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 the three-story temple and library  dedicated to the divine feminine in the Buddhist tradition 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 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 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.

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 one to become familiarized with the visions and experiences one may experience during the 49 days following one's own passing.

Riwo Sangchö: 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.”

Wisdom Rising: 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

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.

Chöd of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche: Self-Paced Program

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 Labdrön 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.

‘Live’ Webcast - Oral Transmission (Tib. Lung) for Green Tara, CNNR Chöd, Zhitro, and Riwo Sangchö

Open Dates
A Lung is required in order to receive the teachings and practices offered in 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 Mandala Principle, MP3 (Digital Download)

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.

Wisdom Rising Essential Practices – MP3 (Digital Download)

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)

Dakini Mandala Practice – Guided Meditation, MP3 (Digital Download)

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

Relationship & Intimacy as a Path – MP3 (Digital Download)

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.

Machig Labdrön’s Four Demons & Feeding Your Demons Meditation – MP3 (Digital Download)

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.

The Life & Teachings of the Buddha – MP3 (Digital Download)

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.

Practicing at the Time of Death: Six Moments of Opportunity – MP3 (Digital Download)

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.

Intimate Dialogue with Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo and Lama Tsultrim Allione- Video (Digital Download)

Also With 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.

Intimate Dialogue Series: A Three Video Collection (Digital Download)

Also With 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.

Voices of Wisdom in Times of Crisis: Online Symposium Recorded Sessions (Digital Download)

Also With 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.

Taking Grief onto the Path, MP4 (Digital Download - Video)

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

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

Riwo Sangchö: 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.”

Wisdom Rising: Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine — Mandala Method Level I (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

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.

Chöd of Chögyal 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 Labdrön 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.

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.

Dzinpa Rangdröl Ngöndro - Transmission and Teachings (online)

Also With Lopön Beth Lee-Herbert M.A.

May 25 - 26, 2024

Due to the requests from students, the complete cycle of Dzinpa Rangdröl as the Gateway Program will be offered again at Tara Mandala starting in January of 2025! However, there has been a request by students to start the Ngöndro sooner and so Lama Tsultrim will offer this teaching in 2024. In the meantime, there […]

Nondual Awareness: An Exploration of Effortless Presence (Retreat in New York)

June 21 - 23, 2024

We all have an awakened presence within us which is created as a spark of bliss at the moment of conception. This spark remains within us and can never be stained or tainted, but it can be hidden. Drawing from more than 50 years of training and practice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, best-selling author […]

Chöd: from Chögyal Namkhai Norbu (Retreat in Colorado)

Also With Lopön Karla Jackson-Brewer, M.S.

July 3 - 8, 2024

We invite you to join us at Tara Mandala in Colorado for a profound opportunity to learn Chöd: from Chögyal Namkhai Norbu with Lama Tsultrim Allione (joining virtually) and  Lopön Karla Jackson-Brewer, M.S. (in-person). Chöd is a unique blend of the Tibetan Shamanic traditions and the Buddhist tradition of compassion and emptiness. This centuries-old practice […]

Wisdom Rising: Journey into the Mandala of the Sacred Masculine— Mandala Method Level II (online)

Also With Lopön Karla Jackson-Brewer, M.S., Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen, Chögé Lisa Erickson and Chögé Bridget Bailey

July 13 - August 31, 2024

“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 […]

Ösel Nyingtig: Means for Accomplishing the Guru and Continuing Tröma’s Secret Instructions (Retreat in Colorado)

Also With Dorje Gyaltsab Tulku Ösel Dorje

July 27 - August 1, 2024

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 […]

Tara Mandala's 30th Anniversary (In Colorado)

August 2 - 4, 2024

Join Lama Tsultrim and the Tara Mandala community as we joyously commemorate our 30-year anniversary at Tara Mandala’s retreat center in Colorado this Summer.  A special weekend celebration will take place from August 2nd to the 4th, and include: powerful rituals that honor Tara Mandala’s founders and teachers, sharing stories and meals, music and dancing, […]

Magyu Biennial Gathering - Honoring the Mandala (Retreat in Colorado)

Also With Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam and Lopön Karla Jackson-Brewer, M.S.

August 5 - 9, 2024

In this special year marking the 30th Anniversary of Tara Mandala, we celebrate the sacred and powerful land that is the home of the Magyu lineage. This is a special time to gather with fellow Magyu sangha members for practice, teachings and shared conversations. This year our theme is the Mandala teachings which highlight the […]

Non-Dual Awareness: An Exploration of Effortless Presence (Retreat in Canada)

August 9 - 14, 2024

We all have awakened presence within us which is created as a spark of bliss at the moment of conception. This spark remains within us and can never be stained or tainted, but it can be hidden. Drawing from over fifty years of training and practice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition Lama Tsultrim will guide us […]

Feeding Your Demons® Level I - Buddhist Track (Kapala I)

Also With Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen

September 7 - November 1, 2024
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 and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen

September 7 - November 1, 2024
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.

Nondual Awareness: An Exploration of Effortless Presence (Retreat in Czech Republic)

September 27 - 29, 2024

Do you need to experience again the sincere joy you haven't felt for a long time? Are you failing to experience the sacred essence of your being? Give yourself the nurturing you need and get the tools to free yourself from the cycle of suffering once and for all. We all have awakened presence within […]

Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflicts – “Feeding Your Demons” (Retreat in Germany)

October 5, 2024

We are very much looking forward to the very special opportunity to experience Lama Tsültrim Allione in person! In the Nymphenburg Orangery she presents the method she developed, explains the background from Tibetan Buddhism, guides through the exercise and is available to answer questions. “The process of feeding your own demons is a method of bringing […]

Pure Consciousness: An Exploration of Our Hidden Potential (Retreat in Germany)

October 6 - 11, 2024

We all have a well of consciousness deep within us. It's created the moment we're conceived. This spark of consciousness remains in our soul and can never be altered or compromised. Yet for most of us, it remains hidden. And it awaits our rediscovery. Drawing from over fifty years of training and practice in the […]

Wisdom of Awareness: An Exploration of Effortless Presence (Retreat in Sweden)

October 18 - 20, 2024

We all have awakened presence within us which is created as a spark of bliss at the moment of conception. This spark remains within us and can never be stained or tainted, but it can be hidden. Drawing from over fifty years of training and practice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition Lama Tsultrim will guide […]

Ösel Nyingtig: Means for Accomplishing the Guru and Continuing Tröma’s Secret Instructions (online)

Also With Dorje Gyaltsab Tulku Ösel Dorje

December 6 - 8, 2024

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 […]

Mandala Method Level III: Journey into the Union of Sacred Feminine and Masculine (online)

Also With Lopön Ellen Booth Church, Chögé Bridget Bailey and Chögé Lisa Erickson

January 31 - March 1, 2025

“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 mandala of divine union, the Yab Yum Mandala. Building upon the five family explorations and practices of the Mandala of the Dakinis and […]