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		<title>Mandala of the Male and Female Buddhas A Yab Yum Retreat</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday May 20th, 11:00 a.m. ~ Thursday May 24th, 4:00 p.m. Facilitated by: Ellen Booth Church Held at: Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, Occidental, Ca. &#160; Explore their inner and outer dance of the Masculine and Feminine and find balance and peace. &#160; The sacred union Mandala of the Five Wisdom Male and Female Buddhas &#8230; <a href="http://taramandala.org/4753/mandala-of-the-male-and-female-buddhas-a-yab-yum-retreat/">More <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Win a free retreat! Sustaining Sangha Membership Raffle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have been putting off joining Sustaining Sangha, now is a great moment!   All new Sustaining Sangha members who join by May 1st will be entered into a drawing to win a free one week private or group retreat* at Tara Mandala. In addition, if you refer a new Sustaining Sangha member, your name will also &#8230; <a href="http://taramandala.org/4731/sustaining-sangha-membership-raffle/">More <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Warm Greetings from the Tara Mandala Board of Trustees!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Board’s primary purpose and goal is to ensure Tara Mandala’s ongoing vitality, financial stability, and adherence to Lama Tsultrim’s vision. We recently met at Tara Mandala for our semi-annual on-land meeting, a gathering that included much creative discussion, planning, celebration and honoring of transitions. One of the wonderful challenges we now have is to &#8230; <a href="http://taramandala.org/4722/warm-greetings-from-the-tara-mandala-board-of-trustees/">More <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Anam Thubten Teaching at Tara Mandala</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anam Thubten spent much of his childhood and young adult life in a Nyingma monastery in Tibet where he received the benefit of extensive academic and spiritual training from several teachers. After arriving in America in the early 1990’s, Anam Thubten began to teach the Dharma at the request of others and today teaches extensively &#8230; <a href="http://taramandala.org/4378/anam-thubten-teaching-at-tara-mandala/">More <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking Through the Waves: Lama Tsultrim Allione Talks About Becoming the Woman She Was Looking For</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mary Gilliland talks with Lama Tsultrim Allione Lama Tsultrim Allione, M.A. was one of the first American women to be ordained as a Tibetan nun in 1970 by the 16th Karmapa. After four years as a nun, she returned her monastic vows, married, and raised a family of three. Author of Women of Wisdom and Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom &#8230; <a href="http://taramandala.org/4559/breaking-through-the-waves-lama-tsultrim-allione-talks-about-becoming-the-woman-she-was-looking-for/">More <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Losar Greetings from Lama Tsultrim Allione</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Losar Greetings! It is the year of the Water Dragon and I am writing just after finishing retreat. I have been in retreat most of the time since the beginning of the year. All the residents of Tara Mandala also recently came out of an annual two week pre-Losar (Tibetan New Year) retreat. So, like the &#8230; <a href="http://taramandala.org/4474/losar-greetings-from-lama-tsultrim-allione/">More <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lama Tsultrim&#8217;s end of the year letter</title>
		<link>http://taramandala.org/4041/lama-tsultrims-end-of-the-year-letter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friend, We have passed through a challenging time with the love and support of all of you. In August we completed the memorial tsa tsa kang (a stone structure holding the stupa-like forms of clay mixed with bones) for the co-founder of Tara Mandala, David Petit. Lately I have been thinking about these lines &#8230; <a href="http://taramandala.org/4041/lama-tsultrims-end-of-the-year-letter/">More <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Updates from Lama Tsultrim</title>
		<link>http://taramandala.org/2564/letter-from-lama-tsultrim/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS FLASH!!! His Holiness Orgyen Thrinley the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa has granted my request to bestow the Chöd Empowerment of Machig Labdrön from the Rinchen Trengwa and accompanying teachings Oct. 27-28-29, 2012 in Dharamsala, India. This will be the first time His Holiness has given this empowerment in this life, but his lineage has been &#8230; <a href="http://taramandala.org/2564/letter-from-lama-tsultrim/">More <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>From Lama Tsultrim at Merigar Tuscany Italy</title>
		<link>http://taramandala.org/3711/views-of-the-gompa-at-merigar-tuscany-italy-seat-of-cjogyal-namkhai-norbu-in-italy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Views of the Gompa at Merigar Tuscany Italy seat of Cjogyal Namkhai Norbu in Italy &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Lama Tsultrim in Europe</title>
		<link>http://taramandala.org/3539/lama-tsultrim-in-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From November 18 to 19, 2011, Lama Tsultrim taught Feeding Your Demons to 70 people in Switzerland at Villa Unspunnen, a Sufi center started by Annette Kaiser. The center is located near a lake in the Bernese Oberland with a stunning view of three mountain peaks. The weather was clear and beautiful. On November 20, &#8230; <a href="http://taramandala.org/3539/lama-tsultrim-in-europe/">More <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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