Tergar Institute

Led by Mingyur Rinpoche and inspired by the scholar-yogi tradition of the Kagyu lineage, the Tergar Institute offers immersive learning experiences that integrate study, meditation, and lived application into a single, coherent path. Rooted in the ancient Nalanda tradition and the Tibetan experiential instructions (myong khrid), the Institute emphasizes listening, contemplation, and meditation as mutually reinforcing ways of knowing. Students engage deeply with treasured Buddhist texts and practices while situating direct experience at the heart of the learning process. Teachings are offered incrementally and supported by meditation and practical application, cultivating awareness, compassion, and wisdom that are immediately relevant to everyday life. 

The Institute’s programs are rigorous, immersive, and relational, emphasizing small, connected cohorts and direct engagement with lineage masters, senior khenpos, and leading voices in the wider Buddhist world. Each Fall, the Institute enrolls a new cohort of students in its flagship Foundations of Buddhist Experience course at Tergar Osel Ling, where participants live and practice together in community. Students come from diverse cultural, professional, and life backgrounds, united by a shared commitment to sustained practice and inner transformation. In a world facing unprecedented social and existential challenges, the Institute seeks to develop resilient, integrated scholar-practitioners who embody the path of study and practice and carry its fruits into the world. This heart-opening process reconnects students with the living power of an unbroken lineage—supporting not only personal awakening, but the capacity to benefit others in meaningful and enduring ways.