Dear Friends, Thank you for your continued support in 2017. Because of you, Ngakpa International continues to offer in-depth Buddhist Education worldwide. Thanks to you we were able to offer:
This was also another year of training leaders, teachers, counselors, doctors and health professionals.
Our activities happened all over the globe. This year, Pema Khandro Rinpoche was a presenter at the International Buddhist Women’s Conference in Hong Kong. She was also one of the featured teachers at the Lion’s Roar Retreat in New York. While she went to Tibet and hand-delivered donations to Ngakpa schools in the Himalayan region, His Eminence Gyaldak Rinpoche offered rituals, teachings, and blessings at our Ngakpa school here in the West. We also hosted two Guest Lamas in our centers in California. In pursuit of our commitment to support wellness in body and mind, we led our signature Detoxification and Cleansing Retreats in California and Mexico, and all the while our local leaders led regular Meditation Classes in five cities and our Residential Centers fostered 30 residents. Pema Khandro Rinpoche has continued to offer us extraordinary access to in-depth training and education in the esoteric Buddhist teachings of 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 contemplative sciences of the Buddhist Yogis. This past summer’s annual Dzogchen residential retreat at Mount Madonna was a major success with serious practice and serious joy. This has all been possible due to the massive effort, ceaseless teaching, and tireless generosity of our beloved teacher, Pema Khandro Rinpoche. But she cannot do this alone – your help is needed to make the continuation of this mission possible. We rely on donations to fund our activities, less than 50% of our operations are covered by tuition – it is donations that make our activities continue! In particular, we rely on our End-of-Year Fundraising Drive to keep our activities thriving for another year. So please remember us in your year-end giving and Make a Donation Today. We are a small grassroots organization, so your donations, however small or big, have a direct, potent impact.
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 Year-End Donation!
Ngakpa Intl is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. All donations are Tax Deductible. Below you will find some Very Special Gifts we’d like to give you to say Thank You for your kind donation. Please help us reach our $21,000 goal by the years end!
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The following three very large thangka prints from Tibet were hand selected by Pema Khandro Rinpoche during the Monkey Year Pilgrimage, carried back for her personal collection, and have been on display within the Meditation Hall at Khandro Ling Center in Virginia ever since. The Monkey Year is significant because it is considered the Year of Padmasambhava’s birthday, the most auspicious year for Tantric Buddhism, which cycles around only every 60 years. It is a print on canvas in the style available in Tibet, with a beautifully embroidered brocade which matches the collection in the Khandro Ling Meditation Hall. The entire dimensions are 67″ x 43″ while the print dimensions are 33″ x 22″. These three special thangkas are first-come-first-serve to those who donate $4,000 – click the links below! 8 Forms of Padmasambhava |
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Gift for All Donors As an additional Special Thanks, ALL year-end donors will receive a Free Guided Meditation Video from Pema Khandro Rinpoche. Donate Now and receive your Free Gift!
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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
Open Dates
Teachings on Death and Dying Facing realities of dying, death, and grief are central to our human experience. This program offers practical instructions for helping others in the process of dying and an overview of essential knowledge on death, bardo, and rebirth. This includes self-paced lectures on dying, loss, grief, and illness from Lamas and scholars of Buddhist Studies. Support the Buddhist Studies Institute by donating for these precious teachings. Your contribution, big and small, helps makes in-depth Buddhist training and education more accessible for all. May the teachings spread and flourish!
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Buddhism & Sexuality – Self Paced Course
With Dr. Nicole Willock, Julie Regan, Ph.D., Pema Khandro, Lama Willa Miller, Amy Langenberg , Dr. Ann Gleig, Dr. Nida Chenagtsang, Lama Rod Owens, Dr. Jim Hopper, Dr. Elizabeth Call and Damchö Diana Finnegan
Open Dates
Join Pema Khandro and a group of esteemed Buddhist Studies scholars for an exploration of the history of Buddhist Sexualities from celibacy, to sacred sexuality in Buddhist Tantra and a simple approach to embodied integration with nature in Dzogchen. Support the Buddhist Studies Institute by donating for these precious teachings. Your contribution, big and small, helps makes in-depth Buddhist training and education more accessible for all. May the teachings spread and flourish!
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Buddhist Ethics – Self Paced Course
With Pema Khandro
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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.
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
