“The blessings of these treasures are so fresh, the warm breath of the Dakini is still upon them!”
~ A.dzom Rinpoche
Ösel Nyingtig Gathering
With Lama Tsultrim Allione and Dorje Gyaltsab Tulku Ösel Dorje • August 4 – 10
Onsite Retreat in Colorado
Our vision is to be on the land, the Ösel Nyingtig “tersa” (earth where terma is revealed) to meet each other in person finally. Early August is a beautiful time on the land to practice together, cultivate community and feel the blessings of the land where this terma was first discovered. Tulku Ösel will be teaching in person while Lama Tsultrim will be offering her teachings via broadcast to the students in this retreat … Read more »
Ösel Nyingtig Cycle: Yeshe Tsogyal Sadhana
With Lama Tsultrim Allione and Dorje Gyaltsab Tulku Ösel Dorje • August 5 – 9
Virtual Retreat
The auspicious interdependence that was set in motion in last year’s The Excellent Path of Great Bliss of the Dakini Ngöndro is brought to fruition in this practice. This Sadhana or Means for Accomplishing White Tsogyal known as The Glorious Treasure of Great Bliss has the potency to bless us so that we can completely overcome all the deluded appearances of samsara and nirvana without exception by bringing forth naturally occurring primordial wisdom and great bliss … Read more »
Ösel Nyingtig Cycle: Special Instructions of the Exceedingly Secret Tröma – Part 1
With Lama Tsultrim Allione and Dorje Gyaltsab Tulku Ösel Dorje • August 7 – 10
Virtual Retreat
In this retreat we will begin to offer the Special Instruction on the Exceedingly Secret Tröma, known as the Perfection of Secret Primordial Wisdom. Observing the sequence found in this text we will begin this special method for accomplishing secret primordial wisdom by offering the preliminary practices associated with Tröma Nagmo. Followed by the first of five instructions for purifying deluded awareness and appearances … Read more »
ABOUT THE TEACHERS
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 … Read more »
Dorje Gyaltsab Tulku Ösel Dorje
Dorje Gyaltsab Tulku Ösel Dorje was born in Rome, Italy in 1980 to an Italian filmmaker, Costanzo Allione, and Lama Tsultrim Allione. From birth, he was exposed to the Dharma throughout his childhood, and in his early twenties became a serious practitioner once he met his root Guru, completing four years of solitary retreat. He also holds a master’s degree in Buddhist Studies from Kathmandu University. He was recognized by A.dzom Rinpoche as the reincarnation of the great 8th-century yogi Yudra Nyingpo in 2003, this was kept secret until 2019 when he was formally enthroned by A.dzom Rinpoche. He was enthroned by Lama Tsultrim in 2019 as Dorje Gyalstab (Vajra Regent) of Tara Mandala and is now resident Lama at Tara Mandala, as well as being a member of the Board of Trustees and Prajna Council. He lives there with his wife Cady and two sons and teaches nationally and internationally … Read more »
We look forward to sharing this gathering and deeper journey into the Ösel Nyingtig with you.
~With Blessings,
Tara Mandala
