After six months in India and Nepal, Lama Tsultrim returns to America and goes back to college. Feeling the wisdom she longs to learn is not being taught in…
Having read every book available about Tibet at the time, Lama Tsultrim travels to Nepal and India with Vicki Hitchcock in hopes of learning to paint mandalas. In Nepal,…
Lama Tsultrim begins college at Colorado University, Boulder where she found her first book on yoga in the university library and meets Vicki Hitchcock who becomes her best friend.…
While visiting her grandparents in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she came upon Dr. Carl Jung’s book, Man and His Symbols, which had a Tibetan mandala on the cover. The book…
At 15, Lama Tsultrim is introduced to Buddhism. Her grandmother, Frances Roumanière Dewing, gives her a book of Buddhist poetry and paintings called Zen Telegrams by Paul Reps…
Lama Tsultrim moves to Keene, New Hampshire with her family where her father becomes publisher of the Keene Evening Sentinel, a daily newspaper.
Lama Tsultrim Allione was born in Bangor, Maine, on October 3, 1947, as Joan Rousmanière Ewing. Her father, James D. Ewing, published a small-town New England newspaper, and…