Dakinis All Around with Stephanie Johnston

Offered by Nalandabodhi Toronto Online via Zoom (recorded)
Saturdays and Saturdays
October 3, 4, 17, 18, 2026
9:00 am – 11:00 am Mountain Time

What is the dakini principle? Who are the dakinis? How do both show up in Buddhist Art? Can dakini imagery and iconography have a transformative impact on makers and viewers? If this lights up your curiosity, then join us for four October classes where we open into these questions through different modalities—illustrated presentation, experiential self-inquiry, guided explorations, and Q&A based conversation.

Bring your questions, insights, and most of all your sense of adventure for this field trip into the world of dakini wisdom. This workshop is open to anyone. It may be especially interesting as a follow-up for those who recently enjoyed Judith Simmer-Brown’s presentation on Dakini Wisdom in relation to emptiness, devastation, embodiment, and gender. If you are interested in meaning, representation, and function in Tibetan Buddhist art, or are just curious, please join us for a journey into this powerful and mysterious territory of Buddhism.

Clarify for yourself:

  • what a dakini is and is not,
  • the kinds of dakinis,
  • their specific functions and qualities,
  • well-known dakinis,
  • dakinis and the dakini principle in Buddhist meditation, and
  • personally connecting with the dakini principle
Learn more and register…