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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…

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.

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

December 4, 2016 by pemacom

Dear Buddhist Yogis,

On behalf of all of the people who received sublime teachings from Pema Khandro Rinpoche, and our guest lamas this year, thank you! Thank you for helping to provide a direct and personal experience of Vajrayana. In addition, we supported Ngakpa schools in the Tibet and the orphanage in India, in order to give back to the source.

Thanks to you we were able to offer 114 programs in 2016. This was 47 more programs than in 2015!

I recently spoke with two of our Members who told me about how they had been searching and praying for a connection, a way to receive the teachings from a qualified teacher and for a community with which to bond. They spoke about feeling relief from the isolation experienced as an authentic dharma seeker in the seemingly barren spiritual desert of their small city. They also told me of how grateful and lucky they felt to have finally found their community, and of the joy they felt in finding an answer to their heartfelt prayers.

Every day your support makes stories like these possible. Would you be willing to make a special year-end donation of $50, $100 or whatever you can afford to help us sustain the lineage of Buddhist Yogis? Your donations are tax-deductible, and we’ve included a special gift for you (see below) as a way to say thank you for your kind donation. We simply can’t do it without you. Your financial support will make a real, immediate, and lasting impact to help Pema Khandro and the Buddhist Yogis Thrive.

We have set a year-end fundraising goal of $18,000 to retire the debt that we owe due to changes in non-profit laws that significantly affected our organization. We are planning fundraising activities in 2017 that will retire the remainder of this debt. (Members Please click here for more information and to review the yearly financial reports for 2015 and 2016.)

Pema Khandro Rinpoche has offered us an unprecedented level of in-depth education and training in esoteric Buddhist teachings of Tantra and Dzogchen. This has been a massive effort and an expression of the tireless generosity of our beloved teacher. But she cannot do this alone – your help is needed to make the continuation of this mission possible.

Please click here to make your donation now. The three jewels of Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha, are reasons for joy and hope in dark times! Giving great thanks to our precious teacher who has made the nectar of true peace available to each of us.

During this period of fear, hatred and tension in our nation, the teachings of the Buddhist Yogis are needed more than ever – so that we can manifest the healing power of spiritual wisdom in the world – so that we know it is possible to live lives full of peace, mutual empowerment and inspiration – so that wisdom can be nourished.

Stand with Pema Khandro and stand with our lineage – Donate Now to support and ensure the future of Ngakpa Int’l.

Thank you for your ongoing friendship and support.

With gratitude,

Satya D. Shiva

Chief Operations Officer

Ngakpa International

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Your donations are tax-deductible, and we’ve included a special gift for you (please see below) as a way to say thank you for your kind donation.

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Ngakpa_International_logo_small Gift: Audio teaching with Pema Khandro “Cultivating Lasting Change”

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Gift – Small Padmasambhava Thangka from Pema Khandro’s Collection
This thangka shows the Tantric Buddha.

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This Thangka shows Yeshe Tsogyal in her Vajrayogini Form. (SOLD)

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Gift – Medium Shakyamuni Buddha Thangka print from *Tibet. (SOLD)

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Gift – Medium Green Tara Thangka print from Tibet (SOLD)

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Gift – Medium Padmasambhava Thangka print from Tibet
with the Female Buddhas Yeshe Tsogyal and Mandarava

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Gift – Medium Buddha Under Bodhi Tree Thangka print from Tibet

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Gift – Large 8 Forms of Padmasambhava Thangka
from Pema Khandro’s private CollectionThis has been in Pema Khandro’s personal shrine room for ten years.

Painted in Nepal, it shows all the eight forms of Padmasambhava, who is known as the Tantric Buddha and founding father of Tibetan Buddhism. It also includes the Female Buddha Yeshe Tsogyal and Mandarava.

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