Tergar Institute · Fall 2026
Foundations of Buddhist Experience
Join a community of global practitioners for 3 months of joyful study and practice culminating in a deeper understanding of how to find fulfillment in your own life.
September 9 – December 9, 2026 · Kathmandu, Nepal
Ready to take the first step? Book a free call or request the program guide.
Where you will live
Three months immersed in a living monastery
When you arrive at Tergar Osel Ling, you step into a world consecrated for practice. Set on a hill outside Kathmandu, the campus is surrounded by over 300 monastic residents, sacred sites, and the quiet rhythms of daily contemplative life.
The monastery is not merely a setting. It becomes a container. The bells, the liturgy, the shared silence shapes you in ways a retreat or online course cannot replicate.
What makes it different
Six things you will experience that you won't find elsewhere
FBE (Foundations of Buddhist Experience) is not a course you take — it is an environment you inhabit, where study and practice deepen each other continuously.
Original texts by Mingyur Rinpoche
You study primary manuscripts composed by Mingyur Rinpoche himself, alongside classical Indian and Tibetan sources — the depth of a monastic shedra brought into direct relationship with your practice.
Study woven into daily practice
When you meditate each morning and then open the texts, one illuminates the other. The questions that arise in practice become the questions you bring to the teaching — and the teaching gives them somewhere to land.
Personal mentorship throughout
One-on-one and small-group guidance from senior faculty runs through all three months. Your own questions become the thread — developed into a Social Impact Project that extends the teachings into your actual life and work.
Three vehicles, one coherent path
You study Abhidharma, Lojong, Madhyamaka, and Vajrayana not as separate subjects but as a single coherent arc — each one deepening your understanding of the next. The tradition holds together, and so does your practice within it.
Life in a living monastery
Three hundred monastics share the campus with you. Bells before dawn. A rhythm of practice continued for generations. Being here shapes your understanding in ways study alone cannot reach.
A gateway or a complete journey
You may come for three months and leave complete. Or you may find it opens something you want to follow — through the full 27-month Certificate, spanning the full arc of the tradition. No pressure to decide before you arrive
Six domains of study & practice
The curriculum that awaits you
Six interdependent areas of Buddhist wisdom — from the ground of awareness and valid cognition, through the transformative methods of Vajrayana.
Buddhanature
Pramana
Abhidharma
Lojong
Madhyamaka
Vajrayana
Who this is for
You will thrive here if…
What you share with your cohort is not a level of attainment — it is a readiness to go deeper into the practice you already love.
Students of Mingyur Rinpoche
When the online teachings and retreats have opened something in you, and a more structured, immersive path feels like the natural next step, FBE is where that deepening happens.
Tibetan Buddhism practitioners
You will arrive with some familiarity, and leave with a comprehensive foundation in the three yanas — grounded in the rigor of a genuine monastic education.
Experienced meditators
When you have a serious personal practice and want to understand it more fully within a traditional framework and community, this is the environment you have been looking for.
Contemplatives in everyday life
You are not a renunciant, but you sense there is something more to discover. FBE offers a profound yet down-to-earth entry into a living tradition — one that will return with you when you go home.
“The Institute provides a transformational process of discovering our inner well-being.”Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche — Guiding Teacher
Interested in learning more?
We'd love to speak with you
Every practitioner arrives with a different question. A 15-minute call with a program advisor is the most direct way to find out whether FBE is the right next step for you — with no commitment required.
Book a Free 15-Minute CallOr browse the full program guide at your own pace.
Take the first step
Begin your path with Foundations of Buddhist Experience
Applications are open for Fall 2026. When you are ready, start with the program guide, or apply directly. Either way, you are beginning something real.
September 9 – December 9, 2026 · Tergar Osel Ling, Kathmandu
Ready to take the next step?
Start with the program guide for the full picture, apply when you feel ready, or book a free call to talk it through with an advisor.
Every journey begins with a single, unhurried step.