Lama Tsultrim and David find 700 acres of beautiful rolling hills, flowering meadows, and forests in Pagosa Springs, Colorado that bring to life the dreams and visions for a retreat location. This will become Tara Mandala.

What is now the Tara Mandala retreat center sits on the ancestral lands of the Ute and Pueblo peoples of the San Juan Mountains. Lama Tsultrim and her community asked permission from the Elders of the Ute Nation to use their land as a refuge of Tibetan Buddhism in the West.