Programs

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Retreat Cabins

Open Dates
Tara Mandala Retreat Center

The beauty of nature, quietness, and solitude supported me so much in letting the vajra mind shine through. Having time for my practice with no outer worldly pressure helped me to deeply relax into my meditation, creating space. I’m deeply grateful for this precious time on Tara’s Land!     -Vera M. Retreat, or returning back […]

Prajna Retreat

Personal Retreat in Prajna Residence Hall

Open Dates
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
Due to COVID-19 we are not currently holding retreats in Prajña Residence Hall. Please see our retreat cabins for solitary retreat opportunities.

Feeding Your Demons® - Online Program

With Lama Tsultrim Allione, Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen

Open Dates
Online
Feeding Your Demons® (FYD) is a profoundly effective method for recognizing and transforming the deep-seated patterns, triggers, and neuroses that undermine the quality and enjoyment of our lives. Learn more about the whole program here.

Zhitro: Self-Paced Program

With Lama Tsultrim Allione

Open Dates
Online
The simple and accessible practice of Zhitro offers a real way for a practitioner to help the deceased. This practice also helps individuals become familiar with the visions and experiences that may occur during the 49 days following one's own passing.

Riwo Sangchö: Self-Paced Program

With Lama Tsultrim Allione and Anna Raithel

Open Dates
Online
A practice to heal the suffering of samsara, through the practice of boundless compassion and abundant offering. Learn the widespread and traditional practice of Riwo Sangchö – “a mountainside smoke offering.”

Wisdom Rising: Self-Paced Program

With Lama Tsultrim Allione

Open Dates
Online
Be guided through the development of the feminine in Buddhism, and understand how each of the five Dakini’s key ‘encumbered’ emotions and wisdom qualities are within each of us. By being introduced to the mandala principle and its importance to western and eastern psychology, you will understand the fierce feminine qualities found within the five Dakini buddha families.

Chöd of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche: Self-Paced Program

With Lama Tsultrim Allione

Open Dates
Online
Cut through fear, fixation and clinging, by nurturing not fighting, what disturbs our mind. This Chod practice is empowered through the lineage of the Tibetan Dzogchen master, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu.

Machig Labdrön and the Nature of Mind: Self-Paced Program

With Lama Tsultrim Allione

Open Dates
Online
Engage with the powerful teachings of the great Tibetan yogini, Machig Labdrön, on the ‘nature of mind’ as taught by her direct emanation, Lama Tsultrim Allione. Connect to Machig’s pith instructions, the essence of her teaching.

Opening the Heart Sutra: Self-Paced Program

With Lama Tsultrim Allione

Open Dates
Online
Engage with the concise teaching of Prajnaparamita, in this profound conversation between Shariputra and Avalokiteshvara. Through guiding participants line-by-line through the Heart Sutra, you will receive a functional overview of Mahayana philosophy and gain deeper insight into the world of this treasured text.

Audio Digital Download of Wisdom Rising Enhanced Practices

With Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton

Open Dates
Wisdom Rising Enhanced Practices – MP3 This includes 10 guided meditations, as taught in the Wisdom Rising book, and led by Lopön Chandra Easton: Integration with the Elements (5 meditations – one for each family) Unblocking the Encumbered Energy (5 meditations – one for each family) Total Audio Length = 70 min

Lama Live!

With Lama Tsultrim Allione

Open Dates
Online - Facebook and YouTube
Lama Live! is a livestream event where we can gather together as a community for meditation, prayer, and teachings from Lama Tsultrim Allione and other guest teachers on Sundays at 9am PT.

Video Digital Download of the Dakini Mandala Yoga Practice

With Shiva Rea

Open Dates
Video (MP4) This video was filmed live at Tara Mandala and is intended as a practice support.

Audio Digital Download of The Mandala Principle

With Lama Tsultrim Allione

Open Dates
Audio (MP3) Lama Tsultrim Allione’s teachings on the Mandala Principle. The mandala is a template or blueprint of wholeness. It has a center and four directions. Associated with each direction is a color, an element, an obstructed pattern and a wisdom. It is a way to understand yourself and also your world.

Audio Digital Download of Wisdom Rising Essential Practices

With Lama Tsultrim Allione

Open Dates
Audio (MP3) This includes 7 guided meditations, as taught in the Wisdom Rising book and led by Lama Tsultrim Allione, including: Mandala of the Five Wisdom Dakinis Practice Journey with the Dakini Practice Family Regression Practices (five practices – one for each family)

Audio Digital Download of Guided Meditation of Dakini Mandala Practice

With Lama Tsultrim Allione

Open Dates
Audio (MP3) This is a guided meditation of the Dakini Mandala practice led by Lama Tsultrim Allione.

Audio Digital Download of Relationship and Intimacy as a Path

With Lama Tsultrim Allione

Open Dates
Audio (MP3) Lama Tsultrim Allione teaches on intimate relationship as a powerful transformative tool for awakening and how relationships can, in themselves, be the path.

Audio Digital Download of Four Demons and Feeding Your Demons Meditation from Machig Labdron

With Lama Tsultrim Allione

Open Dates
Audio (MP3) Lama Tsultrim Allione teaches on the Four Types of Demons as taught by the 11th Century yogini Machig Labdrön who founded the Chöd lineage in Tibet.

Audio Digital Download of The Life and Teachings of the Buddha

With Lama Tsultrim Allione

Open Dates
Audio (MP3) A perfect teaching for beginning and advanced students alike that includes a guided meditation practice. In this recording, Lama Tsultrim teaches on the important historical development of Buddhism and the three core principles of Buddhist training: discipline, meditative concentration, and wisdom.

Audio Digital Download of Six Moments of Opportunity for Practicing at the Time of Death

With Lama Tsultrim Allione

Open Dates
Audio (MP3) Lama Tsultrim Allione’s teachings on the Bardo, the intermediate stage between death and rebirth. The Bardo is an ideal time to practice and recognize our true nature.

Video Digital Download of Intimate Dialogue with Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo and Lama Tsultrim Allione

With Lama Tsultrim Allione and Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

Open Dates
This conversation is a fascinating account of two women’s struggle to create a stronger position for women in the dharma and bring women’s voices more strongly into Tibetan Buddhism.

Audio Digital Download of a Three Video Collection from the Intimate Dialogue Series

With Lama Tsultrim Allione, Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel and Krishna Das

Open Dates
This three-video compilation includes intimate conversations about living a spiritual life. The conversations were recorded in a setting with an audience that posed a variety of in-depth and important spiritual questions.

Audio Digital Download of Voices of Wisdom in Times of Crisis Online Symposium

With Lama Tsultrim Allione and Shiva Rea

Open Dates
This recording package includes 13 sessions recorded during the Voices of Wisdom in Times of Crisis Online Symposium, co-hosted by Lama Tsultrim Allione and Shiva Rea.

Audio Digital Download of Messages from the Divine Wrathful Mother

With Sangye Khandro

Open Dates
Audio (MP3) + Transcript (PDF) This talk by Sangye Khandro, from the ‘Voices of Wisdom in Times of Crisis’ symposium, describes the group of beings known as Mamos, and the specific messages they have for us in this time of great change.

Video Digital Download of Taking Grief onto the Path

With Lama Tsultrim Allione

Open Dates
Video Lama Tsultrim Allione teaches on intimate relationship as a powerful transformative tool for awakening and how relationships can, in themselves, be the path.

Zhitro Self Paced Program

With Lama Tsultrim Allione

Open Dates
Online
The simple and accessible practice of Zhitro offers a real way for a practitioner to help the deceased. This practice also helps individuals become familiar with the visions and experiences that may occur during the 49 days following one's own passing.

Riwo Sangcho Self Paced Program

With Lama Tsultrim Allione and Anna Raithel

Open Dates
Online
A practice to heal the suffering of samsara, through the practice of boundless compassion and abundant offering. Learn the widespread and traditional practice of Riwo Sangchö – “a mountainside smoke offering.”

Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine Self Paced Program

With Lama Tsultrim Allione

Open Dates
Online
Be guided through the development of the feminine in Buddhism, and understand how each of the five Dakini’s key ‘encumbered’ emotions and wisdom qualities are within each of us. By being introduced to the mandala principle and its importance to western and eastern psychology, you will understand the fierce feminine qualities found within the five Dakini buddha families.

Green Tara Self Paced Program

With Lama Tsultrim Allione and Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam

Open Dates
Online
A great introductory course for understanding ‘deity’ practice in Buddhism. Green Tara sits with one foot in the meditative posture and one foot in the world, thus embodying active compassion and serving as a model for modern day contemplative life.

Chod of Chogyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche Self Paced Program

With Lama Tsultrim Allione and Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton

Open Dates
Online
Cut through fear, fixation and clinging, by nurturing not fighting, what disturbs our mind. This Chod practice is empowered through the lineage of the Tibetan Dzogchen master, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu.

Machig Labdron and the Nature of Mind Self Paced Program

With Lama Tsultrim Allione

Open Dates
Online
Engage with the powerful teachings of the great Tibetan yogini, Machig Labdrön, on the ‘nature of mind’ as taught by her direct emanation, Lama Tsultrim Allione. Connect to Machig’s pith instructions, the essence of her teaching.

Opening the Heart Sutra Self Paced Program

With Lama Tsultrim Allione

Open Dates
Online
Engage with the concise teaching of Prajnaparamita, in this profound conversation between Shariputra and Avalokiteshvara. Through guiding participants line-by-line through the Heart Sutra, you will receive a functional overview of Mahayana philosophy and gain deeper insight into the world of this treasured text.

Recordings of Part I Tsigdon Dzod Dzogchen Wisdom Teachings

With Adzom Gyalse Rinpoche

Open Dates
Online - Zoom

For those who were unable to attend Part 1 of the Tsigdön Dzöd, “Precious Treasury of Genuine Meaning,” one of the “Seven Treasures” of Longchenpa with Adzom Gyalse Rinpoche, we are honored to share this precious opportunity for you to receive the teachings via recording and join us as we progress along this multi-part teaching […]

Oral Transmission Event

With Lama Tsultrim Allione

Open Dates
A Lung is an oral transmission of a practice, and will be offered for our Self-Paced Green Tara, Chöd, Zhitro, Riwo Sangchö courses. Anyone is welcome to receive a Lung as a blessing and connection to a certain practice. If you have already received the Lung, you are welcome to receive it again as a blessing. 

Embodying the Innate Wisdom and Compassion of the 21 Taras

With Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton

April 25 - December 12, 2024
Online - Zoom

Explore the symbolic meaning, power, and purpose of the 21 Taras through teachings, embodied meditation, mantra, and journeys with Tara.  In this immersive and transformative program, Dorje Lopön Chandra will offer us a lens through which we can understand and integrate the contemporary context of the Taras through inspiring stories about historic and modern Buddhist […]

Writing Your Spiritual Care Directive - A Buddhist Plan for the Time of Dying (online)

With Rhonda LoPresti

September 16 - November 8, 2024
Online - Zoom

This 8-week online course and interactive group study will be presented from a Tibetan Buddhist perspective, inviting a unique conversation and exploration in planning and training as a practitioner for the time of dying. Using a 10-part comprehensive template, called a Spiritual Care Directive, we will start with creating a Dharma Vision and journey all […]

Longing to Awaken: Buddhist Devotion in Tibetan Poetry and Song - Christina Monson Memorial Lecture Series

With Holly Gayley and Dominique Townsend

September 28, 2024
Online - Zoom

རང་སེམས་སངས་རྒྱས་མ་མཐོང་བར། ། བླ་མ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཟེར་ན་ཡང༌། ། བཅོས་མ་གཞན་གྱི་ལད་མོ་ཙམ། ། དད་པ་དེས་ཀྱང་རྐྱེན་མི་ཐུབ། །  Without seeing one’s own mind as Buddha, even if you say “my guru is a buddha,” such devotion will not withstand difficulties. It’s just a contrived imitation of others. —Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorjé   What is devotion in a Buddhist context? Devotion is more than the first […]

The Genius of Spontaneity

With Vanessa Kubota

October 26, 2024
Online - Zoom

Tara Mandala is honored to welcome Vanessa Kubota for a special talk on the Genius of Spontaneity, a talk in our Christina Monson Memorial Lecture Series. This talk will be offered via the Zoom platform. It will take place on October 26, 2024 from 10:00am-12:00pm MDT. This event will be recorded and all registered participants […]

Tsigdon Dzod Dzogchen Wisdom Teachings Part II

With Adzom Gyalse Rinpoche

November 1 - December 4, 2024
Online - Zoom

Tara Mandala is deeply honored to continue the online teaching series on the Tsigdön Dzöd, “Precious Treasury of Genuine Meaning,” one of the “Seven Treasures” of Longchenpa with the Venerable Adzom Gyalse Rinpoche.    Tsigdön Dzöd is considered one of the clearest, most explicit, and complete explanations of the instructions on Dzogchen, particularly Tögal.   This unique […]

The Great Wisdom Mother Prajnaparamita Transmission and Nature of Mind Teaching

With Lopön Debra Quayle, MA, LMFT

November 9 - 10, 2024
Online - Zoom

Prajñāpāramitā, the “perfection of wisdom,” is one of the key philosophies and practices of the Mahāyāna teachings of Buddhism. Prajñāpāramitā is also revered as the female embodiment of wisdom (Skt. prajñā) known as the Great Mother or Yum Chenmo in Tibetan. She is luminous clarity ceaselessly radiating as compassion to all beings. Ultimately, she is […]

Dakini Ngondro from the Osel Nyingtig Cycle

With Dorje Gyaltsab Tulku Ösel Dorje

November 14 - 17, 2024
Online Zoom

Tara Mandala invites you to learn the profound Dakini Ngöndro from A.dzom Rinpoche’s Ösel Nyingtig terma cycle. This cycle for accomplishing the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal was first revealed in Tibet at Yeshe Tsogyal’s birthplace. At that time, Yeshe Tsogyal appeared to A.dzom Rinpoche. Through the interdependence of Lama Tsultrim’s request, this extraordinary preliminary practice was […]

Seasonal Teacher Seminar Autumn Session

With Lopön Polly Ryan, MA, MFT

November 15, 2024
Online - Zoom

By Invitation Only These half-day seminars are designed to facilitate communication and connection between Lama Tsultrim and her lineage holders and teachers as well as to provide on-going training, inspiration and support for Lopöns, Chögés and Apprentice Teachers.  This seminar will be offered via the Zoom platform. It will take place on Friday, November 15, […]

CNNR Chod Daylong Practice Intensive

With Lopön Karla Jackson-Brewer, M.S.

November 30, 2024
Online - Zoom

Have you been practicing Chogyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche (CNNR) Chöd and are encountering some challenges?  Devoted Chöd practitioner Lopön Karla Jackson-Brewer will offer a special opportunity for seasoned and brand new Chöd practitioners to receive support in their practice, ask questions, and receive advice with helpful tips and reinforcement. In the words of a prior […]

Means for Accomplishing the Guru and Continuing Troma Secret Instructions from the Osel Nyingtig Cycle

With Lama Tsultrim Allione and Dorje Gyaltsab Tulku Ösel Dorje

December 6 - 8, 2024
Online - Zoom

We are pleased to offer to the Ösel Nyingtig students for the first time this profound teaching from the Osel Nyingtig terma Cycle for accomplishing the Guru known as the Secret Thigle. This practice was revealed in Tibet in 2007 by A.dzom Paylo Rinpoche when he met Guru Rinpoche in person in a pure vision […]

Green Tara Daylong Practice Intensive

With Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam

December 14, 2024
Online - Zoom

Green Tara sits with one foot in the meditative posture and one foot extended; thus, she embodies active compassion and serves as our model for modern day contemplative life.  We invite you to join us for our annual accelerated practice to connect more deeply with the luminous compassion of Green Tara, the Tara Mandala sangha, […]

TEST program (for troubleshooting and systems testing)

December 24 - 28, 2024
Online - Zoom

Hello! This is a test page. Adjust, break, and bend the laws of time and space as necessary. Get some coffee, you may be here for a while!   CURRENT TEST ACTIVE-  Extra display fields for scholarship pathway on sidebar 4.15.24 (v. 3)

Journey into the Union of Sacred Feminine and Masculine

With Lama Tsultrim Allione, Lopön Ellen Booth Church, Chögé Bridget Bailey and Chögé Lisa Erickson

January 31 - March 1, 2025
Online - Zoom
Register now to take advantage of Early Bird Rates until January 2, 2025. Discounts applied at registration.

“In Tibetan Buddhist tradition, the pinnacle spiritual experience is described as the union of the feminine, symbolizing wisdom, with the masculine, symbolizing skillful means.” ~ Lama Tsultrim Allione   Venture into  the Yab Yum Mandala to explore divine union beyond gender identifications, experiencing and integrating the feminine and masculine we each hold within ourselves. The […]

Feeding Your Demons Level I Buddhist Track Kapala I

With Lama Tsultrim Allione, Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen

March 22 - May 16, 2025
Online
In Feeding Your Demons® Level I, you will learn this potent, life-changing method, creating meaningful transformation in a world that is ripe for profound healing.

Feeding Your Demons Level I Secular Track

With Lama Tsultrim Allione, Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen

March 22 - May 16, 2025
Online
In Feeding Your Demons® Level I, you will learn this potent, life-changing method, creating meaningful transformation in a world that is ripe for profound healing.