Entries by Buddhist Studies Institute

Pema Khandro’s Birthday Celebration

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Buddhist Studies Institute The 21 TarasPema Khandro’s Birthday Celebration & Fundraiser December 2, 2023 Online 6pm – 7:30pm PT San Francisco 9pm – 10:30pm ET New York 1pm- 2:30pm AEDT Sydney The twenty-one taras is a sublime chanting meditation and praise of the forms of the female Bodhisattva Tara, each one a contemplation […]

Technology Fundraising Update

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Buddhist Studies Institute Dear Friends, Greetings from the Buddhist Studies Institute! I hope this message finds you in good health and spirit. I am writing to you today to share some exciting news and ask for your support in this year’s fundraising drive.  As you may know, Buddhist Studies Institute is a 501c3 […]

Heart Sutra Early Enrollment Ends Tomorrow

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Buddhist Studies Institute The Heart Sutra with Pema Khandro & Shugen Roshi December 1 – 3 Online 9am PST San Francisco | 12pm EST New York | 5pm GMT London The Heart Sutra for more than two thousand years has been chanted daily by Buddhists around the world. Known as Prajnaparamita, the Heart […]

Bardo Retreat Starts Tomorrow

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Buddhist Studies Institute The Bardo RetreatTeachings on Death & Dying November 3-5 Online 5pm PT San Francisco | 8pm ET New York | 11am AET Sydney 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 […]

Season of Practice Begins Tomorrow

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Buddhist Studies Institute The Bardo RetreatTeachings on Death & Dying November 3-5 Online 5pm PT San Francisco | 8pm ET New York | 11am AET Sydney 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 […]

Season of Practice

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Buddhist Studies Institute The Bardo RetreatTeachings on Death & Dying November 3-5 Online 5pm PT San Francisco | 8pm ET New York | 11am AET Sydney 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 […]

Buddhist Practices for Death & Dying

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Buddhist Studies Institute The Bardo Retreat: Teachings on Death & Dying November 3-5 Online 5pm PT San Francisco | 8pm ET New York | 11am AET Sydney 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 […]

Residential Opening at Dakini Mountain

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* View this email in your browser Dear Sangha, We currently have a residential opening at Dakini Mountain, in the Tahoe National Forest, outside of Nevada City. We are currently offering the ground floor to potential resident/s for a minimum of 3-6 month contract starting December 1st, 2023. This is in the lodge that […]

Buddhist Practices for Death & Dying

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Buddhist Studies Institute The Bardo Retreat: Buddhist practices for death & dying November 3-5 Online with Pema Khandro 5pm PT San Francisco | 8pm ET New York | 11am AET Sydney Facing realities of dying, death, and grief are central to our human experience. This program offers practical instructions for helping others in […]

Starts Tomorrow – Dakini’s Secret Tantra

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Buddhist Studies Institute The Black Wrathful Dakini’s Secret Tantra With Lama Pema Khandro, Ph.D. October 6-8th, 2023Online 9:00am-12:00pm San Francisco PT 12:00pm -3:00pm New York ET 5:00pm-8:00pm London BT The meditation practice of the black wrathful Dakini, Troma Nagmo, unlocks the innermost wisdom mind. Troma Nagmo is the fiercely compassionate form of Vajrayogini. […]

Dakini’s Secret Tantra Starts Friday!

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Buddhist Studies Institute The Black Wrathful Dakini’s Secret Tantra With Lama Pema Khandro, Ph.D. October 6-8th, 2023Online 9:00am-12:00pm San Francisco PT 12:00pm -3:00pm New York ET 5:00pm-8:00pm London BT This is a rare opportunity to study excerpts from the Troma text held within the original Dzogchen tantras known as the seventeen tantras, the […]

Members Only Class this Wednesday

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Buddhist Studies Institute Members Only Class with Pema Khandro, Janak and Aruna Buddhism & Sexuality: Clarifying Consent Wednesday September 27th, 2023 5pm PT / 8pm ET A conversation with Pema Khandro, Janak, and Aruna on creating a safe community for non-celibate practitioners.   For Members and Participants of the Buddhism & Sexuality Series […]

Fierce Compassion & Primordial Knowing – Dakini’s Secret Tantra

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Buddhist Studies Institute The Black Wrathful Dakini’s Secret Tantra With Lama Pema Khandro, Ph.D. Online: October 6-8th, 2023 9am -12pm San Francisco PDT 12pm – 3pm New York EDT 11am – 2pm Sydney AEDT Tantra and Dzogchen with their themes of transformation and being exactly we as are can sometimes seem contradictory. Yet […]

The Black Wrathful Dakini’s Secret Tantra

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Buddhist Studies Institute The Black Wrathful Dakini’s Secret Tantra With Lama Pema Khandro, Ph.D. October 6-8th, 2023 Online 9:00am-12:00pm PST 12:00pm -3:00pm EST 5:00pm-8:00pm BST Tantra and Dzogchen with their themes of transformation and being exactly we as are can sometimes seem contradictory. Yet they represent two profound paths to contemplative realization that […]

Starts Tomorrow – Retreat with Pema Khandro

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Buddhist Studies Institute Finding Rest & Ease in the Nature of Mind:  Longchenpa’s Guide with Pema KhandroSeptember 8-10th 2023 Online 8:00am-12:30pm PST San Francisco 11:00pm -3:30pm EST New York 4:00pm-8:30pm BST London Why online Buddhist Study? This retreat is led entirely online. We believe that online dharma study provides access for in depth practice […]

Finding Rest & Ease Online – Starts Friday!

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Buddhist Studies Institute Finding Rest & Ease in the Nature of Mind:  Longchenpa’s Guide to Dzogchen with Pema Khandro September 8-10th 2023 Online 8:00am-12:30pm PST 11:00pm -3:30pm EST 4:00pm-8:30pm BST Unplug. Disconnect. Take space for inner silence. Enjoy the soothing sound of chanting meditation. Enjoy deep dharma study. Encounter the profound instructions of the […]

Letter from Pema Khandro

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Buddhist Studies Institute Letter from Pema Khandro Dear Dharma Friends, I remember one morning listening to a dharma teaching in Tibet. It was an out of the way temple hidden in the mountains. Hundreds of people had finished a ngondro retreat together. There were yogis everywhere, not just men like in a monastery, […]

Module 4 Ngondro Training Begins Today!

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Buddhist Studies Institute Longchen Nyingthig Ngondro Training Module 4 Intrinsic Wisdom with Lama Pema Khandro, PhD and Tsalgyur Dorje Starts Monday, August 21st – Online 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern Take your meditation practice to the next level through the classic system of Vajrayana meditation known as Ngondro. Module Four of Ngondro presents […]

Ngondro Training starts next week!

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Buddhist Studies Institute Longchen Nyingthig Ngondro Training Module 4 Intrinsic Wisdom with Lama Pema Khandro, PhD and Umdze Tsalgyur Dorje Starts Monday, August 21st – Online 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern Through the Buddhist Studies Institute, Pema Khandro has made your successful practice her top priority.  And perhaps the most seminal of the […]

Intrinsic Wisdom- Ngondro Training Module 4

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Buddhist Studies Institute Longchen Nyingthig Ngondro Training Module 4 Intrinsic Wisdom Starts Monday, August 21st – Online 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern It is possible to join Ngondro Training at any time and it can be taken in any order. Join current modules live and take previous modules at your own pace. This […]