Extended Studies & Long Term Paths

Extended Studies & Long Term Paths

October 2025

Embodying the Innate Wisdom and Compassion of the Twenty One Taras

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.
11 Oct - 11 Dec
Online

Mandala Method: Journey into the Mandala of the Sacred Masculine

Buddhism views the enlightened masculine as the capacity to act skillfully and with compassion. Learn the Mandala of the Five Buddhas, a practice that aligns sound, visualization, and meditation, providing an inner map and skillful means to transform challenging emotions into liberated wisdom.
17 Oct - 15 Nov
Online

The Great Perfection

Course Five of “The Heart of Buddhism: A Year Long Buddhist Studies Program.” Dzogchen (the “Great Perfection”) and Mahamudra (the “Great Seal”) are considered the highest teachings of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Discover how these teachings offer a direct path to realizing the mind’s innate clarity, and a training ground for abiding in wakefulness. 
24 Oct - 21 Nov
Online
November 2025

Simhamukha: The Lion-Headed Dakini

Join us for two retreat weekends as we take an immersive journey through the transmission, teachings, and practice of Simhamukha: The Lion-Headed Dakini and Lama Tsultrim’s personal transformation work within the mandala.
07 - 23 Nov
Online

Yeshe Tsogyal Sadhana

Tara Mandala invites you to join the Ösel Nyingtig as we continue to unfurl the excellent path of awakening through the means of accomplishing Yeshe Tsogyal’s Glorious Treasure of Great Bliss. Through this method for Accomplishing White Tsogyal one can become inseparable with Yeshe Tsogyal’s enlightened Body, Speech, and Mind.
14 - 16 Nov
All Day
Online
January 2026

Dakini Ngöndro: The Excellent Path of Great Bliss

All are invited to learn the profound Dakini Ngöndro from Orgyen Khakhyab Lingpa Rinpoche’s Ösel Nyingtig terma cycle. This ngӧndro is a collection of practices that condense the Buddhist path into a skillful method for actualizing one’s primordial wisdom and culminate in a practice of Guru Yoga centering on the enlightened feminine. 
17 - 18 Jan
All Day
Online
February 2026

Tsigdön Dzö: Dzogchen Wisdom Teachings Part V

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. 
06 Feb - 11 Mar
Online
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