Tara Mandala offers retreats, teachings, and training in traditional Buddhist practices and modern transformational methods based on Buddhist principles. These are offered in a variety of formats including in-person retreats in our retreat center in Colorado and at other locations, online programs, opportunities for personal solitary retreat, extended residential experiences such as our Living Dharma Apprentice Program, as well as self-paced courses and downloadable material for personal study. In addition, Tara Mandala offers long-term practice paths such as: the Feeding Your Demons® Training, the Magyu: The Mother Lineage, the Ösel Nyingtig: Heart Essence of Luminosity, and the Gateway Program. Lama Tsultrim’s events can also be viewed here. If you don’t know where to begin, visit this page.
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In this immersive and transformative program, Lopön Chandra offers a lens through which we can understand and integrate the contemporary context of the 21 Taras through inspiring stories, study, and practice. Students may join this program at any point in the series! The transmission will be given on the last session (Dec. 12)
Seasonal Teacher Seminars (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 both Senior and Apprentice Teachers.
The traditional roles of Chöpon and Umdzé are an integral part of every lineage of practice. In this retreat, students will have an opportunity to receive training with devoted Buddhist practitioner and Tara Mandala’s Head Chöpon, Anna Raithel, on this rich and intricate field of study where all questions and skill levels are welcomed!
This five-week series is for experienced and beginner meditators alike. The sessions examine the history of meditation, comparing and contrasting some of the different techniques taught by various schools – such as the four foundations of mindfulness, deity practice, and open awareness practice.
Feeding Your Demons® Kapala Level I is a simple, profound process in which practitioners transform their demons into protective allies through a sequence of illuminating questions and visualizations. The process employs principles of the Tibetan Buddhist practice Chöd as articulated by Machig Labdrön.
Lama Tsultrim Allione will offer transmission and teachings on the Dzinpa Rangdröl Ngöndro. We are honored to once again offer these foundational practices of the Yangsang Khandro Tug Tig (Exceedingly Secret Heart Essence of the Dakini) cycle, the gateway for entering the profound lineage of the Dzinpa Rangdröl cycle.
In this eight-week course, Erik Jampa Andersson will guide participants through the Eightfold Path of Natural Recovery. Participants will explore what it really means to be human in a more-than-human world, and how to meaningfully engage with ecological consciousness and ethics on the spiritual path.
At the heart of Buddhist teachings lies the invitation to rest in our true nature, an inherent, brilliant wholeness which is not other than the ground of being itself. Recognizing and remembering this fundamental and inextricable connection to everyone and all things paves the way for a life of awakened, joyful compassion.
We invite you to this weekend program to receive inspiration and support to skillfully respond to the suffering in the world in concrete, specific and effective ways. This program will be followed by five monthly support meetings to encourage ongoing support and development of the path from “inner” to “outer” activism.
Taught in German Chöd (wörtlich ‘durchtrennen‘ oder ‘durchschneiden’) ist eine alte tibetisch-buddhistische Praxis, mit der wir Ängsten und Anhaftungen begegnen und uns mit ihnen konfrontieren, indem wir Mitgefühl und Großzügigkeit praktizieren.
Taught in English with French translation The Kapala I Training is the first in a series of in-depth trainings in Feeding your Demons, Prajna Paramita and the lineage of Machig Labdrön. For those interested in offering Feeding your Demons to clients, this is the first level of a three-level Facilitator Certification Training.
Learn the profound practice for accomplishing Tröma Nagmo, the Black Wrathful Mother, known as “Secret Primordial Wisdom.” Participants will receive the Tröma empowerment (Tib. wang), the oral transmission (Tib. lung), and the explanation (Tib. tri) for the practice of Tröma from Dorje Gyaltsab Tulku Ösel Dorje