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New Course with Mingyur Rinpoche!
Sep 1–Oct 31
In the Essence of Buddhist Psychology course, Mingyur Rinpoche will guide us to a deeper understanding of the Abhidharma tradition’s unique approach to uprooting the causes of suffering through resting and analytical meditation.
Registration is open to everyone!
Registration is open to everyone!
New Course with Mingyur Rinpoche!
Sep 1–Oct 31
In the Essence of Buddhist Psychology course, Mingyur Rinpoche will guide us to a deeper understanding of the Abhidharma tradition’s unique approach to uprooting the causes of suffering through resting and analytical meditation.
Registration is open to everyone!
Registration is open to everyone!
Discover Your Path
The Four Areas of Vajrayana Online
We have created a new learning structure within Vajrayana Online. It consists of four new areas, each with a specific focus within the larger Vajrayana Online program. If you're unsure where to begin or have recently completed a course, find the next recommended step here.
Exploring Buddhism
Deepening Wisdom
Nature of Mind
Path of Liberation
Exploring Buddhism
If you are new to Buddhism or coming from the Joy of Living program, these courses are for you! This path will lay a strong foundation for your understanding of the Buddha's teachings and prepare you to continue your journey in the Path of Liberation or Deepening Wisdom.
The Life and Teachings of the Buddha
Receive heart advice on retreat from Mingyur Rinpoche and other contemporary teachers as well as traditional resources on how to do a retreat.
Foundations of Tibetan Buddhism
Explore the rich history, philosophy, and unique meditative traditions of Tibetan Buddhism and its three “vehicles” or paths, practiced as a unified system.
Vajrayana Buddhism
You will learn about the essence of Vajrayana, the stages of development and completion, and important topics like empowerment, samaya, and the guru principle.
Three Yanas
In this course you will find an in-depth look at the view, meditation, and conduct of the Hinayana, Mahayana, and Vajrayana vehicles of Tibetan Buddhism.
Six Paramitas
Explore the bodhisattva path, the power of bodhichitta, and how to practice the six paramitas: generosity, ethical conduct, patience, joyful effort, meditation, and wisdom.
Exploring Reality
The Buddhist path shifts our perception of reality. You will investigate the self, learn about the nondual mind beyond concepts, and move from an understanding of these principles to direct experience.
Retreat Course
Receive heart advice on retreat from Mingyur Rinpoche and other contemporary teachers as well as traditional resources on how to do a retreat.
Deepening Wisdom
If you already have a solid understanding of Buddhism or have completed the Exploring Buddhism courses, the Deepening Wisdom area is for you! Here you'll study many classical topics and texts related to sutra and tantra.
Buddhist Psychology: Mind Explained
For the first time ever, Mingyur Rinpoche will offer teachings from his new meditation guide to the Abhidharma, Stainless Prajna.
The Way of the Bodhisattva
During this transmission, Mingyur Rinpoche unlocks the transformative potential of Shantideva's masterpiece with step-by-step instructions for modern people.
The Heart of Tantra
Explore the development and completion stages of Vajrayana Buddhism with profound methods for breaking free from deep-rooted conditioning and recognizing our true nature.
Dying Every Day
Mingyur Rinpoche guides us through the bardos, deepening the teachings of his book In Love with the World, which chronicles his very personal experience of death and rebirth.
Awakening in Daily Life
Based on Padmasambhava's treasure Natural Liberation, as well as Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche's commentary Mind Beyond Death, you will learn how to work with the three bardos of this life.
Dying and Awakening
Based on Padmasambhava's treasure, Natural Liberation, as well as Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche's commentary, Mind Beyond Death, you will learn the essential practices of the bardos of death and dying.
Nature of Mind
If you are a Mahamudra and/or Dzogchen practitioner, this area is for you! If you are a Tergar Path of Liberation student and wish to deepen your practice even further, these courses will be a perfect companion to your path.
Mahamudra: A Song of Realization
For the first time, Mingyur Rinpoche offers teachings on the root verses of Tilopa's Ganges Mahamudra to a Western audience.
Mahamudra: Exploring the Nature of Mind
This course is based on important texts from the Mahamudra lineage and video teachings from Mingyur Rinpoche on key points of nature of mind practice.
Dzogchen: An Immersion Course on Pure Awareness
The course is an immersion on a famed set of Dzogchen teachings known as The Three Words that Strike the Vital Point, perhaps the most well-known and cherished instructions on the art of recognizing pure awareness.
Path of Liberation
The Path of Liberation is Mingyur Rinpoche’s core training program in the essence of buddhadharma and the nature of mind. If you are a Tergar Path of Liberation student, this area is for you! Here you will be taken by the hand from the very first step of your Path of Liberation journey all the way to the advanced levels.
Nectar of the Path Course
Nectar of the Path is a concise and beautiful liturgy composed by Mingyur Rinpoche. Here, the key points of the Buddhist path become alive and experiential, serving as a complete daily practice.
Ngondro Course
The Ngondro course spans twelve modules and will take you deep into the underlying principles and practical instructions of the Tibetan Buddhist foundation practices, or ngondro, as they are known in Tibet.
Path of Liberation Level 1
If you have attended a Path of Liberation Level 1 retreat, we welcome you to join this course. You will be taken by the hand through all the practices of Nectar of the Path or ngöndro, depending on which track you are on.
Path of Liberation Level 2
If you have participated in an in-person Path of Liberation Level 2 retreat, we welcome you to join this level. This course will take you by the hand and be your companion on your journey.
Path of Liberation Level 3
If you have participated in a Path of Liberation Levels 3&4 retreat, we welcome you to join this level. The course will take you by the hand and be your companion on your journey.
Path of Liberation Level 4
If you have participated in a Path of Liberation Levels 3&4 retreat and have already gone through the practices required in Level 3, we welcome you to join this level.
Path of Liberation Level 5
If you have participated in a Path of Liberation Level 5 retreat, we welcome you to join this level. The course will take you by the hand and be your companion on your journey.
Exploring Buddhism
Deepening Wisdom
Nature of Mind
Path of Liberation
Exploring Buddhism
If you are new to Buddhism or coming from the Joy of Living program, these courses are for you! This path will lay a strong foundation for your understanding of the Buddha's teachings and prepare you to continue your journey in the Path of Liberation or Deepening Wisdom areas.
The Life and Teachings of the Buddha
Foundations of Tibetan Buddhism
Vajrayana Buddhism
Three Yanas
Six Paramitas
Exploring Reality
Deepening Wisdom
If you already have a solid understanding of Buddhism or have completed the Exploring Buddhism courses, the Deepening Wisdom area is for you! Here you'll study many classical topics and texts related to sutra and tantra.
Buddhist Psychology: Mind Explained
The Way of the Bodhisattva
The Heart of Tantra
Dying Every Day
Awakening in Daily Life
Nature of Mind
If you are a Mahamudra and/or Dzogchen practitioner, this area is for you! If you are a Tergar Path of Liberation student and wish to deepen your practice even further, these courses will be a perfect companion to your path.
Mahamudra: A Song of Realization
Mahamudra: Exploring the Nature of Mind
Path of Liberation
The Path of Liberation is Mingyur Rinpoche’s core training program in the essence of buddhadharma and the nature of mind. If you are a Tergar Path of Liberation student, this area is for you! Here you will be taken by the hand from the very first step of your Path of Liberation journey all the way to the advanced levels.
Nectar of the Path Course
Ngondro Course
Path of Liberation Level 1
Path of Liberation Level 2
If you have participated in an in-person Path of Liberation Level 2 retreat, we welcome you to join this level. This course will take you by the hand and be your companion on your journey.
Coming Soon
Path of Liberation Level 3
Path of Liberation Level 4
If you have participated in a Path of Liberation Levels 3&4 retreat and have already gone through the practices required in Level 3, we welcome you to join this level.
Coming Soon
Path of Liberation Level 5
If you have participated in a Path of Liberation Level 5 retreat, we welcome you to join this level. The course will take you by the hand and be your companion on your journey.
Coming Soon
Discover Your Path
The Four Areas
of Vajrayana Online
We have created a new learning structure within Vajrayana Online. It consists of four new areas, each with a specific focus within the larger Vajrayana Online program. If you're unsure where to begin or have recently completed a course, find the next recommended step here.
Exploring Buddhism
Deepening Wisdom
Nature of Mind
Path of Liberation
Exploring Buddhism
If you are new to Buddhism or coming from the Joy of Living program, these courses are for you! This path will lay a strong foundation for your understanding of the Buddha's teachings and prepare you to continue your journey in the Path of Liberation or Deepening Wisdom areas.
The Life and Teachings of the Buddha
Foundations of Tibetan Buddhism
Vajrayana Buddhism
Three Yanas
Six Paramitas
Exploring Reality
Deepening Wisdom
If you already have a solid understanding of Buddhism or have completed the Exploring Buddhism courses, the Deepening Wisdom area is for you! Here you'll study many classical topics and texts related to sutra and tantra.
Buddhist Psychology: Mind Explained
2024-25 Transmission
For the first time ever, Mingyur Rinpoche will offer teachings from his new meditation guide to the Abhidharma, Stainless Prajna.
Voices of Buddhist Psychology
Join Mingyur Rinpoche, Daniel Aitken, Joseph Goldstein, and Beth Jacobs for the first Vajrayana Online course of Tergar’s year-long Abhidharma transmission.
Essence of Buddhist Psychology
This course will help us gain a deeper understanding of the Abhidharma tradition’s unique approach to identifying the causes of suffering and how to uproot them.
The Way of the Bodhisattva
During this transmission, Mingyur Rinpoche unlocks the transformative potential of Shantideva's masterpiece with step-by-step instructions for modern people.
The Heart of Tantra
Explore the development and completion stages of Vajrayana Buddhism with profound methods for breaking free from deep-rooted conditioning and recognizing our true nature.
Dying Every Day
Mingyur Rinpoche guides us through the bardos, deepening the teachings of his book In Love with the World, which chronicles his very personal experience of death and rebirth.
Awakening in Daily Life
Based on Padmasambhava's treasure Natural Liberation, as well as Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche's commentary Mind Beyond Death, you will learn how to work with the three bardos of this life.
Dying and Awakening
Based on Padmasambhava's treasure, Natural Liberation, as well as Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche's commentary, Mind Beyond Death, you will learn the essential practices of the bardos of death and dying.