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Buddhafest 2021

June 21 - August 15

Available 24/7 starting June 21 until Aug 15 BuddhaFest is dedicated to presenting events that promote spiritual awareness, compassion and peace in the world. Festival partner is Tricycle.com, a hub for groups and movements dedicated to exploring how universal Buddhist values can help to alleviate suffering, and benefit others in this increasingly interdependent, networked world. […]

The Afterlife Conference with Robert A.F. Thurman

June 25-3:00 pm - June 27-9:00 pm EDT

Since 2010, The Afterlife Conference has served as an educational, social and spiritual gathering place for those seeking to learn more about death and beyond. While other conferences have followed our lead over the years, we maintain the distinction of being the original Afterlife Conference. Each year we unite the disciplines in exploring the survival […]

The Extraordinary Life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama: An Evening with Rima Fujita

July 5-6:00 pm - 7:30 pm EDT

A discussion between artist Rima Fujita and Robert Thurman about Rima’s new book about one of the most revered spiritual figures of our time—His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. Rima and Bob will offer anecdotes and stories of personal time they have had with His Holiness. The book features luminous illustrations and some never-before-shared details […]

Mindfulness and the Mahayana with Sharon Salzberg & Bob Thurman

July 23 - July 25

This online retreat offers a unique opportunity to study the art of mindfulness directly from the source material itself with two of the leading Buddhist teachers in America. Together we will consider the Buddha’s original teaching to the mendicants, as recorded in the Great Focus of Mindfulness Discourse (Mahāsatipatthānasutta) in the Long Discourses collection, to […]

Foundations in Mind and Body Yogic Practice: The Free Void Womb of Compassion Vajra Yoga Intensive Studies with Michele Loew

September 10 - September 20

This intensive-studies program is taught in three 10-day 100 hr. Immersions, and includes online study materials and reading of texts that students will be expected to study and read in preparation and in between modules for the course.  For Yoga Alliance Certification, extra online study and weekly practice sessions with the yoga teachers will be […]

Mahayana: The Great Vehicle: The Creative Art of Re-envisioning Mind and Body Through a Spirit of Enlightenment Vajra Yoga Intensive Studies with Michele Loew

December 9 - December 19

This will be an intensive immersion designed for students and teachers of Indian and Tibetan yogas wishing to take their practice and teaching to a deeper level. A principal of the approach is to move the context of the yogas into the domain of the mahasiddhas—their trans-denominational Indic spiritual sciences (adhyatmavidya–nangi rigpa). Daily practice of […]

Vajra Yoga Costa Rica Retreat: Embodying the Wisdom of Bliss with Michele Loew

January 22, 2022 - January 29, 2022

Take A Deep Spiritual Journey into Paradise with inspirational & transformational yogini Michele Loew & world renowned heart & mind expanding philosophy and meditation teacher Robert A.F. Thurman. Together they will share Vajra Yoga, deep embodied yoga practices within the context of spiritual teachings inspired by the Buddha and the inner traditions of yoga that […]

Expansion into the Perfect Stages Moving Inner Energies within the Subtle Body Intensive Studies with Michele Loew

May 19, 2022 - May 29, 2022

Join us for this totally unique yoga teacher training, exploring the philosophical and experiential interface between Hatha Yoga and Indo-Tibetan Vajra Yoga traditions in the pristine hidden mountain valley of Menla—a Medicine Buddha land. To learn more and to regsiter, please visit: www.menla.org

Journey into the Bardos of Life & Beyond Online Course with Andrew Holecek

This seven-day program is the first in a series of four retreats designed to give you a complete preparation for death. Each retreat is a stand-alone program but also develops the material from the previous retreat. This means that if you are interested in doing the entire series, you can enter any program at any […]

Vimalakīrti’s Silence: Sci-Fi Feast and Buddhaverse Infrastructure Online Course

In this online class series, Robert A.F. Thurman will guide students through a close reading of “The Noble Teaching of Vimalakīrti”. Thurman will use the classic text to introduce basic Buddhist meditation, history, philosophy, and realization with relevant digressions bringing Vimalakirti’s wisdom alive today!The Vimalakīrti Sutra records happenings in Shakyamuni Buddha’ time (6th Century BCE) […]

Mahamudra Online Course with Dr. Nida Chenagtsang & Robert Thurman

In this online teaching, Dr. Nida transmits the teachings of Mahamudra according to the Yuthog Nyingthig tradition. These teachings will include instructions on the Sutra and Tantra paths of Mahamudra, including the methods of the Four Mudras and Four Yogas. In complementary sessions, Robert Thurman will turn to the teachings of HH the Fourteenth Dalai […]

Pure Lands Online Course with Andrew Holecek

The Pure Lands are an integral aspect of Indian Mahayana, Tibetan and East Asian Buddhisms rarely taught in the West. For most of us, they represent our greatest opportunity after death. This online course explores the origins and development of the Pure Land tradition in India and Tibet and the lineage of masters that support […]

Passion without Attachment: Practicing with Embodied Emptiness Online Course

Join Dr. Rick Hanson and Bob Thurman for a fascinating dialogue and experiential practicum online. Explore personal practice in the contexts of Rick’s wonderful and practical book, “Neurodharma”, making accessible seven classical meditative practices in the context of being a neurologically guided, mind-bodied human being, and of Bob’s understanding of Indo-Tibetan “Buddhist neuroscience”, drawing from […]