New Year’s Message from Pema Khandro & Janak

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

LETTER FROM PEMA KHANDRO

Dear Dharma Friends,

Happy New Year!

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In the midst of this pandemic and so many cases of coronavirus in our communities may resilience, courage, health and healing dawn.

May we remember compassion for ourselves and others in all things we do.

May this year be full of increasing kindness, wisdom, healthy boundaries, healthy bodies and all manner of good fortune.

Sending millions of White Tara mantras to everyone along with a heart-felt thank you to all who donated for our Dakini Mountain fundraiser!

Stay tuned for an update on our fundraiser from Janak below.

My very best to you always,

THIS IS THE YEAR YOU MEDITATE EVERY DAY

This is the year to make time for your spiritual life.

Pandemic. Climate change. The mainstreaming of hate. These are not the times to ignore your inner life. Your spirituality and your peace of mind will be your anchor in times of crisis, will be a resource when others are in need. And you don’t have to do this alone. Start your daily meditation today with our worldwide community. It’s free. It’s short. It’s beautiful.

THIS IS THE YEAR YOU FINISH NGONDRO

Give yourself the power of in-depth training in Tibetan Tantric Meditation.

Find clarity
Get free from negative karma
Transform your body and mind
Become a resource of altruism and compassion for your world
Ask the big questions
Ask the hard questions

This is the community support and the in-depth training you need to finish ngondro.

Join Pema Khandro for a year long ngondro program beginning January 24, 2022.

The training includes self-paced modules, live webinars and Monday night community ngondro sessions led by Tsal’gyur.

THIS IS THE YEAR YOU GIVE YOURSELF THE GIFT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY

Be the clarity and wisdom in chaotic times.

Do deep inner work.

Engage vigorous inquiry into reality.

Draw on the profound resources of 2,500 years of Buddhist insight.

Vajrayana Training is our core community for ongoing dharma study, a vibrant learning community, part lecture, part dialogue, part Tibetan meditation. A place to learn, grow and engage in Buddhist study with a vastly opened mind.

Taught by scholar and teacher, Pema Khandro, Vajrayana Training offers a rare opportunity of traditional study and practice in direct engagement with the pressing issues of our time.

Meets 1st and 2nd Wednesdays of every month online.

LETTER FROM JANAK – FUNDRAISING NEWS

Dear Friends and Members,

With immense gratitude, I thank you for your generosity in supporting the 2021 Dakini Mountain Fundraising goal of $50,000.

We got very, very close, raising $48, 932!

Only $1062 short of our goal!

Dakini Mountain is the physical seat of Pema Khandro and her teachings. And it’s your place for retreat, community, and inspiration. And yet, Dakini Mountain is more than a place, it’s a vision.

It’s a vision of fostering gender equality in Buddhism, respect for diversity, learning to put empathy into our embodiment of compassion, learning skills of non-violent communication, raising our standard of ethics in today’s world, making meditation and Buddhist teachings accessible, and keeping Buddhism vital into the 21st century and beyond.

You have helped sustain and enliven this vision and bring it to reality.

Our world so much needs this way of living. We need it so much.

May all your good actions bring plentiful good karma and blessings to you in this new year.

If you did not get a chance to donate in 2021 but want to do so now to help us meet the

goal, you can use the button below.

Gifts can also be made by check, payable to Ngakpa International, and mailed to Dakini Mountain, P.O. Box 2396, Nevada City, California 95959, USA.

Ngakpa International is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit EIN 68-0529687 and all gifts are tax deductible as allowed by law.

For more information about Dakini Mountain, visit www.DakiniMountain.org

Wishing you a Happy and Healthy 2022!

Janak

Director of Fundraising

Ngakpa International

Buddhist Studies Institute

Dakini Mountain Retreat Center

P.O. Box 2396

Nevada City, California 95946

USA

LETTER FROM PEMA KHANDRO

THIS IS THE YEAR YOU MEDITATE EVERY DAY

THIS IS THE YEAR YOU FINISH NGONDRO

THIS IS THE YEAR YOU GIVE YOURSELF THE GIFT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY

LETTER FROM JANAK – FUNDRAISING NEWS

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