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
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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!
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
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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!
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!
With Holly Gayley, Judith Simmer-Brown, Sarah Jacoby, Amy Langenberg , Damchö Diana Finnegan, Venerable Karma Lekshe Tsomo and Pema Khandro
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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…
Build your life on a solid foundation. Ngondro presents the core practices of Buddhist psychology, working with core needs in identity, relationality, forgiveness and repair, resources and the sense of empowerment. Join Pema Khandro and the Buddhist Studies Institute for a journey into Ngondro, the core practice of Buddhist tantra. This module focuses on the purification of speech as the basis for Buddhist tantric practice. It then focuses on generating the refuge field. This is a practice of getting resourced, learning one’s own lineage and understanding the field of support for one’s spiritual journey. This section concludes with a…
Meditation Teacher Training 2025 For Teachers Beholding a Diverse Beautiful World The Meditation Teacher Training supplies the fundamental knowledge and experience necessary to lead meditation classes and one-day meditation intensives. People all over the world have turned to Buddhist meditation as a source of wisdom. Meditation offers a powerful method to access a sense of spaciousness, peace and authentic presence. From a Buddhist point of view, when we know how to meditate, we learn how to work with mind and emotions. We have a practice for unraveling conditioned scripts and unconscious habits. Meditation is a pathway to discovering human…
All are welcome to join Pema Khandro for our annual Tibetan Lunar New Year Celebration This is a free online program; open to the public. Vajrakilaya Dances Performed Losar Address with Pema Khandro Celebration of 21-Day Meditation Marathoners Dedications of Merit Year of the Wood Snake Begins! Donate below any amount to celebrate The Buddhist Studies Institute’s mission to help the Buddhist Teachings flourish.
Beyond effort and achievement is the state of natural ease, the basic space of being. How to breakthrough to find this innate expanse is the focus of a profound Buddhist meditation manual known as The Treasury of Basic Space, The Choying Dzod (chos dbyings rin po che’i mdzod). It presents the essence of esoteric Tibetan Buddhism, known as Great Perfection, or Dzogchen (rdzogs chen) in verse form. Venerated as a manifestation of the expanse of reality itself, is the quintessential Dzogchen text by the fourteenth century master, Longchenpa. It refers to the expanse of reality and pure experience of meaningfulness as the revelation…
We currently have a residential opening at Dakini Mountain, in the Tahoe National Forest, outside of Nevada City.
We are currently offering the ground floor to potential resident/s for a minimum of 3-6 month contract starting December 1st, 2023.
This is in the lodge that hosts Dakini Mountain and Buddhist Studies Institute headquarters upstairs.
It is the independent retreat home you have dreamed about! This spacious home is steel framed on over 35 beautiful acres, serene and private, isolated and surrounded by nature. This is your opportunity to escape the ordinary and urban life, solitude offers an opportunity to inspire your spiritual practice and creativity in the quiet of this setting.
Off the grid, and fully self-sufficient. Enjoy the sunshine and a lovely refreshing clean mountain air setting in the great outdoors, with hiking, mountain biking, equestrian and Nordic trails nearby, and just a few minutes to Yuba River swimming holes and Scotts Flat Lake boating activities—only 30 minutes to world-class skiing and less than 90 minutes to Sacramento or Reno airports. Sugar Bowl is just 29 miles up the road. Lying within the Tahoe National Forest, it has ready access to a recreation paradise. Skillman Horse Campground and Chalk Bluff OHV (Off-highway vehicles) staging area are minutes away, so bring your dirt bike. Stunning Harmony Ridge and Scotts Flat Reservoirs a short distance to the west.
The resident or couple would have an entire 1600 square foot floor of the eco-lux retreat center to live surrounded by the beauty of nature. Grand and large open great room with a wall of windows overlooking the spacious grounds and a panoramic vista has central heating and a wood burning stove for extra winter warmth. Luxury master bedroom and full bath. Perfect for online business owners as high-speed Starlink internet is included. Starlink enables video calls, online streaming, and other high data rate activities. Includes indoor garage space and outdoor parking, access to outdoor kitchen and stage, ample storage space, and dog-friendly!
Must be winter snow savvy! Must be enthusiastic about being in a rugged environment!
Great location for snow-lovers.
Dakini Mountain is a gorgeous place to have a quiet white winter retreat. Must have 4-wheel drive or all-wheel drive car. No smoking, drugs, parties.
Single Resident: $2275 *includes utilities: power, water, internet
Couple: $2975 *includes utilities: power, water, internet
Partial work-trade discount is also available for skilled handi-person/s with snow or snow-plowing experience, based on skill level and availability for work-trade.
Interested applicants, please fill out this short form: