New Dates Confirmed for Pema Khandro’s Return

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!

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!

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!

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…

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

March 6, 2018 by pemacom

Buddhist Yogis

As you may have heard, Pema Khandro’s flights were canceled this past weekend
due to a huge storm that hit the northeastern US, and all
Bay Area teachings had to be postponed.

New Dates are now set for Pema Khandro’s visit to the Bay Area in April!
In the meantime, join us for online classes and other new events,
please see below for all new dates and regularly scheduled classes.

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New Module – Starts this Wednesday

Vajrayana Training
with Pema Khandro

Brand New Format
1st Wednesdays – Online

This Weekend in Santa Cruz, CA

Introduction to Tibetan Dream Yoga
with Satya Shiva

March 11th, 1:00pm

at the Festival of Dreams

Santa Cruz, CA

2018 Calendar Events with Pema Khandro

Berkeley, CA
Apr 6 – Member Tea Reception, 6pm
Apr 6 – Awakening the Five Wisdoms, 7pm

Apr 7 – Calling the Five Dakinis, 10am-5pm
Apr 7 – Member Celebration, 7pm

Apr 8 – Vajra Sangha Retreat, 10am-4pm
Apr 8 – Milarepa Tsok with Gyaldak Rinpoche, 6pm

Residential Retreats
May 29 – Jun 3 – Chod Retreat, Jikoji Zen Center
Aug 14 – 19 – Dzogchen Meditation Retreat, Mount Madonna Center
Oct 19 – 21 – Vajra Sangha Retreat, Khandro Ling Retreat, Virginia

Teacher Training
Sep 13 – Oct 6 – Meditation Instructor Training, Online
Oct 22 – 25 – Group Leader Training, Khandro Ling Retreat, Virginia

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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 Varja Sangha students
4th Wed –  Open Teaching – Free for the Public

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