Where Ancient wisdom
meets modern life.
Live, faculty-led courses and gatherings in Berkeley where contemplative practice meets modern life work, mind, embodiment, ecology, and meaning
WHY DHARMA COLLEGE
When the world feels unstable, how you experience your life matters.
We are living in a time of speed, pressure, and fragmentation. Many people can think clearly about what is happening and still feel internally unsettled.
Dharma College exists to bridge that gap.
We are not a content library. We are not inspiration without structure.
We are a living learning community where contemplative practice becomes practical applied to daily life, professional responsibility, relationships, and the ethical challenges of our time.
Wisdom here is not abstract. It is trained. Practiced. Lived
Wangmo Dixey, Director of Dharma College, with a portrait of her father,
Venerable Tarthang Tulku, Rinpoche.
Three Ways To Learn With Us
Live, renowned faculty-led courses integrating contemplative practice with daily life.
Online & In-person
Practical exercises
Real-time engagement
Public conversations, retreats, and gatherings that bring contemplative wisdom into culture and community.
Open to the public
Small group meetings
Dialogue-based
An ongoing circle of practice and reflection beyond a single class.
Worldwide Community
Peer Practice Groups
Shared inquiry
Spiritual & Transformation Online Courses
Featured
Starts March 17th
Moving Meditation: Awareness in Motion
Instructor – Simon Cook
An Introduction to Integrating Body, Mind, and Senses Moving Meditation invites you to experience awareness through the body where movement becomes a way of listening, and presence unfolds in motion. When movement is met with awareness, the body becomes a place of rest rather than effort.
Starts April 30th
Living Time Differently: An Intro. to Tarthang Tulku’s "Time, Space & Knowledge Vision"
Instructor – Eric Lichtman
What if the pressure you feel is not your life but the way you experience it? Rooted in Tarthang Tulku’s Time, Space, and Knowledge teachings, this course introduces a practical path for opening time, space, and knowing within the flow of daily life.
Starts May 4th
Connected:
The Deep Ecology of Being Human
Instructor – Dr. Bob Dozor
What if your life is not a problem to solve, but an ecology to inhabit? Connected The Ecology of Being Human invites you into a lived exploration of interdependence: how body, mind, senses, relationship, and environment continuously shape one another and how recognizing this changes the way you move through the world.
Starts May 12th
Moving Meditation: Awareness in Motion
Instructor – Simon Cook
An Introduction to Integrating Body, Mind, and Senses Moving Meditation invites you to experience awareness through the body where movement becomes a way of listening, and presence unfolds in motion. When movement is met with awareness…….
Starts May 15th
Science, Experience, and Interdependence
Instructor – Carl Pilcher
Modern science and Buddhist philosophy converge on a provocative claim: our ordinary perception of reality is fundamentally shaped by illusion. Through inquiry and contemplative practice, we examine how these distortions arise and how recognizing…
Starts June 13th
Working with Joy: Transforming Work into a Spiritual Path
Instructor – Wangmo Dixey
What if the pressure you feel is not your life but the way you experience it? Rooted in Tarthang Tulku’s Time, Space, and Knowledge teachings, this course introduces a practical path for opening time, space, and knowing within the flow of daily life.
ROOTED IN LINEAGE,
ENGAGED WITH THE PRESENT
Rooted in wisdom.
Alive in the lives of students.
Dharma College draws from the teachings of Tarthang Tulku, while focusing on how these insights come alive in the lives of students.
Through courses and conversations, people explore how contemplative practice can shape work, relationships, community, and daily life.
Over time, something larger begins to unfold: a living dialogue about how Dharma can take root within contemporary Western culture
14 Years
of experience
TESTIMONIALS
What Changes For Students
“Warm, caring environment. Easily-digestible, small nuggets of “homework” (a.k.a. daily concepts to meditate or reflect on). A gentle way of nudging oneself towards awareness. This was a wonderful course to experience and to help see the forest through the trees of both your work and personal life.”
— Darlyne Dolap
“A wonderful course with wonderful classmates. A profoundly refreshing approach to work, better and far deeper than the usual professional growth workshops.”
— Victoria Riskin
“Our class helped me focus on the suffering of not letting go and how we can experience the difference of letting go. Thank you, Wangmo and classmates for sharing. I will continue to explore how letting go can bring positive changes in life.”