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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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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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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
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August 13, 2019 by pemacom

 

The Heart Sutra with Pema Khandro

August 16, 7pm
Nevada City, CA

The Heart Sutra contains the essence of esoteric Buddhist philosophy and it addresses the biggest questions of life from
the Buddhist perspective.

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The Innermost Heart of Freedom
Dzogchen Meditation Retreat with Pema Khandro

August 20 – 25, 2019
Tahoe National Forest

This is the fifth Annual Dzogchen Retreat, five days of Buddhist meditation practices that will surprise you with the wonderful power and expansiveness of mind. While deeply resting and supporting your body, you will experience Zhine and Semdzin, profound awareness holding techniques of Tibet’s Great Perfection teachings, Dzogchen. These are practices which include meditation on the five elements, are integrated with the extraordinary natural setting – the stunning landscape of Dakini Mountain, in Northern California’s Tahoe National Forest. The mountain, forest, and pond will give you the chance to rest and play in body and mind.

The practice and teachings will focus on the Tibetan Buddhist master Longchenpa’s Finding Comfort and Ease.
The retreat will include three practice sessions a day, Buddhist Philosophy teachings, Tibetan Yoga and free time for introspection and connection.
About the Teacher
The Dzogchen Retreat will be led by beloved Buddhist scholar and teacher, Pema Khandro Rinpoche. Pema Khandro is the founder of Ngakpa International, Dakini Mountain Retreat Center and three residential centers. She holds a master’s degree in Tibetan Studies and is completing a PhD specializing in Tibetan Buddhism.  Ordained in the Nyingma lineage, enthroned as a tulku, and trained as an academic, Pema Khandro’s teachings celebrate the dynamic coalescence of tradition and the modern context.

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Meditation Instructor Training – Online

Sept 14 – Oct 19, 2019
Online

The Meditation Instructor Training supplies the fundamental knowledge and experience necessary to lead meditation classes and one-day meditation intensives.

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Open Teaching: Excellent Path to Enlightenment

4th Wednesdays of Each Month
Online

Pema Khandro offers an open-free online guided meditation
each month on the fourth Wednesday of the month.
It is approximately half an hour with guided meditation and study of Excellent Path to Enlightenment, the guide to meditation by Longchenpa.

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Dzogchen Day Webcast

2nd Wednesdays at 6pm
Online

A 30 minute Guided meditation and discussion with Pema Khandro. This class is free and open to Buddhist Yogis Sangha Members only.

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Dzogchen is an esoteric Tibetan Buddhist Teaching that focuses on waking up to the goodness and wisdom within every human being. In the tradition of Buddhist Yogis, we prioritize the integration of this natural goodness with the full range of life experiences – so spiritual work does not disengage us from the world, it equips us to live more wakefully within it.

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Skillful Means Training – for Vajra Sangha Members

2nd Wednesdays, Aug 14 & Sept 11, 6:45pm PT
Online

Bring your Buddhist wisdom to your interpersonal relationships. Skillful means is a Buddhist term to describe wisdom in action on the most practical level. The course is based on Pema Khandro’s popular course, Practitioner Training, a series of lessons in the pragmatic techniques needed to live a sane, wakeful life. This is an online intensive training closed for Vajra Sangha only.

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Member Videos and Recordings

April 2019
Vajrayana Training – Sources of Refuge
Ngakpa Training 1.8 Namthars
Ngakpa Seminary 2.5 Longchen Nyingthig Bodhichitta, Vajrasattva

May 2019
Open Teaching – Excellent Path to Enlightenment
Buddhist Practice on Western Ground: Interview with Dr. Harvey Aronson
Dzogchen Day – Guided Meditation and Q&A for Members
Vajrayana Training – Ngondro: Dakini’s Heart Refuge Part 1
Ngakpa Training 1.9
Ngakpa Seminary 2.6

June 2019
Open Teaching – Excellent Path to Enlightenment
Vajrayana Training – Ngondro: Dakini’s Heart Refuge Part 2
Skillful Means Training – Coming Soon
100,000 Dakinis Retreat – Coming Soon

July 2019
Open Teaching – Excellent Path to Enlightenment – Coming Soon
Vajrayana Training – Dakini’s Heart Refuge Part 3: Buddhas of the 3 Times
Dzogchen Day – Guided Meditation and Q&A for Members
Skillful Means Training – Coming Soon
Ngakpa Training Level 1 – Coming Soon
Ngakpa Seminary Level 2 – Coming Soon

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2019 Year at a Glance

Nevada City
Aug 16  –  The Heart Sutra

Tahoe National Forest
Aug 21-25  –  Dzogchen Retreat: The Innermost Heart of Freedom

Online
Sept 14 -Oct 4  –  Meditation Instructor Training

Khandro Ling, Virginia
Oct 4  –  Open Teaching: Chod Empowerment
Oct 5  –  Open Retreat: Laughter of the Dakinis Chod
Oct 4-9  –  Vajra Sangha Retreat with Pema Khandro
Oct 11-13  –  Group Leader Training

*We weren’t able to get Chodpa Kunzang Dorje’s passport while in Nepal, so dates for his visit are still TDB.  We will update you as soon as we have any news.

2019 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 Seminary 2
4th  Wed  –  Open Teaching – Free for the Public
4th Wed   –  Ngakpa Training 1, Open to Vajra Sangha, 6:45pm PT

Meditation Mondays
Online Meditation & Discussion Groups

6:00pm PT with Janak Kimmel

1st  Mon  –  Presence as the Path
2nd Mon  –  Vajrayana LIVE
3rd  Mon  –  Presence as the Path
4th  Mon  –  Chod Group Practice

Presence as the Path is Open to All Buddhist Yogis Sangha Members

Dakini Mountain Grand Opening
Save the Date: May 31, 2020

Retreat with Pema Khandro:  May 26-31, 2020
Grand Opening Ceremony and Celebration:  May 31st, 2020

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