

One sane approach is to take a day by day, step by step mentality. We can focus on the things we can control and do our best to accept and adapt to the rest. To take it to a higher level, as Buddhists, our focus is to raise bodhichitta in the face of whatever comes. We let our altruistic enlightened intent soothe ourselves and others and give us something that cannot be lost.  Sometimes bodhichitta is all we have and that brings with it a profound potential for integrating with what we are.

Many people have asked me what practices they can do during these extraordinary times. There is certainly a need for cultivating serenity and relating to our experiences in the most open-hearted way possible. In that case, I suggest the following practices. They do not substitute for medical care and health practices, but I do believe they can be of great benefit to those who have a heart connection with Buddhism.  Self-care in the form of one’s spiritual practices can be so clarifying. We will need maximum clarity in the times to come.

In Buddhist meditation, our primary practices train us to relate to reality directly, in a straightforward way while remaining calm and focused, yet with perspective. We seek to see things as they are and work with them just as they are. This requires bravery, the bravery to withstand discomfort and uncertainty. For Buddhists, that bravery can be drawn from our meditation practices and rituals. They remind us of a greater purpose.

So with this in mind, here is a list of suggestions for which Buddhist practices to do during this time. Practice these methods or whatever brings you and your loved ones peace.

I hope that your spiritual practices will help to ground you and restore you through these times, and that they will be with you in all the transitions ahead.

May we find peace and comfort through these times by caring for one another.

Yours always,
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Lama Pema Khandro Rinpoche, Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism
Pema Khandro Foundation – Yogic Medicine Institute – Ngakpa International
Buddhist Studies Institute – Dakini Mountain – House of Bodhichitta – MahaSiddha Center
www.PemaKhandro.org  Email: info@BuddhistYogis.org

  1. For All Buddhists, Mantra Practice
    His Holiness Dalai Lama has suggested that we practice White Tara. Since the first Pema Khandro was an emanation of White Tara, we have a special connection to White Tara. White Tara is a female buddha who comes to our aide in pandemics, epidemics, disasters and emergencies. She represents the energy of peaceful, loving healing in times of crisis. For me, visualizing a loving mother of the buddhas washing myself and loved ones with light rays of compassion is a soothing practice, a respite from fear and stress, a lovely place to rest mind. Gyaldak Rinpoche has bestowed this empowerment numerous times at our Berkeley dharma center, so many of you have learned it already. There is an audio recording of me singing the mantra if you need it to remember the melody – my instagram handle is Dzogchen.PemaKhandro.

The Mantra is:
Om Tare Tu Tare Ture Mama Ayur Punya Jnana Pustim Kuruye Soha

2. For Vajrayana Practitioners, Chod


Severance. If you are a Chod practitioner, then I recommend Chod because it is the most powerful tool I know of for working with fear, facing death, psychologically processing illness and so much more. It was the practice used by Tibetan Buddhists during epidemics, at death, in the face of illness and obstacles. I suggest that all our members who are Chodpas practice this for themselves and their communities every day until the pandemic subsides, or at least on Dakini Day once a month. This is a useful practice because it works with the mental-emotional ‘demons’ who are riled up during these times. If you are at home and not working, you can do a four session retreat day with one feast per session. If you are working and keeping essential services going, I thank you for your bravery and service. In that case, with your shorter schedule, Chod can be the concise Chod with one feast. If you don’t know Chod you can rely on your Yidam practice.

For those of you who practice Vajrayana or Chod,
Dakini Day Chod will be online on April 17th and May 17th 1pm PST / 4pm EST
Sign up for our newsletter at ngakpa.org to see the future meeting times or visit this page.

3. For Daily Rituals, Smoke Offering


Many of you met the Nechung Oracle, Kuten-la during the many times we have hosted him in our various dharma centers. He has suggested that Vajrayana practitioners practice Sang, the smoke offering practice every day. We can offer this upon waking in the mornings. So, I suggest that if you know the Riwo Sang Cho you can practice this. Or if you want to practice the Sur & Protector Practice that we do at the end of every retreat, then that would also be suitable. Or, you may use whatever Smoke Offering practice that is part of your respective tradition. This is a worthwhile daily morning practice even when we are not in a pandemic. Going out to the fresh air at dawn to burn smoke is a lovely ritual that makes me feel more alive.

4. For Health Care Workers, Medicine Buddha


Medicine Buddha. If you are a health-care worker then I suggest Medicine Buddha practice for while you are working with your patients to promote resilience and stave off compassion fatigue. I have recently recorded some classes on this so you can listen to those online to reinforce your knowledge of how to do the practice. Learn More

Many of you who know me from public programs have received Zhine, calm abiding instructions from me as well. I suggest we all have time for Zhine every day. Fear is very taxing to our bodies so it is important to have calming practices to self-regulate. Tension and stress can be dissipated. I have been pleased to see so many free meditation classes on social media. Here is a link to a few of ours.

5. For Emotional Support, Empathy


After hearing so many stories, I have also decided that we will go ahead with our Empathy Training online since so many people need emotional support right now. This is a time when empathy skills are needed most. There is not just the stress of getting sick or avoiding getting sick. There is also interpersonal distress arising as we try to work together to address serious economic distress, family dynamics, loss of loved ones, and loss of the structure of society as we knew it. In these times, empathy is a crucial skill that can present profound relief for our loved ones and friends. I hope that this class will be of help to you.
Learn More about Empathy Training

In Closing
There is so much more to discuss, but ultimately it does all boil down to bodhichitta, the great heart of altruistic enlightened intent. From the Buddhist point of view, whatever practices we do, it is that motivation which matters most.

 

I have set aside time for us to talk about Buddhist teachings on dying, death and caring for a dying person in upcoming online classes. You can join me for those by staying tuned to our newsletter and social media channels. I pray that you have all the support your need.

 

More Reading: Pema Khandro’s Bardo Article https://www.lionsroar.com/four-points-for-letting-go-bardo/

Pema Khandro’s Article, How to Stop A Meltdown

Pema Khandro, Buddhist teachings on Illness – Carrying Illness onto the Path

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NEWS

UPCOMING TEACHINGS ONLINE

April
Apr 8   –  Vajrayana Training (Twice a month online)
Apr 13  –  Transforming Fear when Loved Ones are Dying
Apr 15  –  Ngakpa Training (Every month online)
Apr 17  –  Dakini Day Chod
Apr 22  –  Open Teaching: Buddhist Philosophy Online (Once a month online free program)
Apr 22  –  Ngakpa Live
Apr 29  –  Empathy Training

*Our local community meditation classes in Seattle, Santa Cruz, and Richmond, California are canceled until further notice.

 

Pema Khandro offers a Special Preparatory Video for all those who register for Empathy Training

Empathy Training – Online  –  NEW DATES
Wednesdays, April 29  – May 20
12pm – 2pm PST (UTC-7) Timezone Converter

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

Join the 4-week Empathy training. Learn the core skills you need to connect, be heard and be there for others.

 

 

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Transforming Fear
A Webcast to Support Your Resilience
With Pema Khandro

Do you feel stressed, anxious or afraid in light of the global pandemic? Economic stress weighing you down? You are not alone! We can’t control everything but we can regulate our reactions, to move through fear, into a state of calm, focus and preparedness. Pema Khandro will be offering a weekly class this month focused on building resilience and transforming fear in times of crisis. It will include meditation, lecture, tips for wellness and a time to connect. How to care compassionately for your anxiety & fear. Tips to practice self care and empathy, and how to be there for yourselves and others including:

  • Methods to calm down
  • Focus through Meditation
  • Alternatives to suppressing fear or being overwhelmed by fear
  • Uplift your mind while remaining realistic
  • Soothe and Uplift yourself others
  • Key components of a healthy diet
  • Building your immunity through diet, supplements
  • Reducing the impact of sickness
  • Checking in with classmates every-week to increase social support
  • If you missed the live classes, you can still watch the video series email info@BuddhistYogis.org for more details► Learn More

BUDDHIST YOGIS INFO  ♦  DONATE  ♦  VISIT OUR WEBSITES

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PemaKhandro.org
BuddhistStudiesInstitute.org
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Transforming Fear – and Other Announcements

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

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
Register now

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 A Letter from Pema Khandro & Announcements

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Dear Friends and Members Worldwide,

I pray for the health and wellness of you and all your loved ones and for everyone everywhere. Here are some announcements and heart advice.

It seems from the research I have been reading that the important thing at this time is to slow the spread of the virus by self-quarantining to stay home as much as possible. This is so that hospitals are not overwhelmed so quickly and therefore more lives could be saved. It is possible that many people will have mild symptoms, but also that everyone will have someone they know who passes away. I believe that our efforts should be to protect the vulnerable among us by remaining at home as much as possible, practicing physical distancing and washing our hands if we do go out and doing our wellness practices.

Even though “social distancing” may be practiced we don’t have to practice emotional distancing, I encourage you to call, text and email friends, loved ones, neighbors and family to stay emotionally connected and supportive during these times. See below for my post on how to show empathy to someone who is anxious.

In order to join the efforts to slow down the spread of the corona virus and offer support during these stressful times, we have made changes to our schedule.

SCHEDULE CHANGES

Empathy Training
We have moved the Empathy Training up to start one month later on April 29th. It will now be 4 weeks long and held online from 12-2pm PST (UTC-7), and recordings are available for international students.

This is so that I can offer public programs focused on Transforming Fear through meditation and insight. However, anyone who registers for the Empathy Training now, will receive a short weekly lesson until our class begins in April. So sign up if you haven’t yet and start training. There is a great need for empathy now!  Register Now

Dakini Day Chod in Virginia is canceled and will become an online class in April.

I will be offering a weekly public class online to offer Buddhist resources to promote calm, focus, empathy and resilience. Starting with this Saturday’s Medicine Buddha Webcast, March 21st, from 10-11am PST (UTC-7). Medicine Buddha is a practice for anyone who is suffering, sick, or injured. Register Now

Then beginning Monday night March 23rd – April 13, every week for a month I will offer a Transforming Fear class. Register Now

These classes are free, they will include meditation, a short lecture, dialogue and our Yogic Medicine Institute faculty will also recommend natural health practices as well. Donations are optional and will go towards helping us continue to make these classes available.

OPEN TEACHINGS ONLINE

March
Mar 21  –  Medicine Buddha Webcast 
Mar 23  –  Transforming Fear
Mar 25  –  Dakini Day Chod in Virginia – cancelled
Mar 25  –  Buddhist Philosophy Online

April
Apr 1 & 8  –  Vajrayana Training as scheduled
Apr 17  –  Dakini Day Chod
Apr 22 –   Buddhist Philosophy Online
Apr 29  –  Empathy Training

Our online shedra, the Ngakpa Training classes will also continue on 3rd and 4th Wednesdays as scheduled. These classes require prerequisites, students must pass exams to enter.

Also, our local community meditation classes in Seattle, Santa Cruz, and Richmond, California are all cancelled until further notice.

Social distancing + Giving Love

We can all get through this together, this is a perfect time to train in altruistic action. Altruistic acts will help to calm fears and promote your sense of agency. Greater agency often translates to less post traumatic stress. We can take actions to care for one another. We can create new networks and strengthen the ones we have. Rich networks are essential for our survival and contentment, it is a good thing that can come from this intense time. Start with a simple, “How are you doing?” text to a few friends each day, this would be a good practice. And don’t worry if the answer is filled with stress. Here is my post on how to show empathy to someone who is anxious:

How to Comfort Someone who is Anxious: Listen. Let them talk. Say “tell me more,” or ask questions until their feelings make sense to you. Let there be silences, let them take their time. Don’t try to dismiss their feelings (no gaslighting). Don’t try to fix them. Don’t try to talk them out of it. Let them know if there are things they are saying that you do understand, “Oh that would be hard,” “Oh that’s tough.” “Yeah I see that.” Ask questions about things you don’t understand. Assume that their feelings make sense, so keep listening and asking questions until you the feelings make sense to you. Listen until they are done talking. “Is there more?” If this is uncomfortable for you, make sure to do deep breathing while you are listening. If you mess it up this time, don’t worry, you will do better next time. Empathy can be learned. Even botched empathy attempts can still benefit others and yourself. And remember empathy can improve immunity according to research (See Yang et al. 2018), so it’s a worthwhile effort for your health.

Wishing you best health,
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Medicine Buddha Webcast
March 21st, 10-11am PST (UTC-7)

This class is being offered by donation, co-sponsored by Ngakpa International and the Yogic Medicine Institute. Help us keep this program going through your generous contribution.

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Transforming Fear
A Webcast to Support Your Resilience
With Pema Khandro

Do you feel stressed, anxious or afraid in light of the global pandemic? Economic stress weighing you down? You are not alone! We can’t control everything but we can regulate our reactions, to move through fear, into a state of calm, focus and preparedness. Pema Khandro will be offering a weekly class this month focused on building resilience and transforming fear in times of crisis. It will include meditation, lecture, tips for wellness and a time to connect. How to care compassionately for your anxiety & fear. Tips to practice self care and empathy, and how to be there for yourselves and others including:

  • Methods to calm down
  • Focus through Meditation
  • Alternatives to suppressing fear or being overwhelmed by fear
  • Uplift your mind while remaining realistic
  • Soothe and Uplift yourself others
  • Key components of a healthy diet
  • Building your immunity through diet, supplements
  • Reducing the impact of sickness
  • Checking in with classmates every-week to increase social support

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Empathy Training – Online  –  NEW DATES
Wednesdays, April 29  – May 20
12pm – 2pm PST (UTC-7) Timezone Converter

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

Join the 4-week Empathy training. Learn the core skills you need to connect, be heard and be there for others.

*** We have adjusted the Empathy Training to be 2 hours per meeting for four weeks instead of 1 hour per meeting for eight weeks. In light of the COVID-19 Pandemic, our schedule changed. Thank you for your understanding. We hope this new schedule will make it easier for you to attend. Attend live or watch recordings at your own pace.

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Buddhist Philosophy Online: Excellent Path to Enlightenment

4th Wednesdays of Each Month
Online

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

► Learn More

2020 Certification Trainings
Live and Online – Starts in August

Panchakarma Technician Certification
Ayurvedic Health Counselor Certification

Get on the List for More Info

Dakini Mountain

Dakini Mountain Grand Opening & Retreat

WAS PREVIOUSLY SCHEDULED:
Retreat with Pema Khandro:  May 29 – Jun 2, 2020
Grand Opening Ceremony and Celebration:  May 31st, 2020

WE WILL RE-ASSESS PLANS IN MID-APRIL
We had planned our grand opening and retreat for these dates, however, in light of the efforts to slow the spread of the Coronavirus, we will be reassessing our plans mid-April.

Donate Now for the development of Dakini Mountain

 

Volunteer

Share your Gifts and Heart of Service
We need your help!  Contact Volunteer@BuddhistYogis.org

1. Fundraising Professional – Seeking an experienced fundraiser to help with strategy and development of short and longterm fundraising.

2. Admin Assistant  –  Seeking several people with administrative skills to help with projects of Ngakpa International, Pema Khandro, Dakini Mountain and the Yogic Medicine Institute.

3. Website Manager  –  Seeking someone with strong experience using and editing WordPress websites. Savvy technology skills and experience with Memberpress and LearnDash is a major plus!

4. Video Editors  –  Seeking 2 more video editors for the development on Online dharma courses and trainings.

5. Social Media Whiz  –  Seeking several people to help spread the word about all of Ngakpa Intl’s projects, trainings and retreats.

 

BUDDHIST YOGIS INFO  ♦  DONATE  ♦  VISIT OUR WEBSITES

Ngakpa.org
PemaKhandro.org
BuddhistYogis.org
DakiniMountain.org
YogicMedicineInstitute.org

share

Copyright Ⓒ 2019
Ngakpa International • PO Box 2396 • Nevada City, CA • USA

Happy Losar – Tibetan New Year!

Upcoming Events

Bardo Teachings – Self Paced Course

With Pema Khandro, Father Francis Tiso, Lama Lhanang Rinpoche, Chagdud Khadro, Shugen Roshi, Julie Rogers, Jim Tucker, M.D., Koshin Paley Ellison and Dr. William McGrath

Open Dates
Teachings on Death and Dying Facing realities of dying, death, and grief are central to our human experience. This program offers practical instructions for helping others in the process of dying and an overview of essential knowledge on death, bardo, and rebirth. This includes self-paced lectures on dying, loss, grief, and illness from Lamas and scholars of Buddhist Studies.   Support the Buddhist Studies Institute by donating for these precious teachings. Your contribution, big and small, helps makes in-depth Buddhist training and education more accessible for all. May the teachings spread and flourish!
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

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
Register now

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Dear Friends,

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

Losar Tashi Delek!
Happy Lunar New Year!

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

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

2020 Year at a Glance

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

► Learn More
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Meditation Instructor Training – Online

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

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

► Learn More
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Buddhist Philosophy Online: Excellent Path to Enlightenment

4th Wednesdays of Each Month
Online

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

► Learn More

2020 Certification Trainings
Live and Online – Starts in August

Panchakarma Technician Certification
Ayurvedic Health Counselor Certification

Get on the List for More Info
Meditation Mondays
Online Meditation & Discussion Groups

6:00pm PT with Janak Kimmel

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

Presence as the Path is Open to All Members
Dakini Mountain

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

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

Donate Now for the development of Dakini Mountain
Volunteer

Share your Gifts and Heart of Service
We need your help!  Contact Volunteer@BuddhistYogis.org

1. Fundraising Professional – Seeking an experienced fundraiser to help with strategy and development of short and longterm fundraising.

2. Admin Assistant  –  Seeking several people with administrative skills to help with projects of Ngakpa International, Pema Khandro, Dakini Mountain and the Yogic Medicine Institute.

3. Website Manager  –  Seeking someone with strong experience using and editing WordPress websites. Savvy technology skills and experience with Memberpress and LearnDash is a major plus!

4. Video Editors  –  Seeking 2 more video editors for the development on Online dharma courses and trainings.

5. Social Media Whiz  –  Seeking several people to help spread the word about all of Ngakpa Intl’s projects, trainings and retreats.

BUDDHIST YOGIS INFO  ♦  DONATE  ♦  VISIT OUR WEBSITES

Ngakpa.org
PemaKhandro.org
BuddhistYogis.org
DakiniMountain.org
YogicMedicineInstitute.org

share

Copyright Ⓒ 2019
Ngakpa International • PO Box 2396 • Nevada City, CA • USA

 

2020 Calendar of Events

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

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
Register now

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

1st  Wed  –  Vajrayana Training
2nd Wed  –  Vajrayana Training
3rd  Wed  –  Ngakpa Seminary at 6pm and 4th Wed at 6:45pm
4th  Wed  –  Buddhist Philosophy Online – Free Open Teaching
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2020 Year at a Glance

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

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

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

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

COMMUNITY PRACTICE
Feb 18  –  Dakini Day Chod Practice with Pema Khandro, Virginia
Feb 21  –  Losar Vajrakilaya Practice with Janak Kimmel, Penn Valley
Mar 18  –  Dakini Day Chod Practice with Pema Khandro, Virginia
Apr 17  –  Dakini Day Chod Practice with Pema Khandro, Virginia

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

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

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

► Learn More
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Meditation Instructor Training – Online

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

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

► Learn More
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Buddhist Philosophy Online: Excellent Path to Enlightenment

4th Wednesdays of Each Month
Online

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

► Learn More

2020 Certification Trainings
Live and Online – Starts in August

Panchakarma Technician Certification
Ayurvedic Health Counselor Certification

Get on the List for More Info
2019w_Janak_Kimmel_BuddhistYogis
Meditation Mondays
Online Meditation & Discussion Groups

6:00pm PT with Janak Kimmel

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

Presence as the Path is Open to All Members
Dakini Mountain

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

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

Donate Now for the development of Dakini Mountain
Volunteer

Share your Gifts and Heart of Service
We need your help!  Contact Volunteer@BuddhistYogis.org

1. Fundraising Professional – Seeking an experienced fundraiser to help with strategy and development of short and longterm fundraising.

2. Admin Assistant  –  Seeking several people with administrative skills to help with projects of Ngakpa International, Pema Khandro, Dakini Mountain and the Yogic Medicine Institute.

3. Researcher / Writer  –  Seeking 2 people to research and create posts about the lives and history of the Ngakpas for a new section of www.Ngakpa.org

4. Website Manager  –  Seeking someone with strong experience using and editing WordPress websites. Savvy technology skills and experience with Memberpress and LearnDash is a major plus!

5. Video Editor  –  Seeking 2 more video editors for the development on Online dharma courses and trainings.

6. Social Media Whiz  –  Seeking several people to help spread the word about all of Ngakpa Intl’s projects, trainings and retreats.

BUDDHIST YOGIS INFO  ♦  DONATE  ♦  VISIT OUR WEBSITES

Ngakpa.org
PemaKhandro.org
BuddhistYogis.org
DakiniMountain.org
YogicMedicineInstitute.org

share

Copyright Ⓒ 2019
Ngakpa International • PO Box 2396 • Nevada City, CA • USA

 

Pema Khandro Online – Tonight

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

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
Register now

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Buddhist Philosophy Online: Open Teaching with Pema Khandro

Tonight at 6pm PT

Open Teaching with Pema Khandro: Excellent Path to Enlightenment

A 30 minute guided meditation and online teaching with Pema Khandro. Free and open to the public.

This is a monthly class to support your meditation practice and meet the challenge of integrating  meditation into a full, dynamic life. This class will include meditation instruction, Buddhist teachings on the text “Excellent Path to Enlightenment”, and remedies for navigating through challenges to practice.

To help support busy Buddhist Yogis in keeping a regular practice, Open Program Meditation Class is held with Pema Khandro every fourth Wednesday of the month at 6pm-6:30pm PT / 9pm-9:30pm ET.

A link for the class will be sent to your email box 24 hours before the event and again 1 hour before the start time.

Click Here to Register for this Webinar

BUDDHIST YOGIS INFO  ♦  DONATE  ♦  VISIT OUR WEBSITES

Ngakpa.org
PemaKhandro.org
BuddhistYogis.org
DakiniMountain.org
YogicMedicineInstitute.org

Copyright Ⓒ 2019
Ngakpa International • PO Box 2396 • Nevada City, CA • USA

 

Contact

Email: info@BuddhistYogis.org