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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

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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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.    
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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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Deep rest. Lucid stillness. Spacious ground.

Join us for

The Annual Summer Meditation Retreat
with Pema Khandro Rinpoche

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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/

Contact

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