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!
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!
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!
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…
Join us for the 21 Taras. The twenty-one taras is a sublime chanting meditation and praise of the forms of the female Bodhisattva Tara, each one a contemplation of all the forms of compassion ranging from gentle to fierce. This event explores the outer, inner and secret meaning of the twenty-one taras. This will be a joyous fundraiser in honor of our beloved Pema Khandro Rinpoche’s birthday. Wednesday, December 4th 6 pm pt | 9 pm et
First of all, I would like to express gratitude to those of you who have donated to the Fall 2023 Buddhist Studies Institute Fundraiser. Each friend, each sangha member who has donated is helping make the Buddhist teachings more vital.
Do you ever think about power? It’s a provocative subject.
One of the ways I like to think about it is “What can I do to make a difference? What’s my power to do that?”
Honestly, at times I find it frustrating, not to speak of heartbreaking, to look out at the world and see the tremendous amount of suffering. So much of it seems completely unnecessary, like “Can’t you all think of a better way to do this?”
What’s a Buddhist person to do? There’s probably many ways to answer that question. I like the saying of the Dalai Lama, “My religion is kindness.” I ask myself how can I be a little more kind to the people I meet casually through the day, the people I am intimate with and even the people I happen to think of, whether I know them or not.
I think it’s a great place to start.
Another powerful thing to do is make a donation right here, right now to support these teachings.
Each dollar, each gift helps make possible classes, retreat and trainings for people like you and me to learn how to be more kind and have less suffering in our personal lives. And it always extends out to others.
This was the Buddha’s teaching, how to relieve suffering.
Please support this campaign with your donation today. If it’s just a few dollars, wonderful. If you can afford more, so much the better. If it’s your second or third time giving to this campaign, thank you! Large or small, your donation means a lot to all of us who care about Pema Khandro’s teaching and the Buddhist Studies Institute and want to see it grow. Thank you!
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May we all be more powerful in the most kind way.
Wishing you the best, Janak
Janak Kimmel Director of Fundraising Ngakpa International Buddhist Studies Institute www.buddhiststudiesinstitute.org P.O. Box 2396 Nevada City, California 95946 USA