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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

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

With Dr. Nicole Willock, Julie Regan, Ph.D., Pema Khandro, Lama Willa Miller, Amy Langenberg , Dr. Ann Gleig, Dr. Nida Chenagtsang, Lama Rod Owens, Dr. Jim Hopper, Dr. Elizabeth Call and Damchö Diana Finnegan

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

With Pema Khandro

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

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

Open Dates
This is the missing history of women in Tantric Buddhism. This course addresses the fascinating story of nuns, mothers, teachers, consorts, prophets, and disciples. Taught by scholar-practitioners whose groundbreaking research on women and Buddhism has changed the way we think of Buddhist history. This course will address the history of women in Buddhism, the history of yoginis and dakinis in India and Tibet, the stories of important Buddhist women, Buddhist philosophy on gender, sex, and sexuality, and the role of the consort in historical Tibet, and contemporary manifestations and so much more. Support the Buddhist Studies Institute by donating for…
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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.
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Breakthrough Retreat (Tekchod)

With Pema Khandro

June 27 - 29, 2025
Breakthrough Retreat Online with Pema Khandro   June 27-29. 9am-12 pst, each day.   In the protected space of retreat, we will investigate the essence of Breakthrough—learning to allow thoughts and emotions to self-liberate without suppression or engagement, discovering the spaciousness that remains when we release our habitual grasping. This retreat will be led online by Dzogchen teacher and scholar, Pema Khandro. Each day will include study and practice of  breakthrough practice, Trekchö (ཁྲེགས་ཆོད་, sometimes transliterated as “tekcho”), from the Heart Essence of the Dakinis
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Ngakpa International
Buddhist Wisdom in Family, Work and Society

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Dear Friends,
If you have been meaning to make a donation to our year-end Buddhist Yogis Thrive! Fundraising Appeal – now is the perfect time to do it. Click here to make a donation now!

Our fundraising goal is $18,000 by January 1st 2017. So far we have raised $6,496 and we have $11,504 to go! We still need your help.

We are a grass roots organization – so every donation is pivotal.

We are completely supported by a few friends and students. We are not a mass institution, we don’t rely on government, corporate grants or an inheritence – our work is made possible entirely on the grass roots level – by individual donations made by our friends from the past and present. So when you remember Ngakpa International in your year-end giving – your donation makes a huge difference. We have continued our work entirely due to one act of generosity at a time.

It is simple act to make a donation online now, but the effect will be far reaching. Your gift will allow Ngakpa International to continue to serve many hundreds of people in the West and East.

My heart-felt gratitude goes out to all of you who have already donated, contributed membership pledges and volunteered in 2017 – we truly could have not had our activities without your support. And we will not be able to continue without your support!

Click here to make a donation to help us reach our goal and also consider other ways you can help. If you aren’t already, become a member or consider upgrading your membership level.

May this season of giving bring you great peace and a sense that it is possible to co-create a world of wisdom together.

Yours Always,
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“When we give love, we have more of it.
When we give kindness, we live in a world of kindness.
A wealth of goodness is in us, but we realize it by sharing it.
Generosity really is the path to happines.”
– Pema Khandro

Donate Any Amount Here 

Our Thank you Gift To You for Your Donation:
Audio teaching with Pema Khandro “Cultivating Lasting Change”
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Our Thank You Gift for Your Donation
A Large Original Painting of the 8 Forms of Padmasambhava
A Tibetan Thangka
from Pema Khandro’s private collection
This has been in Pema Khandro’s personal shrine room for ten years. Painted in Nepal, it shows all the eight forms of Padmasambhava, plus the Female Buddha Yeshe Tsogyal and Mandarava. The Eight Forms of Padmasambhava tells the story of the Tantric Buddha of Tibet – illustrating the range of enlightened energies that are needed to help society. Padmasambhava is pictured as the lotus born, the self-existing wakefulness. He is pictured as the monk, ‘Lion of the Shakyas,’ and as the Tibetan Yogi, ‘Light Rays of the Sun.’ He is also shown as the ‘Lotus King’ ruler and the warrior form of Dorje Drollo, and in the for of speech of truth and power – Senge Dradok, the ‘Lion’s Roar.’
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