
SAVE THE DATES! Nitartha Summer Institute 2016
We’re pleased to announce that the dates and new venue for the 2016 Nitartha Summer Institute have been confirmed. Mark your calendars! Friday, July 15 through Saturday, August 13, 2016 at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, BC, Canada. This year’s complete summer program will run for four weeks from Friday, July 15th […]

Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen at Nalanda West Jan 8, 9 & 10
Ring in the New Year with Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen! Acharya works closely with Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche in all aspects of leadership for the Institute, particularly in the design of our curriculum, and, after Ponlop Rinpoche, is the Institute’s most revered teacher. He will be teaching on Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness, a weekend […]

Reopened! Self-Paced Online Courses
After a period of hiatus, Nitartha Institute is happy to announce that we have reopened our Self-Paced Online Courses! (SPOCs) Our entire Foundation and Intermediate curriculums are available as SPOCs. These are full, complete, archived versions of courses that were previously taught by experienced and dedicated faculty members. You can take these classes online, at […]

Exploring the Pramāṇa Tradition
BUD 690: EXPLORING THE PRAMĀṆA TRADITION A Nitartha Institute Advanced Curriculum Course October 1, 2015 – January 14, 2016 Thursdays, 7:00pm – 8:30pm PST Nalanda West, 3902 Woodland Park Ave N, Seattle, WA 98103 The Buddhist science of pramāṇa, or ‘valid cognition,’ has been a key component of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies since the 5th century […]