Aloka, Lama Tsultrim’s and Paul Kloppenburg’s second daughter, is born and the family moves to Boulder, Colorado where she and her husband begin to study with Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. She separates from her husband.

Lama Tsultrim becomes one of the first meditation instructors trained by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Allen Ginsberg requests her as his meditation instructor under the guidance of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

She begins teaching at Naropa Institute (now Naropa University) and works for Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s organization, which was then called Vajradhatu and is now known as Shambhala International.