Khandro rinpoche biography of william

  • Pema khandro age
  • Gyaldak rinpoche
  • Female tulku

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    Buddhist Studies Institute

    Join us for this special event, the Vajrayogini Empowerment, an initiation into the inner tantra practice of generation stage meditation ~ led by Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche and Lama Pema Khandro. Vajrayogini is the female buddha embodying radical presence. To practice Vajrayogini meditation fryst vatten to cut through to innermost wisdom and innate clarity.

    This exceptional schema will feature three half-days of instructions, empowerment and meditations of Vajrayogini. It will be led bygd Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche who will give the empowerment and Lama Pema Khandro who will give the instructions for practice.

    Pre-requisites: This event is open to the public. In order to practice the generation scen Vajrayogini meditation, Drupon Rinpoche requires that one must have completed the ngondro, or preliminary practices, of Vajrayana first. One may, however, receive the empowerment and teachings before completin

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    Pema Khandro’s career as a Buddhist scholar and teacher emerged from a lifelong journey through eastern philosophy, Buddhism, Himalayan medicine and Yoga which led her throughout North America, Europe, India, Nepal and Tibet. This page includes Pema Khandro’s biography, the extended version. It covers five topics: the early years, study, practice, and enthronement, women in Buddhism, teaching activities, and academic interests. Read more about her recognition and enthronement here.

    1. Early Years

    Pema Khandro first learned Buddhist meditation when she was five and trained with her Buddhist teachers for a decade into her teens. She recalls learning meditation as a child while sitting with her teacher, who taught her to count her thoughts. Her teachers taught her Buddhist principles in simple ways emphasizing that the goal of Buddhism was to find what is already here, but had not been noticed. She saw her teachers on an almost daily basis and this was the beginning of

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    Pema Khandro is a scholar-practitioner and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism. She is the founder of the non-profit organization Ngakpa International and oversees its projects, the Dakini Mountain Retreat Center,  the Buddhist Studies Institute and the Yogic Medicine Institute.

    Pema Khandro’s academic work specializes in the history of Dzogchen, women in Buddhism, and Tibet’s Buddhist yogis. She has a bachelor’s degree in Sociology, a  a Master’s degree in Religious Studies specializing in Tibet, and a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Virginia. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies and she studies English, Tibetan and Chinese languages.

    Pema Khandro is an authorized Lama and lineage holder of the Nyingma and Kagyu lineages and one of few westerners recognized and enthroned as a tulku, a Buddhist leader who carries on the lineage of a predecessor. She ordained in the Nyingma tradition and was authorized to pass this non-monastic line

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