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Laughter of the Dakinis

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

Six Yogas: Ancient Vajrayana Practices for Living and Dying

With Pema Khandro

November 7 - 9, 2025
The Six Yogas is a weekend training which includes in-depth training in the most cherished esoteric practices of Tibetan Buddhism. This course addresses the core issues facing a life, and presents potent methods for integrating spiritual practice into every day life. The system includes meditations for living, dreaming, and dying. It features the practice of Tummo, or Inner Fire meditation, Illusory Body practice, Dream Yoga, Clear Light Meditation, Bardo, the dying practices and Phowa, the transference of consciousness at the time of death. Each practice is part of an overarching system for experiencing liminality, change, and uncertainty in states of…
Register now

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“Chod deals with the intense issue of love, heroism, self-care, and helping others when faced with evil, harm-doers, and obstacle makers. There are not simple answers to these issues, but from the Buddhist perspective, this work begins with meeting our own minds.”    ~ Pema Khandro

Oct 26-28, Charlottesville, Virginia
Chod Intensive: Laughter of the Dakinis

The intensive will offer training and immersion in the method known as “Cutting Through” or Chod.

Chod is a practice cherished by every lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. It is a dynamic meditation which incorporates vision, mantra, prayer, music, and ritual to cultivate open-hearted presence in the face of one’s fear. Chod is a Buddhist method for healing and transforming the hidden content within one’s own mind. By giving up grasping and externalized projections, the meditator taps into intrinsic courage. The intensive will alternate between teachings, training, dynamic meditation practice, and silent sitting.

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 Dakini Mountain

We have reached our first goal of $24,750 and have opened escrow!
Now we are in the crucial period of fundraising to secure this Real Estate.

Our goal is to raise $50,000 by October 15th.

Dakini Mountain

This is the retreat center our community has been dreaming of, but we can’t make this dream come true without your help.

Make a Donation today!

Share our GoFundMe page on Social Media

May we meet at Dakini Mountain
a place of overwhelming beauty and natural serenity,
built by ordinary yogis with extraordinary motivation.

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Upcoming Events
Oct 19 – 21        –  Vajra Sangha Retreat, Charlottesville, Virginia
Oct 22 – 25        –  Group Leader Training, Charlottesville, Virginia
Oct 26 – 28        –  Chod Intensive, Charlottesville, Virginia

Weekly Online Classes – Wednesdays at 6pm PT / 9pm ET
1st  Wed   –  Vajrayana Training
2nd Wed  –  Dzogchen Day for Members
3rd  Wed  –  Ngakpa Training for Varja Sangha students
4th  Wed  –  Open Teaching – Free for the Public

Tibetan Dream Yoga 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

Six Yogas: Ancient Vajrayana Practices for Living and Dying

With Pema Khandro

November 7 - 9, 2025
The Six Yogas is a weekend training which includes in-depth training in the most cherished esoteric practices of Tibetan Buddhism. This course addresses the core issues facing a life, and presents potent methods for integrating spiritual practice into every day life. The system includes meditations for living, dreaming, and dying. It features the practice of Tummo, or Inner Fire meditation, Illusory Body practice, Dream Yoga, Clear Light Meditation, Bardo, the dying practices and Phowa, the transference of consciousness at the time of death. Each practice is part of an overarching system for experiencing liminality, change, and uncertainty in states of…
Register now

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Join Pema Khandro in the Malibu Mountains
West Los Angeles

Love in Times of Hate
Friday, Sept 28, 11:30am
A Buddhist perspective on love and compassion during the era of the mainstreaming
of hate-speech. Explore Tibetan Buddhist principles for transforming aggression and discovering decisive clarity which is both loving and powerful at the same time.

Tibetan Dream Yoga
Saturday, Sept 29, 11:30am
Considered the practice most similar to our experience at death, Dream Yoga is about navigating in the real and unreal aspects of our experience without falling asleep to awareness. It is a practice of recognizing the nature of our minds.

Commune Retreat
*Single Day passes are available

Commune brings together a devotional, radically talented, creative + multicultural cast of ceremonial leaders, yoga/meditation instructors, teachers, musicians, dj’s, and guests, to create an expansive, transformational journey on this 3-night retreat in community.

Join Pema Khandro in San Diego

Awakening Fierce Compassion
White Tara Empowerment and Teaching

White Tara is the the female Buddha of compassion who strengthens the life force and protects beings. The White Tara meditation is a Tibetan Buddhist practice for awakening intrinsic wisdom.

Sunday, Sept 30th, 5pm
Soulstice San Diego
2918 5th Avenue, Suite 200, San Diego, CA 92103

Join Pema Khandro in Virginia

Oct 26-28
Chod Intensive
Charlottesville, Virginia

The intensive will offer training and immersion in the method known as “Cutting Through” or Chod.

Chod is a practice cherished by every lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. It is a dynamic meditation which incorporates vision, mantra, prayer, music, and ritual to cultivate open-hearted presence in the face of one’s fear. Chod is a Buddhist method for healing and transforming the hidden content within one’s own mind. By giving up grasping and externalized projections, the meditator taps into intrinsic courage.

The intensive will alternate between teachings, training, dynamic meditation practice, and silent sitting.

Dakini Mountain

We have finally found the ideal place – a place where we can encounter the overwhelming beauty of nature and the natural state – a place where we can bring Dakini Mountain to life.

We have reached our first goal of $24,750 and have opened escrow!

Now we are in the crucial period of fundraising to secure this Real Estate.
Our goal is to raise $50,000 by October 15th.

This is the retreat center our community has been dreaming of, but we can’t make this dream come true without your help.

Make a Donation today!

Share our GoFundMe page
on social media and please tell your friends to join you
in supporting Dakini Mountain!

May we meet at Dakini Mountain
a place of overwhelming beauty and natural serenity,
built by ordinary yogis with extraordinary motivation.

Upcoming Events

Sep 28               –  Love in Times of Hate, Malibu Mountains

Sep 29               –  Tibetan Dream Yoga, Malibu Mountains

Sep 30               –  White Tara Empowerment & Teaching, San Diego

Oct 19 – 21        –  Vajra Sangha Retreat, Charlottesville, Virginia

Oct 22 – 25        –  Group Leader Training, Charlottesville, Virginia

Oct 26 – 28        –  Chod Intensive, Charlottesville, Virginia

 

Weekly Online Classes
Wednesdays at 6pm PT / 9pm ET

1st  Wed  –  Vajrayana Training

2nd Wed  –  Dzogchen Day for Members

3rd  Wed  –  Ngakpa Training for Varja Sangha students

4th  Wed  –  Open Teaching – Free for the Public

Pema Khandro Rinpoche’s featured article
in Lion’s Roar on Cultivating the Boundless Love of a Bodhisattva.

Open Your Heart Further

“When our love is tired or has hit its limits, Buddhism suggests we open our hearts further and tap into a more expansive love.”

LA – San Diego – Virginia

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

Six Yogas: Ancient Vajrayana Practices for Living and Dying

With Pema Khandro

November 7 - 9, 2025
The Six Yogas is a weekend training which includes in-depth training in the most cherished esoteric practices of Tibetan Buddhism. This course addresses the core issues facing a life, and presents potent methods for integrating spiritual practice into every day life. The system includes meditations for living, dreaming, and dying. It features the practice of Tummo, or Inner Fire meditation, Illusory Body practice, Dream Yoga, Clear Light Meditation, Bardo, the dying practices and Phowa, the transference of consciousness at the time of death. Each practice is part of an overarching system for experiencing liminality, change, and uncertainty in states of…
Register now

by

Join Pema Khandro in the Malibu Mountains
West Los Angeles

Sept 28
Love in Times of Hate

A Buddhist perspective on love and compassion during the era of the mainstreaming
of hate-speech. Explore Tibetan Buddhist principles for transforming aggression and discovering decisive clarity which is both loving and powerful at the same time.

Sept 29
Tibetan Dream Yoga

Considered the practice most similar to our experience at death, Dream Yoga is about navigating in the real and unreal aspects of our experience without falling asleep to awareness. It is a practice of recognizing the nature of our minds.


Commune Retreat
*Single Day passes are available

Commune brings together a devotional, radically talented, creative + multicultural cast of ceremonial leaders, yoga/meditation instructors, teachers, musicians, dj’s, and guests, to create an expansive, transformational journey on this 3-night retreat in community.

Join Pema Khandro in San Diego

Awakening Fierce Compassion
White Tara Empowerment and Teaching

White Tara is the the female Buddha of compassion who strengthens the life force and protects beings. The White Tara meditation is a Tibetan Buddhist practice for awakening intrinsic wisdom.

Sunday, Sept 30th, 5pm
Soulstice San Diego
2918 5th Avenue, Suite 200, San Diego, CA 92103

Join Pema Khandro in Virginia

Oct 26-28
Chod Intensive
Charlottesville, Virginia

The intensive will offer training and immersion in the method known as “Cutting Through” or Chod.

Chod is a practice cherished by every lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. It is a dynamic meditation which incorporates vision, mantra, prayer, music, and ritual to cultivate open-hearted presence in the face of one’s fear. Chod is a Buddhist method for healing and transforming the hidden content within one’s own mind. By giving up grasping and externalized projections, the meditator taps into intrinsic courage.
The intensive will alternate between teachings, training, dynamic meditation practice, and silent sitting.

Dakini Mountain

We have finally found the ideal place – a place where we can encounter the overwhelming beauty of nature and the natural state – a place where we can bring Dakini Mountain to life.

We have just raised the first $24,750 deposit to open escrow!

Now we are in the crucial period of fundraising to secure this Real Estate.
Our goal is to raise the next $50,000 by October 15th.

This is the retreat center our community has been dreaming of, but we can’t make this dream come true without your help.

Make a Donation today!

Share our GoFundMe page

on social media and please tell your friends to join you
in supporting Dakini Mountain!

May we meet at Dakini Mountain
a place of overwhelming beauty and natural serenity,
built by ordinary yogis with extraordinary motivation.

Upcoming Events

Sep 28               –  Love in Times of Hate, Malibu Mountains

Sep 29               –  Tibetan Dream Yoga, Malibu Mountains

Sep 30               –  White Tara Empowerment & Teaching, San Diego

Oct 19 – 21        –  Vajra Sangha Retreat, Charlottesville, Virginia

Oct 22 – 25        –  Group Leader Training, Charlottesville, Virginia

Oct 26 – 28        –  Chod Intensive, Charlottesville, Virginia

 

Weekly Online Classes
Wednesdays at 6pm PT / 9pm ET

1st  Wed  –  Vajrayana Training

2nd Wed  –  Dzogchen Day for Members

3rd  Wed  –  Ngakpa Training for Varja Sangha students

4th  Wed  –  Open Teaching – Free for the Public

Pema Khandro Rinpoche’s featured article
in Lion’s Roar on Cultivating the Boundless Love of a Bodhisattva.

Open Your Heart Further

“When our love is tired or has hit its limits,
Buddhism suggests we open our hearts further
and tap into a more expansive love.”

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

Six Yogas: Ancient Vajrayana Practices for Living and Dying

With Pema Khandro

November 7 - 9, 2025
The Six Yogas is a weekend training which includes in-depth training in the most cherished esoteric practices of Tibetan Buddhism. This course addresses the core issues facing a life, and presents potent methods for integrating spiritual practice into every day life. The system includes meditations for living, dreaming, and dying. It features the practice of Tummo, or Inner Fire meditation, Illusory Body practice, Dream Yoga, Clear Light Meditation, Bardo, the dying practices and Phowa, the transference of consciousness at the time of death. Each practice is part of an overarching system for experiencing liminality, change, and uncertainty in states of…
Register now

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The Shocking News about Dakini Mountain

We had no idea things would happen this fast

For some years our sangha has outgrown our Berkeley Center and we have been renting retreat centers for our events. But the ultimate goal has been to own our own retreat center for the 4-6 retreats we hold every year. Pema Khandro Rinpoche has been talking about this future retreat center –  Dakini Mountain – since 2004. Last year, we began searching for properties but it was difficult to find something that fit all our criteria. But now the time is finally upon us!    

On Sept 1st, after a town hall meeting, our sangha members voted to sell the Berkeley Gompa and reinvest in the Dakini Mountain vision. After a unanimous vote, we put an offer in on the dream property near Lake Tahoe that Pema Khandro Rinpoche visited in August.

Even though our funding is limited and timing uncertain, due to the need to wait for the Berkeley Gompa to sell, we decided to place an offer.

To our amazement, the owners countered with an offer that could be within our range!

In order to open escrow (to purchase the property):
We need to raise $25k by Monday, September 17th.
We will also be fundraising for $150k by years end.

Can you help make Dakini Mountain a reality?
Every donation big or small makes a difference.

Click Here to Donate Now

How will Dakini Mountain affect our current Centers?

Once we sell the Berkeley Center, the current Chief of the center, Tsalgyur, will open a new, smaller community center as a rental. This would allow us to continue offering morning practice as well as meditation classes and other events for the public. So the Berkeley community would continue to be served in a form that is more sustainable. The House of Bodhichitta in Santa Cruz would continue in its current location where we have seven residents.

The property we have found is an overwhelmingly beautiful 35 acres, already on solar power and has enough room for our sangha to grow into. Pema Khandro Rinpoche visited the property in August and told us that it reminded her of Tibet. It has expansive views, pine forest, a swimming pond, a gorgeous park-like lawn with a stage for outdoor events, and a lodge. We need your help to make this happen!

In order to open escrow (to purchase the property):
We need to raise $25k by Monday, September 17th.
We will also be fundraising for $150k by years end

Click Here to Learn More about Dakini Mountain

 

 

Pema Khandro Rinpoche’s featured article
in Lion’s Roar on Cultivating the Boundless Love of a Bodhisattva.

Open Your Heart Further

“When our love is tired or has hit its limits,
Buddhism suggests we open our hearts further
and tap into a more expansive love.”

Join Pema Khandro Rinpoche in Malibu
Sept 28 & 29

Commune Retreat

Commune brings together a devotional, radically talented, creative + multicultural cast of ceremonial leaders, yoga/meditation instructors, teachers, musicians, dj’s, and guests, to create an expansive, transformational journey on this 3-night retreat in community.

Join Pema Khandro in San Diego

Awakening Fierce Compassion
White Tara Empowerment and Teaching

White Tara is the the female Buddha of compassion who strengthens the life force and protects beings. The White Tara meditation is a Tibetan Buddhist practice for awakening intrinsic wisdom.

Sept 30th, 5pm
Soulstice San Diego
2918 5th Avenue, Suite 200, San Diego, CA 92103

Join Pema Khandro in Virginia

Chod Intensive
Oct 26-28, Charlottesville, Virginia

This meditation intensive focuses on Buddhism’s esoteric practice for transforming the most difficult experiences into opportunities for awakening. It is a method which harnesses the heroic energy of enlightened intent to change neurotic mind patterns and heal from traumas. It is a practice for opening to intrinsic wholeness, loving compassion, and natural resilience.

Upcoming Events

Sep 28 & 29      –  Commune Retreat, Malibu Mountains, California

Sep 30               –  White Tara Empowerment & Teaching, San Diego, California

Oct 19 – 21        –  Vajra Sangha Retreat, Khandro Ling Retreat, Virginia

Oct 22 – 25        –  Group Leader Training, Khandro Ling Retreat, Virginia

Oct 26 – 28        –  Chod Intensive, Khandro Ling Retreat, Virginia

Weekly Online Classes
Wednesdays at 6pm PT / 9pm ET

1st  Wed  –  Vajrayana Training

2nd Wed  –  Dzogchen Day for Members

3rd  Wed  –  Ngakpa Training for Varja Sangha students

4th  Wed  –  Open Teaching – Free for the Public

Awakening Fierce Compassion

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

Six Yogas: Ancient Vajrayana Practices for Living and Dying

With Pema Khandro

November 7 - 9, 2025
The Six Yogas is a weekend training which includes in-depth training in the most cherished esoteric practices of Tibetan Buddhism. This course addresses the core issues facing a life, and presents potent methods for integrating spiritual practice into every day life. The system includes meditations for living, dreaming, and dying. It features the practice of Tummo, or Inner Fire meditation, Illusory Body practice, Dream Yoga, Clear Light Meditation, Bardo, the dying practices and Phowa, the transference of consciousness at the time of death. Each practice is part of an overarching system for experiencing liminality, change, and uncertainty in states of…
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Take your practice to the next level

Meditation Instructor Training – Online
Sept 13th – Oct 6th, 2018

Join Pema Khandro Rinpoche, Aruna Rig’dzin and Satya Shiva for a deep experiential dive into foundational meditation methods and practices, learn to teach them to others, and discover the secrets of mind that the ancient yogis knew!
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Join Pema Khandro Rinpoche
Sept 28 & 29 –  Malibu Mountains, CA

Commune Retreat

Commune brings together a devotional, radically talented, creative + multicultural cast of ceremonial leaders, yoga/meditation instructors, teachers, musicians, dj’s, and guests, to create an expansive, transformational journey on this 3-night retreat in community.

Awakening Fierce Compassion
White Tara Empowerment and Teachin

White Tara is the the female buddha of compassion who strengthens the life force and protects beings. The White Tara meditation is a Tibetan Buddhist practice for awakening intrinsic wisdom.

Sept 30th, 5pm
Soulstice San Diego
2918 5th Avenue, Suite 200, San Diego, CA 92103

 

Chod Intensive
Oct 26-28, Charlottesville, Virginia
Click Here for More Information

This meditation intensive focuses on Buddhism’s esoteric practice for transforming the most difficult experiences into opportunities for awakening. It is a method which harnesses the heroic energy of enlightened intent to change neurotic mind patterns and heal from traumas. It is a practice for opening to intrinsic wholeness, loving compassion, and natural resilience.

Upcoming Events

Sep 13 – Oct 6   –  Meditation Instructor Training, Online

Sep 28 & 29      –  Commune Retreat, Malibu Mountains, California

Sep 30               –  White Tara Empowerment & Teaching, San Diego, California

Oct 19 – 21        –  Vajra Sangha Retreat, Khandro Ling Retreat, Virginia

Oct 22 – 25        –  Group Leader Training, Khandro Ling Retreat, Virginia

Oct 26 – 28       –  Chod Intensive, Khandro Ling Retreat, Virginia

Weekly Online Classes
Wednesdays at 6pm PT / 9pm ET

1st  Wed  –  Vajrayana Training

2nd Wed  –  Dzogchen Day for Members

3rd  Wed  –  Ngakpa Training for Varja Sangha students

4th  Wed  –  Open Teaching – Free for the Public

Teacher Training – Online

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

Six Yogas: Ancient Vajrayana Practices for Living and Dying

With Pema Khandro

November 7 - 9, 2025
The Six Yogas is a weekend training which includes in-depth training in the most cherished esoteric practices of Tibetan Buddhism. This course addresses the core issues facing a life, and presents potent methods for integrating spiritual practice into every day life. The system includes meditations for living, dreaming, and dying. It features the practice of Tummo, or Inner Fire meditation, Illusory Body practice, Dream Yoga, Clear Light Meditation, Bardo, the dying practices and Phowa, the transference of consciousness at the time of death. Each practice is part of an overarching system for experiencing liminality, change, and uncertainty in states of…
Register now

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Meditation Instructor Training Online
Sept 13th – Oct 6th, 2018

Training the Mind  ~  The Highest Pursuit
Become a Meditation Instructor or simply deepen your own practice, knowledge, and experience.

Join Pema Khandro Rinpoche, Aruna Rig’dzin and Satya Shiva
for a deep experiential dive into foundational meditation methods and practices,
learn to teach them to others, and discover the secrets of mind that the ancient yogis knew!
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 Join Pema Khandro Rinpoche
Sept 28 & 29 –  Malibu Mountains, CA

Commune Retreat

Commune brings together a devotional, radically talented, creative + multicultural cast
of ceremonial leaders, yoga/meditation instructors, teachers, musicians, dj’s, and guests,
to create an expansive, transformational journey on this 3-night retreat in community.

Chod Intensive
with Pema Khandro Rinpoche
Oct 26 – 28, Virginia

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The intensive will offer training and immersion in the method known as “Cutting Through” or Chod. Chod is a practice cherished by every lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. It is a dynamic meditation which incorporates, vision, mantra, prayer, music, and ritual to cultivate open-hearted presence in the face of one’s fear. Chod is a Buddhist method for healing and transforming the hidden content within one’s own mind. By giving up grasping and externalized projections, the meditator taps into intrinsic courage.

Click Here for More Information

Upcoming Events

Sep 13 – Oct 6   –  Meditation Instructor Training, Online

Sep 28 & 29       – Commune Retreat, Malibu Mountains, California

Oct 19 – 21        –  Vajra Sangha Retreat, Khandro Ling Retreat, Virginia

Oct 22 – 25        –  Group Leader Training, Khandro Ling Retreat, Virginia

Oct 26 – 28       –  Chod Intensive, Khandro Ling Retreat, Virginia

Weekly Online Classes
Wednesdays at 6pm PT / 9pm ET

1st  Wed  –  Vajrayana Training

2nd Wed  –  Dzogchen Day for Members

3rd  Wed  –  Ngakpa Training for Varja Sangha students

4th  Wed  –  Open Teaching – Free for the Public

Minutes of Meditation Required for Deep Peace?

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

Six Yogas: Ancient Vajrayana Practices for Living and Dying

With Pema Khandro

November 7 - 9, 2025
The Six Yogas is a weekend training which includes in-depth training in the most cherished esoteric practices of Tibetan Buddhism. This course addresses the core issues facing a life, and presents potent methods for integrating spiritual practice into every day life. The system includes meditations for living, dreaming, and dying. It features the practice of Tummo, or Inner Fire meditation, Illusory Body practice, Dream Yoga, Clear Light Meditation, Bardo, the dying practices and Phowa, the transference of consciousness at the time of death. Each practice is part of an overarching system for experiencing liminality, change, and uncertainty in states of…
Register now

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We hear the following question All The Time:
  • How long until I achieve results?
  • What can I do to maximize my practice?
  • Should I feel happier after I meditate?
  • My mind is so active, how can I possibly sit through meditation?
  • Does meditation really help my health and relationships?
  • What’s the most efficient way to get the benefits of meditation?
  • What’s the shortest amount of time, and the most efficient method to achieve the most benefits of meditation?  (everyone wants to know!)
The practical benefits of meditation are well documented. Research shows it improves mood, reduces stress (Brown & Warren 2003), it improves memory, visuospatial reasoning, sustained attention and executive brain function (Zeidan et al. 2010). It reduces sub-clinical depression and anxiety (Schreiner and Malcolm 2012).
The Tibetan Buddhist Yogis knew exactly how to access these benefits. 
Join Pema Khandro Rinpoche, Aruna Rig’dzin and Satya Shiva for a deep experiential dive into foundational meditation methods and practices, learn to teach them to others, and discover the secrets of mind that the ancient yogis knew!

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Meditation Instructor Training Online
Sept 13th – Oct 6th, 2018

Training the Mind  ~  The Highest Pursuit
Become a Meditation Instructor or simply deepen your own practice, knowledge, and experience.
Meditation
There are so many places where meditation can be taught.
It can add a profound benefit to temples, yoga centers, health centers, schools, corporations, communities and healthcare settings.This training offers meditation instructors copious knowledge, both practical and experiential – so that you can offer high-quality classes in any setting.

Click Here for More Info

Upcoming Events

Sep 13 – Oct 6   –  Meditation Instructor Training, Online

Oct 19 – 21        –  Vajra Sangha Retreat, Khandro Ling Retreat, Virginia

Oct 22 – 25        –  Group Leader Training, Khandro Ling Retreat, Virginia

Oct 26 – 28       –  Chod Intensive, Khandro Ling Retreat, Virginia

Rest, Recover, and Reconnect

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

Six Yogas: Ancient Vajrayana Practices for Living and Dying

With Pema Khandro

November 7 - 9, 2025
The Six Yogas is a weekend training which includes in-depth training in the most cherished esoteric practices of Tibetan Buddhism. This course addresses the core issues facing a life, and presents potent methods for integrating spiritual practice into every day life. The system includes meditations for living, dreaming, and dying. It features the practice of Tummo, or Inner Fire meditation, Illusory Body practice, Dream Yoga, Clear Light Meditation, Bardo, the dying practices and Phowa, the transference of consciousness at the time of death. Each practice is part of an overarching system for experiencing liminality, change, and uncertainty in states of…
Register now

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Rest   ~   Recover  ~  Reconnect

There are moments in life when a pause is called for, a time to reflect, rejuvenate, and re-emerge with heightened inspiration and purpose.

The annual summer retreat with Pema Khandro Rinpoche is a time to
recover from the daily grind and chaos of life, to be uplifted by sublime Buddhist teachings, to reconnect with our inner nature,
and to relax with our joyous community.

There are still a few different types of accommodations available.
Register Now to Reserve your Space

Presence as the Path
Free Member Class – Online with Janak Kimmel

July 26th, Thursday 6pm PST / 9pm EST
A Training in Daily Practice, the Daily Prayers and the Silent Meditation known as Calm Abiding or Zhine Practice.
This class is open to all Members.

Special Members-Only Class
Discussion with Pema Khandro

August 8th during Dzogchen Day Webcast at 6pm

Discussion Topics:

– Buddhism and Sexuality
*Vajrayana Training Members have access to the full course.- Teacher-Student Relationship
*Study this entire module at your own pace.
Click Here
– Become a Member to Join this Discussion with Pema Khandro

Become a Member

Want to help support our activities and the teachings of Pema Khandro Rinpoche? Become a member! Members are the heart of our non-profit organization! Our activities continue due to member support. Members also receive discounts and access to member-only events. All access pass members receive tuition-free retreats and classes. Membership starts at just $10 a month.  Learn more here.

Meditation Instructor Training Online
Sept 13th – Oct 6th, 2018

Meditation Teachers can offer important tools to society for relating to these tumultuous times.
There are so many places where meditation can be taught.
It can add a profound benefit to temples, yoga centers, health centers, schools, corporations, communities and healthcare settings.
This training offers meditation instructors copious knowledge, both practical and experiential – so that you can offer high-quality classes in any setting.

Click Here for More Info

More Upcoming Events

Residential Retreats
Aug 14 – 19  Dzogchen Meditation Retreat,
Mount Madonna Center with Pema KhandroOct 19 – 21  Vajra Sangha Retreat
Khandro Ling, Virginia with Pema KhandroTeacher Trainings
Sep 13 – Oct 6  Meditation Instructor Training
Online with Pema Khandro, Aruna Rigdzin and Satya ShivaOct 22 – 25  Group Leader Training
Khandro Ling, Virginia with Pema Khandro

 

Weekly Online Classes with Pema Khandro
Wednesdays at 6pm PT / 9pm ET 

1st  Wed  –  Vajrayana Training
2nd Wed  –  Dzogchen Day for Members
3rd  Wed  –  Ngakpa Training for Vajra Sangha students
4th  Wed  –  Open Teaching – Online – Free for the Public – Study of Longchenpa’s Excellent Path to Enlightenment
5th Wed – Bodhisattva Training

*Schedule subject to change for eclipses, retreats and holidays. Sign up for our newsletter here: https://ngakpa.org/

“What it means to let go, and what is born when we do”
Pema Khandro Featured in Lion’s Roar Magazine

“It’s when we lose the illusion of control – when we’re most vulnerable and exposed – that we can discover the creative potential of our lives.”

Lucid Stillness. Spacious Ground.

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

Six Yogas: Ancient Vajrayana Practices for Living and Dying

With Pema Khandro

November 7 - 9, 2025
The Six Yogas is a weekend training which includes in-depth training in the most cherished esoteric practices of Tibetan Buddhism. This course addresses the core issues facing a life, and presents potent methods for integrating spiritual practice into every day life. The system includes meditations for living, dreaming, and dying. It features the practice of Tummo, or Inner Fire meditation, Illusory Body practice, Dream Yoga, Clear Light Meditation, Bardo, the dying practices and Phowa, the transference of consciousness at the time of death. Each practice is part of an overarching system for experiencing liminality, change, and uncertainty in states of…
Register now

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Deep rest. Lucid stillness. Spacious ground.

Join us for

The Annual Summer Meditation Retreat
with Pema Khandro Rinpoche

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Register Now

The Annual Dzogchen Retreat

  • Rest into quiet space
  • Tap into inner wisdom
  • Rediscover the power of meditation
  • Receive teachings and instruction every day with Pema Khandro
  • Let go and unwind into natural spaciousness
  • Find deep relaxation of body and mind
  • Cultivate a connection with inner wisdom
  • Support your body to meditate in comfort and stability
  • Find inspiration and insight in the history and philosophy of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection
  • Enjoy the gentle power of Tibetan Meditation techniques including Calm Abiding, Higher Seeing, the Nine Purifications and Holding the Mind
  • Dissolve obstacles to meditation by dissolving these obstacles at their root
  • Immerse yourself in a community of serious meditators who are also light-hearted, warm and playful
  • Enjoy dharma study and practice in an inclusive environment

 This retreat will be held in at Mount Madonna Retreat Center in the Redwood Forest. People from all over the world come to enjoy the scenic forests of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Mount Madonna Retreat Center offers 355 acres of these majestic trees and grasslands as a haven to connect with nature.

The retreat will begin on Tuesday evening, August 14th and continue until the 19th on Sunday afternoon. It will include meditation instruction and practice, yoga, Buddhist philosophy teachings and chanting Tibetan prayers. Friday night will include a celebration and Saturday night will be a Tsok feast. Food will be vegetarian with vegan options every day.

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Pema Khandro Featured in Lion’s Roar Magazine

  • Pema Khandro writes about the reason that Buddhist’s meditate in the July edition of Lion’s Roar on “The Real Reasons Buddhists meditate.”  Read more here.
  • Did you miss Pema Khandro’s lecture at Women’s March in Washington DC in 2017? The transcript of the talk is now published at Lion’s Roar – Read more here.   Become a Member
Want to help support our activities and the teachings of Pema Khandro Rinpoche? Become a member! Members are the heart of our non-profit organization! Our activities continue due to member support. Members also receive discounts and access to member-only events. All access pass members receive tuition-free retreats and classes.  Learn more here.

More Upcoming Events

Swimming through an Ocean of Confusion
Free Member Class – for Dzogchen Day 
Online with Pema Khandro
July 11th, Tuesday 6pm PST/9pm EST
Every second Wednesday Pema Khandro Rinpoche leads a class for members only. This starts with guided meditation and is followed by a question and answer session. This month’s class will focus on the Teacher Student Relationship in Vajrayana. This follows up on the self-paced course on the teacher-student relationship. If you haven’t watched it yet, you can get it here. Watch the course online at home and prepare bring your questions to class. In light of recent scandals and the courageous voices of the #metoo movement, the class will consider possibilities for navigating the choppy waters of a new era in Buddhism. Not a member yet? Become a member hereVajrayana Training is Moved This Month
Reminder – Due to the July 4th Holiday, Vajrayana Training is after Dzogchen Day 6:45 PST/9:45 EST July 11th.

Free Member Class – Presence as the Path
A Training in Daily Practice, the Daily Prayers and the Silent Meditation known as Calm Abiding or Zhine Practice
July 26th, Thursday 6pm PST / 9pm EST
Online with Janak Kimmel

Residential Retreats
Aug 14 – 19  Dzogchen Meditation Retreat,
Mount Madonna Center with Pema Khandro

Oct 19 – 21  Vajra Sangha Retreat,
Khandro Ling, Virginia with Pema Khandro

Teacher Trainings
Sep 13 – Oct 6  Meditation Instructor Training
Online with Pema Khandro, Aruna Rigdzin and Satya Shiva

Oct 22 – 25  Group Leader Training,
Khandro Ling, Virginia with Pema Khandro

Weekly Online Classes with Pema Khandro
Wednesdays at 6pm PT / 9pm ET 

1st  Wed  –  Vajrayana Training
2nd Wed  –  Dzogchen Day for Members
3rd  Wed  –  Ngakpa Training for Vajra Sangha students
4th  Wed  –  Open Teaching – Online – Free for the Public – Study of Longchenpa’s Excellent Path to Enlightenment
5th Wed – Bodhisattva Training

*Schedule subject to change for eclipses, retreats and holidays. Sign up for our newsletter here: https://ngakpa.org/

Powerful and Compassionate

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

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Join Pema Khandro and a group of esteemed Buddhist Studies scholars for an exploration of the history of Buddhist Sexualities from celibacy, to sacred sexuality in Buddhist Tantra and a simple approach to embodied integration with nature in Dzogchen.   Support the Buddhist Studies Institute by donating for these precious teachings. Your contribution, big and small, helps makes in-depth Buddhist training and education more accessible for all. May the teachings spread and flourish!
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Buddhist Ethics – Self Paced Course

With Pema Khandro

Open Dates
This course on Buddhist Ethics goes through the Five Buddhist Precepts. The five precepts form the basis of a Buddhist way of life and the vows that Buddhists Seek to follow. The Five Precepts are a discipline of freedom, honor, and precision that cover the potent themes of life from the extraordinary perspective of non-duality.   Support the Buddhist Studies Institute by donating for these precious teachings. Your contribution, big and small, helps makes in-depth Buddhist training and education more accessible for all. May the teachings spread and flourish!
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Women in Tantric Buddhism – Self Paced Course

With Holly Gayley, Judith Simmer-Brown, Sarah Jacoby, Amy Langenberg , Damchö Diana Finnegan, Venerable Karma Lekshe Tsomo and Pema Khandro

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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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Six Yogas: Ancient Vajrayana Practices for Living and Dying

With Pema Khandro

November 7 - 9, 2025
The Six Yogas is a weekend training which includes in-depth training in the most cherished esoteric practices of Tibetan Buddhism. This course addresses the core issues facing a life, and presents potent methods for integrating spiritual practice into every day life. The system includes meditations for living, dreaming, and dying. It features the practice of Tummo, or Inner Fire meditation, Illusory Body practice, Dream Yoga, Clear Light Meditation, Bardo, the dying practices and Phowa, the transference of consciousness at the time of death. Each practice is part of an overarching system for experiencing liminality, change, and uncertainty in states of…
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Pema Khandro’s essay on Power in Buddhism was featured in Lion’s Roars Top Stories this week. This was based on a transcript of Pema Khandro’s speech at the Women’s March in Washington D.C. in 2017.

“Just because we avoid talking about power doesn’t mean we are unaffected by it. Power and hierarchy still unfold amidst our silence but are left to manifest in unconscious ways that promote suffering. This is the problem with the defensive avoidance of traumatic material: it always returns, resurfacing again and again until we can see our way through it. And we must see our way through it. If we avoid talking about power and social action, Buddhist ideas lose their relevance. We can’t speak of healthy love and compassion without addressing power dynamics. We can’t talk about interdependence without paying attention to the needs of the collective. It’s easy to say we love all sentient beings and to talk about universal compassion and empathy as abstractions. But how do we enact love and compassion on the ground, in real life?”

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The Power of Buddhism

 

 

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