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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Upcoming Programs by Lama Tsultrim Allione

Feeding Your Demons® - Online Program

Also With Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen

Open Dates
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.

Lama Live!

Open Dates
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.

Zhitro Self Paced Program

Open Dates
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

Also With Anna Raithel

Open Dates
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

Open Dates
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

Also With Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv

Open Dates
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

Also With Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton

Open Dates
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

Open Dates
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

Open Dates
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.

Introduction to Feeding Your Demons® for Mental Health Professionals

Also With Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen

Open Dates
Discover the life-changing potential of Feeding Your Demons® (FYD) in this online course. Learn the five-step process to transform your inner demons into allies and cultivate resilience. Created by Lama Tsultrim Allione, FYD blends ancient Tibetan wisdom with modern psychology to support personal and professional growth. Join a global community dedicated to inner transformation.

Oral Transmission Event

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. 

The Path of Liberation

Also With Amelia Hall PhD and Wendy Garling

January 31 - February 28, 2025

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

January 31 - November 21, 2025

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 […]

Feeding Your Demons Level II Buddhist Track Kapala II

Also With Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen

February 22 - May 2, 2025
Deepen your training and knowledge of Feeding Your Demons® in Feeding Your Demons® Level II. Learn how to work more extensively with your allies, trace your demons in your body, and map family demons and allies. (Please note: prerequisites required)

Feeding Your Demons Level II Secular Track

Also With Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen

March 1 - May 2, 2025
Deepen your training and knowledge of Feeding Your Demons® in Online Level II. Learn how to work more extensively with your allies, trace your demons in your body, and map family demons and allies. (Please note: prerequisites required)

What the Buddha Taught

Also With Amelia Hall PhD and Lopön Karla Jackson-Brewer MS

March 21 - April 18, 2025

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 […]

Feeding Your Demons Level I Buddhist Track Kapala I

Also With Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen

March 22 - May 16, 2025
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

Also With Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen

March 22 - May 16, 2025
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.

Oral Transmission Event with Lama Tsultrim Allione

March 22, 2025
A Lung is required to receive the teachings and practices offered in our Self-Paced Green Tara, Chöd, Zhitro, Riwo Sangchö courses and for the Dzinpa Rangdröl Ngöndro. 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. 

Mandala Method Journey Into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine

Also With Chögé Lisa Erickson and Chögé Bridget Bailey

March 24 - May 16, 2025

“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 […]

The Magyu Gathering ON LAND

Also With Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv

July 16 - 21, 2025

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 ON LAND

Also With Tulku Ösel Dorje

July 16 - 21, 2025

This is the registration page for the ON LAND Gathering. To register for the ONLINE program, please register here.  Tara Mandala extends a warm invitation to all of the students in our Ösel Nyingtig Lineage program to attend this special annual retreat focused on the profound practice of Chöd. We will gather together, along with […]

The Magyu Gathering ONLINE

Also With Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv

July 16 - 21, 2025

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

July 16 - 21, 2025

This is the registration page for the ONLINE Gathering. To register for the ON LAND program, please register here.  Tara Mandala extends a warm invitation to all of the students in our Ösel Nyingtig Lineage program to attend this special annual retreat focused on the profound practice of Chöd. We will gather together, along with […]

Dzogchen: The Three Statements that Strike the Crucial Point

August 8 - 13, 2025

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 […]

Sacred View Sacred World

Also With Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv and Miranda Shaw PhD

September 5 - October 3, 2025

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

October 24 - November 21, 2025

Course 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 […]