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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

Cutting Through Fear: Dzogchen Chod Retreat

With Pema Khandro

May 28 - June 1, 2025
May 28 - June 1 San Diego and Online In a world beset with fear, profound methods are needed to reclaim intrinsic wisdom and awaken innate courage. Join Pema Khandro and the Buddhist Studies institute for a contemplation of fierce compassion through the annual Chod retreat, Troma Nagmo teachings, and an optional five month Comprehensive Chod intensive training to follow. Chod is the profound method of psychological transformation in esoteric Buddhism. Chod means cutting, referring to cutting through the fictions that cause fear, anxiety, and hesitations in one’s life.    
Register now

Fierce Compassion: Comprehensive Chod Training

With Pema Khandro

June 9 - October 13, 2025
Embark on a transformative five-month journey into the heart of Dzogchen Chod with Tulku Pema Khandro, Ph.D. and the Buddhist Studies Institute. This comprehensive Chod training offers a rare opportunity for an in-depth immersion in the Dzogchen Chod system, Healing Chod, and the Secret Black Dakini Teachings. Take your Chod practice to the next level and cultivate fierce compassion and psychological transformation while studying the Tibetan tradition.
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

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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

Cutting Through Fear: Dzogchen Chod Retreat

With Pema Khandro

May 28 - June 1, 2025
May 28 - June 1 San Diego and Online In a world beset with fear, profound methods are needed to reclaim intrinsic wisdom and awaken innate courage. Join Pema Khandro and the Buddhist Studies institute for a contemplation of fierce compassion through the annual Chod retreat, Troma Nagmo teachings, and an optional five month Comprehensive Chod intensive training to follow. Chod is the profound method of psychological transformation in esoteric Buddhism. Chod means cutting, referring to cutting through the fictions that cause fear, anxiety, and hesitations in one’s life.    
Register now

Fierce Compassion: Comprehensive Chod Training

With Pema Khandro

June 9 - October 13, 2025
Embark on a transformative five-month journey into the heart of Dzogchen Chod with Tulku Pema Khandro, Ph.D. and the Buddhist Studies Institute. This comprehensive Chod training offers a rare opportunity for an in-depth immersion in the Dzogchen Chod system, Healing Chod, and the Secret Black Dakini Teachings. Take your Chod practice to the next level and cultivate fierce compassion and psychological transformation while studying the Tibetan tradition.
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
2018B_PemaKhandro_OpenTeaching_Ngakpa

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
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Meditation Mondays
Online Meditation & Discussion Groups

6:00pm PT with Janak Kimmel

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

Presence as the Path is Open to All Members
Dakini Mountain

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

Cutting Through Fear: Dzogchen Chod Retreat

With Pema Khandro

May 28 - June 1, 2025
May 28 - June 1 San Diego and Online In a world beset with fear, profound methods are needed to reclaim intrinsic wisdom and awaken innate courage. Join Pema Khandro and the Buddhist Studies institute for a contemplation of fierce compassion through the annual Chod retreat, Troma Nagmo teachings, and an optional five month Comprehensive Chod intensive training to follow. Chod is the profound method of psychological transformation in esoteric Buddhism. Chod means cutting, referring to cutting through the fictions that cause fear, anxiety, and hesitations in one’s life.    
Register now

Fierce Compassion: Comprehensive Chod Training

With Pema Khandro

June 9 - October 13, 2025
Embark on a transformative five-month journey into the heart of Dzogchen Chod with Tulku Pema Khandro, Ph.D. and the Buddhist Studies Institute. This comprehensive Chod training offers a rare opportunity for an in-depth immersion in the Dzogchen Chod system, Healing Chod, and the Secret Black Dakini Teachings. Take your Chod practice to the next level and cultivate fierce compassion and psychological transformation while studying the Tibetan tradition.
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

 

New Years Message 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

Cutting Through Fear: Dzogchen Chod Retreat

With Pema Khandro

May 28 - June 1, 2025
May 28 - June 1 San Diego and Online In a world beset with fear, profound methods are needed to reclaim intrinsic wisdom and awaken innate courage. Join Pema Khandro and the Buddhist Studies institute for a contemplation of fierce compassion through the annual Chod retreat, Troma Nagmo teachings, and an optional five month Comprehensive Chod intensive training to follow. Chod is the profound method of psychological transformation in esoteric Buddhism. Chod means cutting, referring to cutting through the fictions that cause fear, anxiety, and hesitations in one’s life.    
Register now

Fierce Compassion: Comprehensive Chod Training

With Pema Khandro

June 9 - October 13, 2025
Embark on a transformative five-month journey into the heart of Dzogchen Chod with Tulku Pema Khandro, Ph.D. and the Buddhist Studies Institute. This comprehensive Chod training offers a rare opportunity for an in-depth immersion in the Dzogchen Chod system, Healing Chod, and the Secret Black Dakini Teachings. Take your Chod practice to the next level and cultivate fierce compassion and psychological transformation while studying the Tibetan tradition.
Register now

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Dear Friends, Members and Students,

Thank you for a decade of love, practice, service and study. It has been such an honor to study and practice together. Thank you for supporting the Ngakpa International projects including the Yogic Medicine Institute, the MahaSiddha Center, Ngakpa House, House of Bodhichitta and Khandro Ling. A heartfelt thank you to my students and friends who have donated to support my Lama activities. And most especially thank you for those of you who have donated to our Dakini Mountain fundraiser – thanks to you the dream is in reach. Your support has also ushered in a new era – the era of Dakini Mountain. I am overjoyed to be planning our grand opening and am holding high aspirations for the benefit that can be offered there.

Enclosed is an excerpt for you from the text we are studying in the monthly online class, the text from Longchenpa, Excellent Path to Enlightenment. This is its seventy ninth instruction. It expresses the path to happiness – stepping out of self-absorption into altruistic enlightened intent, also known in Sanskrit as, bodhichitta.

May you have calm and courage, good fortune and wisdom in all the times to come. May we meet again (and again) at Dakini Mountain.

Yours always,
Pema Khandro

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When you enter the house of a bodhisattva, give rise to the mind of bodhichitta, thinking, “May all sentient beings enter the city of liberation.”

When you go to sleep, think, “May all beings obtain the dharmakaya buddha.”

When dreaming dreams, think, “May all beings realize all phenomena to be like dreams.”

When tightening your belt, think, “May all beings be connected to the root of virtue.”

When sitting down, think, “May all obtain the vajra seat.”

When lighting a fire, think, “May the firewood of the kleshas be consumed.”

When a  fire is blazing, think, “May the fire of wisdom blaze.”

When cooking a meal think, “May all obtain the amrita of wisdom.”

When eating food, think, “May all be nourished by the food of meditation.”

When placing your foot down, think, “May I go for the benefit of beings.”

When lifting your foot up, think, “May all beings be lifted from suffering.”

When seeing suffering, think, “May all the suffering of sentient beings be pacified.”

When seeing those who are happy, think, “May all obtain the happiness of enlightenment.”

Excerpted from Excellent Path to Enlightenment, by Longchen Rabjam. Translation by Khenpo Gawang Rinpoche and Gerry Wiener

Celebrating Our
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Thank you for your continued support in 2019!

Because of you, Ngakpa International continues to offer in-depth Buddhist Education worldwide. Thanks to you we were able to offer:       

  • 261 Programs in 2019. This was 44 more programs than in 2018, 124 more than in 2017, and 147 more than 2016!
  • We served 1,076 Participants and 75 Members.
  • We offered 161 Free Classes and we gave $20,931 of Financial Aid to those with financial hardship.

This was also another year of training leaders, teachers, counselors, doctors and health professionals. We offered our online Meditation Instructor Training as well as Group Leader Training. Public classes were offered in Nevada City, Seattle, Richmond, Santa Cruz, San Diego, Charlottesville, and Online, as well as Sydney Australia.

We are still raising funds to get permits for Dakini Mountain so we can hold public events there. But already, in 2019, we offered our first member Retreats at Dakini Mountain, including The 100,000 Dakinis Retreat, the Radiance Retreat, and our Annual Dzogchen Retreat. We also offered over 2 months of intensive healing retreats at Dakini Mountain healing center.

We hosted His Eminence Gyaldak Rinpoche at our Retreats and centers in Richmond, California and for the land blessing at Dakini Mountain.

Also in 2019, Pema Khandro Rinpoche continued to be published in Lion’s Roar magazine and Buddhadharma Magazine, with her articles featured on LionsRoar.com.  Her touching article opened the groundbreaking first all-women’s issue of Buddhadharma quarterly, Read it her, Hear Our Voices, Pema Khandro. Here article on kindness and the body was also featured his year, Be Kind to Yourself by Pema Khandro and her article on Meditation offered a potent description of why Buddhists meditate, read the article here –You are Caught in a Dream, Wake up, by Pema Khandro. Finally there was the fascinating forum which included Pema Khandro, a discussion with Buddhist teachers about the teacher-student relationship, you can read the article by clicking here – Is the Guru Model Broken?

Pema Khandro Rinpoche has BuddhistYogis_PemaKhandro_72dp continued to offer us extraordinary access to in-depth training and education in esoteric Buddhist philosophy, Vajrayana and Dzogchen. Through Vajrayana Training and Ngakpa Seminary she has guided students in a classical Buddhist intellectual education while also offering retreats to give ongoing training in the meditation practices of the Buddhist Yogis. This summer’s annual Dzogchen residential retreat at Dakini Mountain and Vajrayana Retreat at Khandro Ling Virginia were major successes with serious practice, much peace and joy.

In pursuit of our commitment to support wellness in body and mind, we led our signature Detoxification and Cleansing Retreats Dakini Mountain.

Meanwhile our local leaders led regular Meditation Classes in five cities.

We also hosted three retreats at Khandro Ling in Charlottesville, Virginia.

This has all been possible due to the massive effort, ceaseless teaching, and tireless generosity of our beloved teacher, Pema Khandro.

But she cannot do this alone – now, more than ever, she needs your help. We have acquired Dakini Mountain, and your participation and support and donations are needed to realize the next phase of this dream!

Our current needs are:

$6000 – 2019 Lodge and Facilities Upgrades including shower and plumbing.

$7,500 – Installation of Vajrayogini statue and temporary shrine to celebrate the feminine in Buddhism and foster the ideals of gender equality, harmony and compassion. This is the first stage of our plan to build a stupa.

$15,000 – Fire Clearing.  Northern California is a very high fire risk zone.  Brush clearing must be extensive and maintained to protect all structures.

$36,600 – Annual Insurance, Property Tax, and Propane Fees.

$40,000 – Government Use Permits.  Local government laws and ordinances require a comprehensive permitting process.

$79,600 – We need a guest cabin for teachers to come lead events including Pema Khandro, guest Lamas, other teachers and guests.

$69,000 – Our yearly fundraising for other infrastructure expenses for the 2019-2020 classes and retreats including website development and hosting, online meeting costs, accounting, printing, and other insurance needs.

$100,000 – Solar System Upgrade.  Dakini Mountain is dedicated to ecological sustainability – therefore it is completely off the grid. We have solar power now but we need to double the capacity of the current system for hosting larger groups.

“Dakini Mountain is the place
where we encounter our intrinsic wisdom.”
~Pema Khandro

You may make a one-time gift and you may also give monthly by being a Member. And for those of you have donated before, for this we heartily THANK YOU! We hope you will consider making a New Year Donation toward Dakini Mountain.

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May we Meet at Dakini Mountain!

Ngakpa Intl is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. All donations are

Tax Deductible. Federal Tax Id# 68-0529687.
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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

 

Solstice Webcast with 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

Cutting Through Fear: Dzogchen Chod Retreat

With Pema Khandro

May 28 - June 1, 2025
May 28 - June 1 San Diego and Online In a world beset with fear, profound methods are needed to reclaim intrinsic wisdom and awaken innate courage. Join Pema Khandro and the Buddhist Studies institute for a contemplation of fierce compassion through the annual Chod retreat, Troma Nagmo teachings, and an optional five month Comprehensive Chod intensive training to follow. Chod is the profound method of psychological transformation in esoteric Buddhism. Chod means cutting, referring to cutting through the fictions that cause fear, anxiety, and hesitations in one’s life.    
Register now

Fierce Compassion: Comprehensive Chod Training

With Pema Khandro

June 9 - October 13, 2025
Embark on a transformative five-month journey into the heart of Dzogchen Chod with Tulku Pema Khandro, Ph.D. and the Buddhist Studies Institute. This comprehensive Chod training offers a rare opportunity for an in-depth immersion in the Dzogchen Chod system, Healing Chod, and the Secret Black Dakini Teachings. Take your Chod practice to the next level and cultivate fierce compassion and psychological transformation while studying the Tibetan tradition.
Register now

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The Dakini Principle
Live Webcast with Pema Khandro Rinpoche

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Sunday, Dec 22nd
7pm (UTC-7)

Please join us for a live webcast on “The Dakini Principle” with Pema Khandro Rinpoche. This webcast will include meditation, teaching and inspiration – a solstice offering as part of Ngakpa International’s end of year fundraiser for Dakini Mountain Retreat Center.  Join live from anywhere, or register and watch the recording later!

Click Here to Register Now

All proceeds benefit the building of Dakini Mountain Retreat Center and Ngakpa International non-profit school of Buddhism.

Our Goal is to raise $5000 during Rinpoche’s Birthday week, which will culminate in a solstice celebration and evening of inspiration and community. All friends and Members are invited to join us for this festive occasion! Join Online, Live in Nevada City, or watch the recording later.

This inspirational semi-formal evening will include a Live Webcast with Pema Khandro Rinpoche, Live Music with the songstress Marya Stark, Buddhist Art Show and Thangka Sale brought to us from the Lotus Gallery in Nepal.

December 22nd, 5:30pm – 9pm
Inner Path – 200 Commercial Street, Nevada City, CA

SCHEDULE
*5:30pm – VIP Pre-Party
7pm – Webcast with Pema Khandro Rinpoche
8pm – Live Music with Marya Stark
9pm – Thangka Sale Closes

Click Here to Register or to Learn More

For those who cannot attend the webcast or event but wish to support Pema Khandro’s birthday wish, Ngakpa International and Dakini Mountain Fundraising, Please Click Here to Donate Now
Dakini Mountain Grand Opening_May 31 2020

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

 

Join Us in Nevada City this Sunday!

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

Cutting Through Fear: Dzogchen Chod Retreat

With Pema Khandro

May 28 - June 1, 2025
May 28 - June 1 San Diego and Online In a world beset with fear, profound methods are needed to reclaim intrinsic wisdom and awaken innate courage. Join Pema Khandro and the Buddhist Studies institute for a contemplation of fierce compassion through the annual Chod retreat, Troma Nagmo teachings, and an optional five month Comprehensive Chod intensive training to follow. Chod is the profound method of psychological transformation in esoteric Buddhism. Chod means cutting, referring to cutting through the fictions that cause fear, anxiety, and hesitations in one’s life.    
Register now

Fierce Compassion: Comprehensive Chod Training

With Pema Khandro

June 9 - October 13, 2025
Embark on a transformative five-month journey into the heart of Dzogchen Chod with Tulku Pema Khandro, Ph.D. and the Buddhist Studies Institute. This comprehensive Chod training offers a rare opportunity for an in-depth immersion in the Dzogchen Chod system, Healing Chod, and the Secret Black Dakini Teachings. Take your Chod practice to the next level and cultivate fierce compassion and psychological transformation while studying the Tibetan tradition.
Register now

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Dear Members and Local Friends,

Please join us for a lovely celebration this coming Sunday evening, December 22nd in festive downtown Nevada City!

We are celebrating Pema Khandro Rinpoche’s birthday all week, and gratitude for her life, her teachings, and her contribution to this world, by raising the next $5000 towards her Vision for Dakini Mountain and Ngakpa International.
Click here to Donate Now

Her birthday week will culminate in a solstice celebration and evening of inspiration and community in Nevada City, California. All friends and Members are invited to join us for this festive occasion!
Click here to Register Now

The Lotus Gallery in Nepal is offering a Buddhist Art show and Thangka Sale with profits benfitting Dakini Mountain. Here is a taste of just of a few of the exquisite thangkas that will be available.

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This inspirational semi-formal evening will include a Live Webcast with Pema Khandro Rinpoche, Live Music with the songstress Marya Stark, Buddhist Art Show and Thangka Sale brought to us from the Lotus Gallery in Nepal.

December 22nd, 5:30pm – 9pm
Inner Path – 200 Commercial Street, Nevada City, CA

SCHEDULE
*5:30pm – VIP Pre-Party
7pm – Webcast with Pema Khandro Rinpoche
8pm – Live Music with Marya Stark
9pm – Thangka Sale Closes

Click Here to Register or to Learn More

For those who cannot attend the event but wish to support Pema Khandro’s birthday wish, Ngakpa International and Dakini Mountain Fundraising, Please Click Here to Donate Now
Dakini Mountain Grand Opening_May 31 2020

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

 

Today is Rinpoche’s Birthday!

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

Cutting Through Fear: Dzogchen Chod Retreat

With Pema Khandro

May 28 - June 1, 2025
May 28 - June 1 San Diego and Online In a world beset with fear, profound methods are needed to reclaim intrinsic wisdom and awaken innate courage. Join Pema Khandro and the Buddhist Studies institute for a contemplation of fierce compassion through the annual Chod retreat, Troma Nagmo teachings, and an optional five month Comprehensive Chod intensive training to follow. Chod is the profound method of psychological transformation in esoteric Buddhism. Chod means cutting, referring to cutting through the fictions that cause fear, anxiety, and hesitations in one’s life.    
Register now

Fierce Compassion: Comprehensive Chod Training

With Pema Khandro

June 9 - October 13, 2025
Embark on a transformative five-month journey into the heart of Dzogchen Chod with Tulku Pema Khandro, Ph.D. and the Buddhist Studies Institute. This comprehensive Chod training offers a rare opportunity for an in-depth immersion in the Dzogchen Chod system, Healing Chod, and the Secret Black Dakini Teachings. Take your Chod practice to the next level and cultivate fierce compassion and psychological transformation while studying the Tibetan tradition.
Register now

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Today we have the great honor and good fortune to wish Pema Khandro Rinpoche our happiest birthday wishes and gratitude for her life, her teachings, and her contribution to this world.

Every year, the Members of Ngakpa International join together and offer 24 hours of Rinpoche’s Long Life Wish Prayer.  We invite you to join us in this joyous offering.

Click Here to Read Pema Khandro Rinpoche’s Long Life Prayer

Every year, Rinpoche expresses her birthday wish – that Dakini Mountain and Ngakpa International could continue to be supported so that Buddhism may flourish in North America and beyond.

If you would like to offer Rinpoche a birthday gift, she requests all offerings be in support of the Dakini Mountain fundraiser.

Click here to Donate Now for Pema Khandro Rinpoche’s Birthday

Our Goal is to raise $5000 for Rinpoche’s Birthday, by the coming Solstice & Dakini Day, December 21st. Please help us honor Pema Khandro Rinpoche’s birth and life with Long Life Prayers and offerings of support for her beautiful vision.

This birthday week will culminate in a solstice celebration and evening of inspiration and community in Nevada City, California. All friends and Members are invited to join us for this festive occasion! Click here to Register Now

This inspirational semi-formal evening will include a Live Webcast with Pema Khandro Rinpoche, Live Music with the songstress Marya Stark, Buddhist Art Show and Thangka Sale brought to us from the Lotus Gallery in Nepal.

December 22nd, 5:30pm – 9pm
Inner Path – 200 Commercial Street, Nevada City, CA

SCHEDULE
5:30pm – VIP Pre-Party
7pm – Webcast with Pema Khandro Rinpoche
8pm – Live Music with Marya Stark
9pm – Thangka Sale Closes

Click Here to Register or to Learn More

For those who cannot attend the event but wish to support Pema Khandro’s birthday wish, Ngakpa International and Dakini Mountain Fundraising, Please Click Here to Donate Now
Dakini Mountain Grand Opening_May 31 2020

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

 

What does the name Dakini Mountain mean?

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

Cutting Through Fear: Dzogchen Chod Retreat

With Pema Khandro

May 28 - June 1, 2025
May 28 - June 1 San Diego and Online In a world beset with fear, profound methods are needed to reclaim intrinsic wisdom and awaken innate courage. Join Pema Khandro and the Buddhist Studies institute for a contemplation of fierce compassion through the annual Chod retreat, Troma Nagmo teachings, and an optional five month Comprehensive Chod intensive training to follow. Chod is the profound method of psychological transformation in esoteric Buddhism. Chod means cutting, referring to cutting through the fictions that cause fear, anxiety, and hesitations in one’s life.    
Register now

Fierce Compassion: Comprehensive Chod Training

With Pema Khandro

June 9 - October 13, 2025
Embark on a transformative five-month journey into the heart of Dzogchen Chod with Tulku Pema Khandro, Ph.D. and the Buddhist Studies Institute. This comprehensive Chod training offers a rare opportunity for an in-depth immersion in the Dzogchen Chod system, Healing Chod, and the Secret Black Dakini Teachings. Take your Chod practice to the next level and cultivate fierce compassion and psychological transformation while studying the Tibetan tradition.
Register now

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What is the “Dakini” in Dakini Mountain?

Pema Khandro discusses the 5 Dakini’s as the Five Elements in Nature during the interview clip below. Click Here to watch the video. Today is Giving Tuesday – please Donate Now!

Dakini Mountain is our budding new Retreat Center in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Northern California. We purchased Dakini Mountain this year in February of 2019 and we plan for a grand opening May 31st, 2020.

Will you come to Dakini Mountain this year? We hope so because Dakini Mountain is an experience of pristine beauty and serenity. Come experiene it for yourself! Dakini Mountain is a power spot of Vajrayogini, devoted to Gender Equality.

WHAT DOES THE NAME DAKINI MOUNTAIN MEAN?

Dakini is the principle of enlightened energy in the phenomenal world.

It is the beauty of the natural elements which evoke joy, clarity, dignity, fearlessness, and peace.  Dakini energy appears as the fundamental goodness of the five wisdoms underlying our own emotions. It also appears as the natural wisdom in our environment.

The Dakini is also the initiatory principle in Tibetan Buddhism.
It represents enlightenment being revealed in the least expected forms. As such, it is the ultimate affirmation of the buddha-nature in every person.

Dakini has other meanings as well.

The Dakini is associated with feminine enlightened wisdom. We are in the time when gender inclusivity is achieving unprecedented manifestations in Buddhism, with more women involved in every level of training and leadership. After many thousands of years of patriarchal cultures all over the world relegating women to secondary, subordinated status, a new era is dawning.

Dakini Mountain is devoted to expressing Buddhism in its highest potential, as an affirmation of the dignity of all beings. This is the Dakini principle at its heights – the affirmation of the intrinsic goodness of all beings is being ‘hoisted as a flag, ’ that awakens us all to our natural wisdom.

Click Here to Donate Now

Fundraising for Phase 2 of building infrastructure at Dakini Mountain has begun.  Phase 2 includes building an additional structure to house guest teachers for events and building a small temple to house a new VajraYogini statue until the stupa is built. This Vajrayogini statue will be consecrated at Dakini Mountain during our Grand Opening May 31st, 2020, we hope you will join us. But first we must fundraise to get there!

Please offer your financial support for this worthy project! No donation is too small. We request small and large donations as well as repeat donations to make Dakini Mountain a dream come true!  Please go to GoFundMe, Dakini Mountain Fundraiser and make a difference to bring the Buddhist values of peace, harmony and compassion into this world.

Special Gift – Vajrayogini Print

The unique Vajrayogini pictured here is currently residing at Dakini Mountain.

For gifts of $5000 and above, donors will receive a print replica of this rare and beautiful Vajrayogini painting.

Please donate now at:
www.GoFundMe.com/f/dakini-mountain-fundraiser

Or mail a check to:
Ngakpa International
PO Box 2396
Nevada City, California 95959

Click Here to Donate Now
All of your donations are Tax Deductible

Ngakpa International is a 501 c (3) non-profit organization
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Shoreline, Washington
Sun Dec 15th, 10am – 1pm
Join us for a morning of restoration and rejuvenation. Offering a Bliss yoga class and guided meditation, followed by Golden Chai and brunch. One hundred percent of proceeds will be donated to the Buddhist Yogi’s Dakini Mountain project. Creating an off-grid retreat center for the respite and refuge for anyone to discover the presence of natural peace.
$50 Donation. Please call or email to pre-register, due to limited space. Contact Kundini: kundini@buddhistyogis.org or 206-588-9275

Santa Cruz, California
Sat Dec 15th, 6-10pm
The Santa Cruz community of Buddhist Yogis invites you to a special fundraising event for its beautiful new retreat center, Dakini Mountain, located in the pristine, Tahoe National Forest.  The evening will include candlelight meditation, sharing an organic, vegetarian meal, as well as time for mingling with sangha and friends.  This night we will share the many important reasons we are collecting donations to support the flourishing of this important Buddhist retreat center dedicated to gender equality, sustainability, and Dharma practice.  Please join us, we look forward to seeing you there!
$35 Donation. Contact De’dzin to RSVP:  dedzin.drolma@gmail.com. All proceeds go directly to the Dakini Mountain fundraising project.

Dakini Mountain – Nevada City, California
December 22nd, 6-9pm
All friends and Members of Ngakpa International are cordially invited to a Soulstice Celebration and Charity Benefit for Dakini Mountain Retreat Center – an inspirational semi-formal evening with a Webcast of Pema Khandro Rinpoche, Live Music with the songstress Marya Stark, Buddhist Art Show and Thangka Sale brought to us from the Lotus Gallery in Nepal, Tapas, Libations, and Community Celebration. This event will be held at Dakini Mountain Retreat Center, Nevada City, CA.
$108 Donation – Click Here to Register Now.
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Free Online Class: Excellent Path to Enlightenment

4th Wednesdays of Each Month
A short, potent 30-45 minute study of Buddhist philosophy

Pema Khandro offers this class each month on the fourth Wednesday of the month. It is approximately half an hour with meditation and study of Excellent Path to Enlightenment, the guide to meditation by the great 14th century Tibetan master, Longchenpa.

► Learn More
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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

 

Discover Dakini Mountain

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

Cutting Through Fear: Dzogchen Chod Retreat

With Pema Khandro

May 28 - June 1, 2025
May 28 - June 1 San Diego and Online In a world beset with fear, profound methods are needed to reclaim intrinsic wisdom and awaken innate courage. Join Pema Khandro and the Buddhist Studies institute for a contemplation of fierce compassion through the annual Chod retreat, Troma Nagmo teachings, and an optional five month Comprehensive Chod intensive training to follow. Chod is the profound method of psychological transformation in esoteric Buddhism. Chod means cutting, referring to cutting through the fictions that cause fear, anxiety, and hesitations in one’s life.    
Register now

Fierce Compassion: Comprehensive Chod Training

With Pema Khandro

June 9 - October 13, 2025
Embark on a transformative five-month journey into the heart of Dzogchen Chod with Tulku Pema Khandro, Ph.D. and the Buddhist Studies Institute. This comprehensive Chod training offers a rare opportunity for an in-depth immersion in the Dzogchen Chod system, Healing Chod, and the Secret Black Dakini Teachings. Take your Chod practice to the next level and cultivate fierce compassion and psychological transformation while studying the Tibetan tradition.
Register now

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Dear Friends and Members,

Dakini Mountain is a new Buddhist Center focused on the timeless Buddhist values of Harmony, Healing and Compassion within a modern context of Gender Equality, Celebration of Diversity and Ecological Sustainability.

Dakini Mountain is the international retreat center of Ngakpa International founded by Pema Khandro Rinpoche. Ngakpa International is dedicated to making in-depth Buddhist education accessible and available to anyone who wants to study.

This is offered through a combination of online and in-person classes, trainings, retreats, one-on-one mentoring,and holistic healing programs. Dakini Mountain is the main event location.
It is also a Buddhist Power Center of Vajrayogini, the Female Tantric Buddha.

Power Centers have long been a primary focus in the tradition of the Buddhist teachings – places consecrated and dynamically charged by potent Buddhist practices to foster experiences of inspiration and higher awareness that can change a person’s life and change the course of the culture, country and world wherein they are established.

Pema Khandro introduced the vision of Dakini Mountain as a power center of Vajrayogini, the female Tantric Buddha, saying, “Vajrayogini is the symbol of an alternate form of power that is under-represented in our time – the power of altruistic love. She is the ultimate symbol of gender inclusivity as a female Buddha who embodies innate wisdom and disrupts confusion through fiery insight. Vajrayogini is venerated in every sect of Tibetan Buddhism and appears in the legends of the great masters of Buddhism as a catalyst towards awakening.”

Dakini Mountain will house a Vajrayogini statue that has been made and consecrated in Boudha, Nepal. It will be installed and blessed during the Dakini Mountain grand opening celebration on May 31st, 2020.

This vision for Dakini Mountain will only happen with the effort, dedication and the support of many people. Will you be one of those people? Will you help make Dakini Mountain a reality now and in the years ahead?

Click Here to Donate Now

Thanks to people like you who have already supported Dakini Mountain, it is becoming a reality! 

Escrow was closed on February 22 of this year, 2019. Hooray! It was a long-awaited, major accomplishment. Thank you so much for your support! Now more support is needed to usher in the second phase of infrastructure.

Dakini Mountain is a pristine, mountainous, 35 acre parcel that already came with a valuable foundation of infrastructure, including a beautiful lodge, pond and grassy meadow.

This bounty has already made it possible to have 3 retreats take place in 2019 – a great and auspicious beginning!  Now, more infrastructure, new buildings, and support is critically needed for Dakini Mountain to continue. 

Help Dakini Mountain and its values of Harmony, Healing, Compassion, Gender Equality, Diversity and Ecological Sustainability flourish!! 

Phase 2: Building a Power Center
The next phase of developing Dakini Mountain includes technology needed for powering large scale events (electrically speaking) as well as the installment of the spiritual and inspirational power of the Vajrayogini shrine. In order to be able to open this beautiful place to the public, this also includes key aspects of legal and permitting milestones and a guest cabin for event leaders further making this space available to host events and creating further sustainability of this project.

 

Phase 2 Goals

$354,700 Total, including the following:

$100,000 – Solar System Upgrade.  Dakini Mountain is completely off the grid.  Doubling the capacity of the current system is needed for hosting larger groups.

$15,000 – Fire Clearing.  Northern California is a very high fire risk zone.  Brush clearing must be extensive and maintained to protect all structures.

$40,000 – Government Use Permits.  Local government laws and ordinances require a comprehensive permitting process.

$36,600 – Annual Insurance, Property Tax, and Propane Fees.

$6000 – 2019 Lodge and Facilities Upgrades.

$79,600 – Guest Cabin for teachers to come lead events including Pema Khandro Rinpoche, guest Lamas, other teachers and guests.

$7,500 – Installation of Vajrayogini statue and shrine to celebrate the feminine in Buddhism and foster the ideals of gender equality, harmony and compassion.

$69,000 – Other infrastructure expenses for 2019-2020 classes and retreats including website development and hosting, online meeting costs, accounting, printing, and other insurance needs.
Will you help make this project possible?

Special Gift – Vajrayogini Print


The unique Vajrayogini pictured here is currently guarding Dakini Mountain.

For gifts of $5000 and above, donors will receive a print replica of this rare and beautiful Vajrayogini painting.

 

 

Please donate now at:
www.GoFundMe.com/f/dakini-mountain-fundraiser

Or mail a check to:
Ngakpa International
PO Box 2396
Nevada City, California 95959

All of your donations are Tax Deductible
Ngakpa International is a 501 c (3) non-profit organization
Dakini Mountain Grand Opening_May 31 2020

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

 

A Vajrayogini Power Center

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

Cutting Through Fear: Dzogchen Chod Retreat

With Pema Khandro

May 28 - June 1, 2025
May 28 - June 1 San Diego and Online In a world beset with fear, profound methods are needed to reclaim intrinsic wisdom and awaken innate courage. Join Pema Khandro and the Buddhist Studies institute for a contemplation of fierce compassion through the annual Chod retreat, Troma Nagmo teachings, and an optional five month Comprehensive Chod intensive training to follow. Chod is the profound method of psychological transformation in esoteric Buddhism. Chod means cutting, referring to cutting through the fictions that cause fear, anxiety, and hesitations in one’s life.    
Register now

Fierce Compassion: Comprehensive Chod Training

With Pema Khandro

June 9 - October 13, 2025
Embark on a transformative five-month journey into the heart of Dzogchen Chod with Tulku Pema Khandro, Ph.D. and the Buddhist Studies Institute. This comprehensive Chod training offers a rare opportunity for an in-depth immersion in the Dzogchen Chod system, Healing Chod, and the Secret Black Dakini Teachings. Take your Chod practice to the next level and cultivate fierce compassion and psychological transformation while studying the Tibetan tradition.
Register now

by

Dear Friends and Members,

Dakini Mountain is a new Buddhist Center focused on the timeless Buddhist values of Harmony, Healing and Compassion within a modern context of Gender Equality, Celebration of Diversity and Ecological Sustainability.

Dakini Mountain is the international retreat center of Ngakpa International founded by Pema Khandro Rinpoche. Ngakpa International is dedicated to making in-depth Buddhist education accessible and available to anyone who wants to study. This is offered through a combination of online and in-person classes, training, retreats, one-on-one mentoring, and holistic healing programs. Dakini Mountain is the main event location.

It is also a Buddhist Power Center of Vajrayogini, the female Tantric Buddha.

Power Centers have long been a primary focus in the tradition of the Buddhist teachings – places consecrated and dynamically charged by potent Buddhist practices to foster experiences of inspiration and higher awareness that can change a person’s life and change the course of the culture, country and world wherein they are established.

Pema Khandro introduced the vision of Dakini Mountain as a power center of Vajrayogini, the female Tantric Buddha, saying, “Vajrayogini is the symbol of an alternate form of power that is under-represented in our time – the power of altruistic love. She is the ultimate symbol of gender inclusivity as a female Buddha who embodies innate wisdom and disrupts confusion through fiery insight. Vajrayogini is venerated in every sect of Tibetan Buddhism and appears in the legends of the great masters of Buddhism as a catalyst towards awakening.”

Dakini Mountain will house a Vajrayogini statue that has been made and consecrated in Boudha, Nepal. It will be installed and blessed during the Dakini Mountain Grand Opening Celebration on May 31st, 2020. This vision for Dakini Mountain will only happen with the effort, dedication, and support of many people. Will you be one of those people? Will you help make Dakini Mountain a reality now and in the years ahead

Click Here to Donate Now

Thanks to people like you who have already supported Dakini Mountain, it is becoming a reality! 

Escrow was closed on February 22 of this year, 2019. Hooray! It was a long-awaited, major accomplishment. Thank you so much for your support! Now more support is needed to usher in the second phase of infrastructure.

Dakini Mountain is a pristine, mountainous, 35 acre parcel that already came with a valuable foundation of infrastructure, including a beautiful lodge, pond and grassy meadow.

This bounty has already made it possible to have 3 retreats take place in 2019 – a great and auspicious beginning!  Now, more infrastructure, new buildings, and support is critically needed for Dakini Mountain to continue. 

Help Dakini Mountain and its values of Harmony, Healing, Compassion, Gender Equality, Diversity and Ecological Sustainability flourish!! 

Phase 2: Building a Power Center
The next phase of developing Dakini Mountain includes technology needed for powering large scale events (electrically speaking) as well as the installment of the spiritual and inspirational power of the Vajrayogini shrine. In order to be able to open this beautiful place to the public, this also includes key aspects of legal and permitting milestones and a guest cabin for event leaders further making this space available to host events and creating further sustainability of this project.

Phase 2 Goals
$354,700 Total, including the following:

$100,000 – Solar System Upgrade.  Dakini Mountain is completely off the grid.  Doubling the capacity of the current system is needed for hosting larger groups.

$15,000 – Fire Clearing.  Northern California is a very high fire risk zone.  Brush clearing must be extensive and maintained to protect all structures.

$40,000 – Government Use Permits.  Local government laws and ordinances require a comprehensive permitting process.

$36,600 – Annual Insurance, Property Tax, and Propane Fees.

$6000 – 2019 Lodge and Facilities Upgrades.

$79,600 – Guest Cabin for teachers to come lead events including Pema Khandro Rinpoche, guest Lamas, other teachers, and guests.

$7,500 – Installation of Vajrayogini statue and shrine to celebrate the feminine in Buddhism and foster the ideals of gender equality, harmony, and compassion.

$69,000 – Other infrastructure expenses for 2019-2020 classes and retreats including website development and hosting, online meeting costs, accounting, printing, and other insurance needs.
Will you help make this project possible?

Special Gift – Vajrayogini Print


The unique Vajrayogini pictured here is currently guarding Dakini Mountain.

For gifts of $5000 and above, donors will receive a print replica of this rare and beautiful Vajrayogini painting.

Pema Khandro Rinpoche has said of this particular thangka that it is the most exquisite Vajrayogini thangka she has ever seen.

Please donate now at:
www.GoFundMe.com/f/dakini-mountain-fundraiser

Or mail a check to:
Ngakpa International
PO Box 2396
Nevada City, California 95959

All of your donations are Tax Deductible
Ngakpa International is a 501 c (3) non-profit organization
Dakini Mountain Grand Opening_May 31 2020

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

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