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!
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…
I am delighted to invite you to a weekend that is very close to my heart. On December 5 and 6, my colleague Dr. David Germano will join me at the Buddhist Studies Institute for Dzogchen and the Body, a close study of Longchenpa’s Treasury of Words and Meanings (tshig don mdzod).
David is one of the foremost scholars of Longchenpa in the world. His own doctoral research centered on this very text, and his decades of work at the University of Virginia have shaped how the Great Perfection is understood in the West. It is a real joy to explore these pages alongside him.
Our focus is the Fourth Vajra Topic, where Longchenpa asks a question that sounds simple and turns out to be profound: where does wisdom actually abide? His answer is startling. The enlightened bodies and primordial wisdoms (sku dang ye shes) are not somewhere far away. They abide within the human body itself, at the heart center and throughout a subtle anatomy of channels and luminous energy.
This is Dzogchen at its most intimate. It invites us to see the body, the material world, and the environment we live in not as obstacles to awakening, but as the very places where wisdom is already present.
Together we will explore what Longchenpa actually says, what it meant in fourteenth-century Tibet, and how it can inform contemplative practice today. We meet online for two mornings, and every session is recorded, so you can join from anywhere in the world.
I would be so glad to have you with us to explore one of the most important texts of this tradition!
SAVE THE DATE Buddhism After #MeToo Open to Participants in the Yogini’s Programs & Members of BSI Wednesday, November 18th, 5-6:30pm PT with Pema Khandro, PhD
Dzogchen and the Body Longchenpa’s Treasury of Words and Meanings Sat & Sun December 5-6, 9am-1pm PT with David Germano, PhD and Pema Khandro, PhD
SAVE THE DATE Pema Khandro’s Birthday Celebration! Tantric Feast + Sacred Thangkas from Bhutan + Community Online – Saturday, December 5th, 5-7pm PT
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