Vajrayana Training Dates for 2017

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…

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.

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.

December 18, 2016 by Khandro News

Bodhichitta is enlightened Intent, the wish for our own and others’ awakening. By cultivating Bodhichitta – the enlightened intent – we resolve to live from a vision of wakefulness, love and knowledge for all. But Bodhichitta is more than just an idea we have – it is a commitment to meditation as a way of being, a commitment to positive action – to show up to our world both as it is and to show up for what it can be. – Pema Khandro

Vajrayana Training Dates have now been set for 2017.

The Vajrayana Training classes will officially be moved to Wednesday evenings – beginning January 4th at 9pm EST/6pm PST.

The reason for the change from Saturdays, is in order to have a steady calendar throughout the year, even if there are retreats or while Pema Khandro Rinpoche is in Tibet or traveling in other time zones. This time allows east coast, west coast and Tibet times to all synch up at a reasonable hour.

The classes will be held on the first Wednesday of every month – beginning January 4th at 9pm EST/6pm PST. Volunteers are currently posting these live to the calendars at BuddhistYogis.org and PemaKhandro.org

Students who are enrolled in the training will continue to have access to videos and slides of the classes after the class, so if you are unable to join Pema Khandro Rinpoche live for the study session – you will still be able to watch on your own time.

VajrayanaLIVE – the discussion group led by Teaching Assistants will continue to be on the Thursday following the Vajrayana Training class.

To learn more about Vajrayana Training with Pema Khandro Rinpoche Click Here.

Related Changes
This change will also affect Ngakpa Seminary which will now be moved to the third Wednesday of every month. Ngakpa Seminary is for the Vajra Sangha, who are students enrolled as Pema Khandro’s long-term students.

Additionaly, Pema Khandro Rinpoche will be offering two additional online classes every month, also falling on Wednesdays – at the same time, Wednesdays 9pm EST/6pm PST. Dakini Day will be a guided meditation, open to the public. Dzogchen Day will be a guided meditation and discussion for Buddhist Yogis Sangha members only.

Therefore the calendar for
monthly online classes
with Pema Khandro Rinpoche will now be:

1st Wednesday Vajrayana Training

(Vajrayana Training Students Only)

2nd Wednesday Dzogchen Day

(Members Only)

3rd Wednesday Ngakpa Training

(VajraSangha Only)

4th Wednesday Dakini Day

Meditation Class (Free and Open to the Public)

5th Wednesdays (when a 5th Wednesday occurs)

Bodhisattva Training

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