Today is Rinpoche’s Birthday!

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…

21 Taras Pema Khandro Birthday Fundraiser

With Pema Khandro

December 4, 2024

Join us for the 21 Taras. The twenty-one taras is a sublime chanting meditation and praise of the forms of the female Bodhisattva Tara, each one a contemplation of all the forms of compassion ranging from gentle to fierce. This event explores the outer, inner and secret meaning of the twenty-one taras. This will be a joyous fundraiser in honor of our beloved Pema Khandro Rinpoche’s birthday. Wednesday, December 4th 6 pm pt | 9 pm et

December 16, 2019 by pemacom

Today we have the great honor and good fortune to wish Pema Khandro Rinpoche our happiest birthday wishes and gratitude for her life, her teachings, and her contribution to this world.

Every year, the Members of Ngakpa International join together and offer 24 hours of Rinpoche’s Long Life Wish Prayer. We invite you to join us in this joyous offering.

Click Here to Read Pema Khandro Rinpoche’s Long Life Prayer

Every year, Rinpoche expresses her birthday wish – that Dakini Mountain and Ngakpa International could continue to be supported so that Buddhism may flourish in North America and beyond.

If you would like to offer Rinpoche a birthday gift, she requests all offerings be in support of the Dakini Mountain fundraiser.

Click here to Donate Now for Pema Khandro Rinpoche’s Birthday

Our Goal is to raise $5000 for Rinpoche’s Birthday, by the coming Solstice & Dakini Day, December 21st. Please help us honor Pema Khandro Rinpoche’s birth and life with Long Life Prayers and offerings of support for her beautiful vision.

This birthday week will culminate in a solstice celebration and evening of inspiration and community in Nevada City, California. All friends and Members are invited to join us for this festive occasion! Click here to Register Now

This inspirational semi-formal evening will include a Live Webcast with Pema Khandro Rinpoche, Live Music with the songstress Marya Stark, Buddhist Art Show and Thangka Sale brought to us from the Lotus Gallery in Nepal.

December 22nd, 5:30pm – 9pm
Inner Path – 200 Commercial Street, Nevada City, CA

SCHEDULE
5:30pm – VIP Pre-Party
7pm – Webcast with Pema Khandro Rinpoche
8pm – Live Music with Marya Stark
9pm – Thangka Sale Closes

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For those who cannot attend the event but wish to support Pema Khandro’s birthday wish, Ngakpa International and Dakini Mountain Fundraising, Please Click Here to Donate Now

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