Tara Mandala Online Programs

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. Explore the symbolic meaning, power, and purpose of the 21 Taras through teachings, embodied meditation, and mantra.

Tara Mandala is deeply honored to announce the continuation of online teachings on the Tsigdön Dzö, “Precious Treasury of Genuine Meaning,” one of the “Seven Treasures” of Longchenpa with the Venerable Adzom Gyalse Rinpoche. Tsigdön Dzö is considered one of the most precise explanations of the instructions on Dzogchen. This is part V of the series. 

How do we cultivate compassion and resilience without solid ground beneath our feet? Madhyamaka, developed by the Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna, offers profound tools for understanding reality that remain relevant to our turbulent times.

This Sadhana of Ama Labkyi Drönma (Machig Labdrön) is from a terma cycle received by terton Khakyab Lingpa from Machig Labdrön in 2007, at Zangri Khamar in Tibet. Lama Tsultrim will teach this truly extraordinary treasure that offers a core practice of Machig Labdrön, the four retinue Dakinis, and the specific activity practices for each family. This will be the first time the sadhana is taught openly in the West. 

After death, without the grounding influence of the physical body, events will overtake us with such speed and intensity there is no chance to stop, ground and meditate. How do we take advantage of our precious human situation and enter the uncertainty of our daily gaps so that we continue to grow and transform?

Life is a dance between the known and unknown, a cycle where death and birth are interwoven. The bardo represents this in-between state — the gap where uncertainty thrives, yet where profound transformation occurs. Explore these gaps in both your lived experiences and through the lens of traditional Tibetan Buddhist teachings.

Through teachings, discussion, and meditation, students are introduced to numerous methods to skilfully bring suffering in all its forms onto the path of awakening.

The Bardo of Meditation is considered to be a gap within the Bardo of Living. It is by meditation that we take control of our energy mind with mindfulness and introspection, and just this provides a relief from delusion and cultivates an inner stillness, clarity, and discernment that leads to freedom from mental afflictions.

Falling asleep is the closest analogy to dying in our normal experience. We practice to be aware of the subtle dissolutions and to rest in the luminosity of sleep. This luminosity is inherent within a continuation of mind and mind’s appearances which occur unceasingly in both our waking state and nighttime dreaming.

The Gateway Dragons will gather to deepen their understanding of the preliminary practices. By invitation only. 

In this advanced level, delve into the teachings of Machig Labdrön, including a profound new practice received directly from her lineage. Participants will expand their Feeding Your Demons journey by working with collective demons—such as those rooted in society, culture, history, and the pervasive demon of ego-clinging.

Death is described as the elements of body and mind being absorbed from coarse to subtle one by one. And yet, this transformation is taking place always:l the elements that make up our existence are continuously arising and dissolving. Whenever we have the feeling of something coming to an end, we taste the Bardo of Dying.

In the Bardo of Dharmata, we experience great changes in external appearances. We are transitioning from the appearance of our previous life to the appearances of the next life. We experience this gap as the radiance of the clear light of the primordial ground, manifesting as light, vibration, color and sound.

Delve into the Bardo of Becoming, a powerful concept in Tibetan Buddhism, which occurs between the dissolution of death, and the emergence of new life. This bardo is marked by confusion and challenge, but also by the potential for liberation.