Not just a muse, a real master

About this Program

Create Female Practitioner Training Programs
We aim to empower women through tailored spiritual training and financial support to cultivate the next generation of enlightened female leaders.  We believe in a future of both male and female realized beings and Gurus.  While Tibetan culture has a long history of intensive training, the search for such potential has historically focused on male candidates.  Dzokden aims to support exceptional female practitioners (monastic and lay) who have devoted their life to the Guru, lineage and realization for the benefit of all beings.  Our support will cultivate highly-realized female role models who can serve as pillars of wisdom for our world.

We will provide support through a variety of initiatives such as:

1. Establish Scholarships for advanced dedicated female practitioners 
2. Education on the feminine aspect in the Dharma
3. Creation of sacred art representations of female practitioners
4. Enabling a specific retreat or training
5. Supporting lineage preservation activities
6. Funding stipends and scholarships for full-time Dharma service to the Guru and community
7. Mentoring and specialized curriculum for advanced female practitioners 

Our Aspirations and Why This is Important

To manifest a Golden Age of peace and harmony, we must first address the fundamental imbalance that destabilizes our modern world. Khentrul Rinpoche has observed that the crises we face across many dimensions—environmental, political, educational, and societal—stem from a deep-seated lack of balance between the masculine and feminine aspects. The potential for ultimate happiness and peace is shown through the perfect union and balance of these energies. By empowering the feminine, we are not merely seeking social equity, but restoring the essential harmony required for global transformation.

Project to Depict Female Masters in Art

Very few women appear in traditional lineage trees—not because they were absent, but because their presence was often hidden. Many highly realized women practiced as secret consorts, family members, and close disciples of great masters, and were fully accomplished practitioners in their own right. Yet within patriarchal societies, their names, stories, and even their images were rarely recorded, preserved, or depicted.

Shar Khentrul Jamphel Lodrö Rinpoche has been very clear that this must change. He has specifically directed us to include the secret consorts of Tāranātha and other female lineage holders in our paintings, restoring women to their rightful place in the living lineage. He has also bestowed the Vishvāmātā empowerment—the rare female solitary form of Kalachakra—an extraordinary transmission that powerfully affirms the need for both our masculine and feminine natures on the complete path of awakening. These efforts are part of rebalancing the emphasis in a world where many women do not see themselves reflected in the Dharma story. Rinpoche firmly believes the limitations have never been women’s capacity for realization, but the limitations of the societies they lived within.

Below are depictions of both past female masters and the future female Kalkis and Kalachakra lineage holders—images that were remarkably difficult to commission, because even after extensive searching, we found almost no existing artistic examples to draw from. Creating them is not just an artistic project—it is a statement: women belong in the lineage, women belong in the future, and women belong in the seat of mastery.