Lama Tsultrim Allione
Lama Tsultrim Allione is the bestselling author of Women of Wisdom (1984), Feeding Your Demons (2008), and Wisdom Rising Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine (2018). Lama Tsultrim is the founder of Tara Mandala, a 700-acre retreat center with a three-story temple and library dedicated to the divine feminine in the Buddhist tradition, located near Pagosa Springs in southwest Colorado. She leads a vibrant international community with over forty groups around the world. Born in New England, she traveled to Asia in her late teens, and in 1970, at the age of 22 in Bodhgaya, India, she became the first American to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun. She later disrobed, married and became the mother of three and now is a grandmother of six. In 2007, she was recognized in Tibet and Nepal as the reincarnation of a renowned 11th-century Tibetan yogini, Machig Labdrön, and she is one of the few women Lamas in the world today. In 2012, she received the Machig Labdron Empowerment from His Holiness the 17th Karmapa. She was awarded international recognition as an “Outstanding Woman in Buddhism” in 2009 by a panel of distinguished scholars and practitioners in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Categories: Bhutan Teachers, Lama Tsultrim
Upcoming Programs by Lama Tsultrim Allione
Feeding Your Demons® - Online Program
Also With Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen
Lama Live!
Zhitro Self Paced Program
Riwo Sangcho Self Paced Program
Also With Anna Raithel
Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine Self Paced Program
Green Tara Self Paced Program
Also With Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv
Chod of Chogyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche Self Paced Program
Also With Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton
Machig Labdron and the Nature of Mind Self Paced Program
Opening the Heart Sutra Self Paced Program
Introduction to Feeding Your Demons® for Mental Health Professionals
Also With Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen
Oral Transmission Event
Dzinpa Rangdrol Ngondro
Also With Lopön Beth Lee-Herbert and Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton
The recordings of this program are available to audit. Lama Tsultrim Allione will offer the live lung (Tib. "oral transmission") for this practice on March 22, 2025. Please register for the free event here. The application deadline to join the next cohort of supported Ngöndro with the Gateway Program has been extended to March 31, […]
The Path of Liberation
Also With Amelia Hall PhD and Wendy Garling
Course One of the five-course series, The Heart of Buddhism: A Year Long Buddhist Studies Program with Lama Tsultrim Allione and guest teachers. The Buddhist Path The Buddhist path offers profound guidance for working with the individual and collective challenges we face — and transforming suffering into liberation. These teachings show us how we can each […]
The Heart of Buddhism A Year Long Buddhist Studies Program
Also With Amelia Hall PhD, Lopön Karla Jackson-Brewer MS, Robert Thurman PhD, Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv, Miranda Shaw PhD, Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton, Tulku Ösel Dorje, Wendy Garling and Erik Pema Kunsang
Welcome to The Heart of Buddhism: A Year Long Buddhist Studies Program. Throughout 2025, we'll explore the history, core teachings, and practices that guide Buddhist practitioners in the Tibetan tradition in waking up to their true nature of innate compassion and wisdom. The Buddhist path offers profound guidance for working with the individual and collective […]
What the Buddha Taught
Also With Amelia Hall PhD
Course Two of the five-course series, The Heart of Buddhism: A Year Long Buddhist Studies Program with Lama Tsultrim Allione and guest teachers. The Buddhist Path The Buddhist path offers profound guidance for working with the individual and collective challenges we face — and transforming suffering into liberation. These teachings show us how we can each […]
Journey Into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine
Also With Chögé Lisa Erickson and Chögé Bridget Bailey
“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.” – Lama Tsultrim Allione We invite you to join us for a 8-week […]
White Dakini Drubcho
Also With Tulku Ösel Dorje
What is a Drubchö? Drubchö means Accomplishment Ritual. It is an intensive practice retreat focused around the activation of a central mandala that contains objects and substances that are empowered during the ritual. It is similar to the Drubchen that we have offered the last ten years, but without the night sessions. Historically, many cultures […]
The Magyu Gathering COLORADO
Also With Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv
This is the registration page for the ON LAND Gathering. To register for the ONLINE program, please register here. In the words of Machig Labdrön: When one realizes that all comes from mind, there is not the slightest object left to be cut through. When one realizes the emptiness of mind itself, there is no […]
The Osel Nyingtig Gathering COLORADO
Also With Tulku Ösel Dorje
This is the registration page for the ON LAND Gathering. To register for the ONLINE program, please register here. Tara Mandala warmly invites all students in the Ösel Nyingtig Lineage who have received the Tröma Nagmo Empowerment to join this special annual retreat. This year’s gathering will be dedicated to Tröma Nagmo’s profound practices, offering […]
The Magyu Gathering ONLINE
Also With Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv
This is the registration page for the ONLINE Gathering. To register for the ON LAND program, please register here. In the words of Machig Labdrön: When one realizes that all comes from mind, there is not the slightest object left to be cut through. When one realizes the emptiness of mind itself, there is no […]
The Osel Nyingtig Gathering ONLINE
Also With Tulku Ösel Dorje
This is the registration page for the ONLINE Gathering. To register for the ON LAND program, please register here. Tara Mandala warmly invites all students in the Ösel Nyingtig Lineage who have received the Tröma Nagmo Empowerment to join this special annual retreat. This year’s gathering will be dedicated to Tröma Nagmo’s profound practices, offering […]
Dzogchen: The Three Statements that Strike the Crucial Point
The Three Statements were the final teaching of Garab Dorje, after he passed away and when he appeared in the rainbow body to his close disciple Manjusrimitra. We all have an awakened presence within us that can never be stained or tainted, but it can be hidden, like clouds covering the sun. Therefore, it needs […]
Kapala IV
In Kapala Training Level IV, you will receive Machig’s Ultimate Meaning from Lama Tsultrim, as well as the Crystal and the Rainbow Rays Movement Practice and "Five Elements" Practice. In Kapala Training Level IV you will receive: “Machig’s Direct Transmission” from Lama Tsultrim “The Crystal and Its Rays” movement practice “5 Elements” practice Who Can […]
Sacred View Sacred World
Also With Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv and Miranda Shaw PhD
Course Four of the five-course series, The Heart of Buddhism: A Year Long Buddhist Studies Program with Lama Tsultrim Allione and guest teachers. The Buddhist Path The Buddhist path offers profound guidance for working with the individual and collective challenges we face — and transforming suffering into liberation. These teachings show us how we can each […]
The Great Perfection
Also With Tulku Ösel Dorje and Erik Pema Kunsang
FrCourse Five of the five-course series, The Heart of Buddhism: A Year Long Buddhist Studies Program with Lama Tsultrim Allione and guest teachers. The Buddhist Path The Buddhist path offers profound guidance for working with the individual and collective challenges we face — and transforming suffering into liberation. These teachings show us how we can each […]
Simhamukha The Lion Headed Dakini
Also With Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv, Lopön Ellen Booth Church and Miranda Shaw PhD
Join us for two retreat weekends as we take an immersive journey through the transmission, teachings, and practice of Simhamukha: The Lion-Headed Dakini This online program offers transmission and teachings on the Simhamukha practice and Lama Tsultrim’s personal transformation work within the mandala. Simhamukha is known as a powerful remover of obstacles and as Queen […]