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Pema Khandro’s Birthday Celebration

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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PEMA KHANDRO’S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION

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You are Invited!
Wednesday, December 15th
6pm PT | 9pm ET
 

Join us to celebrate the pioneering work and life of Pema Khandro founder of Ngakpa International, the Buddhist Studies Institute and Dakini Mountain. Pema Khandro is a scholar of Tibetan Buddhism, a lineage holder of the Nyingma and Kagyu lineages, and the head teacher for our dharma school for the last two decades. On this birthday, we will celebrate her pioneering work for women in Buddhism, Buddhism in North America and the future of the ngakpa tradition.

All Members and friends are invited to join us for an evening of 

  • White Tara practice led by Pema Khandro 
  • Tsok Offering led by the Group leaders
  • A talk by Pema Khandro about her life’s work
  • Performances by community members
  • Pema Khandro appreciation ceremony
  • Fundraising for Dakini Mountain

Every year on Pema Khandro’s birthday, the community celebrates together. This year, due to the pandemic, this event will be online we cordially invite you to join us on this special heart-felt occasion.

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Photo Credit: Pema Khandro’s White Tara Thangka from Khandro Ling

White Tara 

White Tara meditation is a meditation done for freedom from calamities and world peace in the times of climate crisis and pandemic. White Tara is the great soother of difficulties and the method for remembering innate peace. The previous Pema Khandro was considered to be an emanation of White Tara and Vajryogini so this practice has a special power for our community as the continuation of a heritage of an indigenous Buddhist woman lineage holder from Tibet, being continued by an indigenous woman in the West. Pema Khandro will lead the White Tara meditation based on the meditation that she translated and redacted for the Women’s March in Washington D. C. 2017. This is a short, potent, beautiful White Tara practice in English with a mudra and melodies for accessible practice. Pema Khandro will give the “lung” or spoken initiation into the practice and lead the meditation. Texts will be available after registration.

Tsok Offering

The northern treasures short tsok is the tantric feast practice that expresses the dynamic reality of co-emerging emptiness-appearance, the worldview that is the hallmark of Buddhist Tantra. It is a prayer with mudras, visualization and mantra to make offerings of vast generosity and open-heartedness as a gesture of gratitude, virtue and interdependence between the ourselves, the earth and all the benevolence of the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Protectors and Dakinis.

Birthday Wish

Pema Khandro’s birthday wish is for all the proceeds to go to the Dakini Mountain Emergency Fund.

Dakini Mountain is a retreat center that Pema Khandro dreamed about for decades and now it has come to fruition but relies on your support for its continuation. Due to the temporary suspension of group retreats at Dakini Mountain as a result of the pandemic, this year’s fundraiser is more important than ever! Join us for this opportunity to celebrate Pema Khandro’s birthday, fundraise for this amazing project and practice meditation and tsok together in a vibrant Vajrayana community.

Can’t come in person but still want to support the fundraiser? Register to join anyway, your donations are greatly appreciated and a thank you card with all the list of the donors will be read at the end to Pema Khandro of the evening!

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UPCOMING EVENTS

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Daily & Weekly Programs

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As more details roll out for our Upcoming Events, please visit the Event List Here.

SELF-PACED COURSES

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Self-Paced Course Online
Open Teaching – No Prerequisites
The Five Buddhist Precepts are a discipline of freedom, honor, openness and precision that cover the potent themes of a Tantric’s life from the uncommon, extraordinary perspective of non-duality. Topics covered in this course include vegetarian lifestyle, meat-eating, alcohol and drug use, conscious use of sexual energy, working with desire, handling resources, money and spirituality, honesty, and the speech that takes us beyond confusion.

LION’S ROAR ARTICLE

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Be Kind To Yourself
By Pema Khandro Rinpoche | February 4, 2021
 
“You have enlightened nature,” says Pema Khandro Rinpoche. “If you truly know that, you’ll always be kind to yourself.”

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