Community Building, a 6,000 sq. ft. double-walled, adobe structure is completed. It houses the kitchen, dining hall, store, full bathroom facilities, and offices.

Lama Gyurme Rabgye and his brother Palden carve the columns and paint the lintels on the Tara Shrine. The shrine is built on the ridge called the ‘Charnel Grounds,’ just below Ekajati Peak. where A’dzom Rinpoche saw Tara’s right knee in his vision two years earlier. The work is completed by Palden.

Charlotte and Pieter Oosthuizen are named Tara Mandala’s executive directors working as co-directors.

Ellen Booth Church (Yeshe Choepel) becomes an authorized teacher by Lama Tsultrim after the Prajnaparamita retreat at Spirit Rock. Ellen has vivid dreams of the dakinis and seed syllables while at the retreat. Lama Tsultrim introduces the Mandala of the Five Wisdom Dakinis sadhana to the participants and announces that Ellen will teach the new Mandala of the Five Wisdom Dakinis sadhana.

The Ratna Retreat Cabin is built.