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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…

Six Yogas: Ancient Vajrayana Practices for Living and Dying

With Pema Khandro

November 7 - 9, 2025

The Six Yogas is a weekend training which includes in-depth training in the most cherished esoteric practices of Tibetan Buddhism. This course addresses the core issues facing a life, and presents potent methods for integrating spiritual practice into every day life. The system includes meditations for living, dreaming, and dying. It features the practice of Tummo, or Inner Fire meditation, Illusory Body practice, Dream Yoga, Clear Light Meditation, Bardo, the dying practices and Phowa, the transference of consciousness at the time of death. Each practice is part of an overarching system for experiencing liminality, change, and uncertainty in states of…

March 31, 2018 by pemacom

Year at a Glance
2018 Calendar Events with Pema Khandro

Berkeley, CA
Apr 6 – Member Tea Reception, 6pm
Apr 6 – Awakening the Five Wisdoms, 7pm

Apr 7 – Calling the Five Dakinis, 10am-5pm
Apr 7 – Member Celebration, 7pm

Apr 8 –  Vajra Sangha Retreat, 10am-4pm
Apr 8 –  Milarepa Tsok with Gyaldak Rinpoche, 6pm

Residential Retreats
May 29 – Jun 3 –  Vajrayana Meditation Retreat: Chod, Jikoji Zen Center
Aug 14 – 19 –  Dzogchen Meditation Retreat, Mount Madonna Center
Oct 19 – 21 – Vajra Sangha Retreat, Khandro Ling Retreat, Virginia

Teacher Training
Sep 13 – Oct 6 – Meditation Instructor Training, Online
Oct 22 – 25 – Group Leader Training, Khandro Ling Retreat, Virginia

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 Training for Varja Sangha students
4th Wed –  Open Teaching – Free for the Public

Year at a Glance 2018 Calendar Events with Pema Khandro

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Year at a Glance
2018 Calendar Events with Pema Khandro