Pema Khandro Teaching in Berkeley Tonight

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…

Ngondro Module 3 – Mandala Offering

With Pema Khandro

June 30 - September 7, 2025

Ngondro means ‘before going.’ In traditional Vajrayana practice, it represents the cognitive, physical, emotional and philosophical components which are keys to the practice of liberation. It is the basis for all Vajrayana practice and thus it is used as a the pre-requisite for the great practices of the Vajrayana tradition. However, ngondro itself is a beloved meditation series for its own sake. It is often practiced many times throughout a life cycle by great yogis of the Nyingma tradition such as Patrul Rinpoche (eighteenth century). Pema Khandro offers Ngondro teachings for serious students who wish to do intensive contemplative…

Dear Friends,
We are overjoyed to invite you to a class tonight with Pema Khandro Rinpoche. She will offer a public class tonight in Berkeley, California!

The program is tonight, Friday May 25, at 7pm at the MahaSiddha Center, 2328 Channing Way, Berkeley, California, a few blocks from UC Berkeley. It is free and open to the public (with a suggested donation of $15-$20 to support our non-profit organization!) All are welcome. Click Here for More Info

About Pema Khandro

Pema Khandro is a Tibetan Buddhist teacher, scholar and humanitarian, specializing in the philosophy and practice of Tibet’s Buddhist Yogis and their Dzogchen teachings. Ordained in the Nyingma lineage, enthroned as a tulku, and trained as an academic, her teachings celebrate the dynamic coalescence of tradition and the modern context. Pema Khandro is the founder of Ngakpa International, the Yogic Medicine Institute and three residential centers. For more information visit www.PemaKhandro.org

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Meditation Retreat with Pema Khandro
May 29 – Jun 3

Jikoji Zen Center, Santa Cruz Mountains

This meditation retreat focuses on Tibetan Buddhism’s esoteric practice for transforming the most difficult experiences into opportunities for awakening, known as “Cutting Through” or Chod.

Chod is a dynamic meditation practice cherished by every lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. It incorporates, vision, mantra, prayer, music, and ritual to cultivate open-hearted presence as the path to non-dual awareness.

It is also a Buddhist method for healing and transforming the hidden content within one’s own mind to release past traumas, undigested emotions and transform difficult experiences.

It is an ideal meditation practice for Vajrayana practitioners to train in because Chod includes every Vajrayana practice in its most essential form: refuge, bodhichitta, mandala offering, deity yoga, guru yoga, illusory body practice, transference of consciousness (Phowa) and more.

The retreat will alternate between teachings on Buddhist philosophy, training in Chod, dynamic meditation practice and silent sitting meditation. It will include instructions on:

How to use the instruments, drum, bell and thigh-bone trumpet
Chanting the Laughter of the Dakinis Chod in Tibetan & English
The visualization and meaning behind Chod
Black Vajrayogini Meditation
The Chod technique for working with emotions and subconscious mind
The song of the Dakinis of the five directions
Dzogchen and Chod – Buddhist philosophy on the nature of mind
Silent sitting meditation, the direct path to finding calm and quiet
The history and significance of the Longchen Nyingthig, the Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse

The retreat will begin on Saga Dawa, May 29th, the day of the Buddha’s birth, death and enlightenment, the most important day of the year to be doing intensive contemplative practice. It will continue until June 3rd.

The retreat will be held in the beautiful redwood forest in North California, just outside Santa Cruz, at Jikoji Zen Center. At 2350 ft. elevation in the Santa Cruz mountains, the property has many unique features, such as a large pond (or small lake), places to pitch a tent (in addition to hostel type accommodations), and miles of hiking trails in the surrounding 1800 acres of Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District.

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Upcoming Events with Pema Khandro

Public Teaching
May 25, 7pm – Love in Times of Hate, Berkeley MahaSiddha Center

Residential Retreats
May 29 – Jun 3 – Vajrayana Meditation Retreat: Chod, 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

Weekly Online Classes
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

Meditation Retreat with Pema Khandro May 29 – Jun 3

Upcoming Events with Pema Khandro

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Meditation Retreat with Pema Khandro
May 29 – Jun 3