“Our consciousness always has the potential of finding its way back to wholeness …” ~ Lama Tsultrim Allione, from her book Wisdom Rising
21 Tārās for the 21st Century
With Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton • January 9 – April 3
Online Course
Dorje Lopön Chandra guides us into the heart of Tārā and seven of her twenty-one manifestations – the eighth to fourteenth Tārās. This course is part two of a three part series – a stand-alone study, and you do not need to have received the teachings in Part 1 to participate. All are welcome … Read more »
Chöd: From Chögyal Namkhai Norbu
With Lopön Karla Jackson-Brewer, M.S. • January 15 – 23
Virtual Retreat
The practice of Chöd cuts through that which inhibits us from freedom. Join Lopön Karla Jackson-Brewer for a special time engaging in personal and social transformation over the course of two consecutive weekends, with a special Dharma Talk in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, January 17 … Read more »
Sutrayana – Walking the Buddha’s Path to Genuine Happiness
With Lopön Debra Quayle • January 16 – March 6
Online Course
An 8-week journey following the path the Buddha walked to enhanced wisdom, inner peace, and joy. Learn and practice meditation and establish a conscious practice of Buddhist ethics, awareness, and wisdom into your daily life … Read more »
Invoking the Great Mother: Reject White Privilege, Confront Anti-Blackness, Manifest Equity
With Lopön Karla Jackson-Brewer, M.S. • January 17
Virtual Dharma Talk
How do we have the courage to confront within ourselves the hidden pockets of privilege, our woundedness and confidently step out against the rise of anti-Blackness around the world? How do we successfully envision a world that has at its core the value of fairness and equity among all people? Dharma provides a path, and we can turn to the Great Mother for guidance … Read more »
Ösel Nyingtig Cycle: Tröma Chöd – with translation in Italian, German, and Polish
With Lama Tsultrim Allione and Dorje Gyaltsab Tulku Ösel Dorje • January 20 – 23
Virtual Retreat
Please note- this is a special retreat scheduled with specific timing for our European students with translation available in Italian, German, and Polish. This teaching on Tröma’s Practice Chöd is permeated with the secret Dzogchen teachings and is considered extremely esoteric and advanced. Therefore, this practice is only open and … Read more »
Ecological Narcissism: Acknowledging Egocentricity and Reawakening Our Ecological Self
With Jeanine M. Canty, PhD • February 5
Virtual Dharma Talk
As the realities of our climate crisis have moved from a distant future to the very present, our society is still enmeshed in a false reality that numbs out ecological and social concerns and instead focuses on our small, often self-centered needs. Our small cocoons keep us safe from the larger chaos around us, yet are damaging … Read more »
Ancestral Great Mothers At The Root of Spiritual Practice
With Osho Zenju Earthlyn Manuel • February 12
Virtual Dharma Talk
Osho Zenju will speak on indigenous traditions and how they supported her while being transmitted Buddha’s teachings. Specifically, she will bring to the foreground her experience of liberating qualities of the feminine power found in these ancient mothers: the Igbo African Mother water goddess Mami Wata and the Mother of all Buddhas, Prajnaparamita … Read more »
Be Your Own Valentine – Yoga and Meditation
With With Lopön Polly Ryan, MA, MFT and Gretchen Donovan • February 12 – 13
‘Share The Dharma’ Virtual Retreat
This Share the Dharma Initiative virtual retreat is offered free of charge through the generosity of sponsoring donors. Be your own valentine and ignite love and passion from the inside out. Learn and practice the Buddhist meditation of Shamatha. Experience accessible and nourishing yoga and movement designed to inspire groundedness, connection, clarity, strength, and courage … Read more »
Feeding Your Demons® Level II
With Lama Tsultrim Allione, Magyu Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen • February 12 – April 22
Online Course
Continue your journey along the Feeding Your Demons® (FYD) path. This online course is offered through two tracks: The Secular and Buddhist tracks. We offer the “Full Certification” FYD option, which includes FYD Levels I and II … Read more »
Feeding Your Demons® Level I
With Lama Tsultrim Allione, Magyu Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam and
Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen • March 5 – May 1
Online Course
Begin your journey with Feeding Your Demons® (FYD). This online course is offered through two tracks: The Secular and Buddhist tracks. We offer the “Full Certification” FYD option, which includes FYD Levels I and II … Read more »
Sahaja: Spontaneous Union
With Lama Tsultrim Allione • March 5 – 12
Retreat @ Blue Spirit Retreat Center, Costa Rica
The word ‘Sahaja’ means both spontaneous enlightenment and union. This retreat will be based on the ancient Buddhist tantric teachings of Sahaja, brought into the modern context. Lama Tsultrim will share the spontaneous liberation teachings of the eighth century yogis and yoginis such as Saraha, Sahajayoginicinta, and the Mahasiddhas … Read more »
The Black Dākinī’s Skillful Laughter: Healing Chöd and Intersectional Selves
With Amelia Hall, PhD • March 6
Virtual Dharma Talk
The 20th century Nyingma treasure revealer Kunzang Dechen Lingpa revealed his chöd practice in the 1950s, likely during his period of living in the sacred Tibetan hidden land of Pemako. The Wrathful Black ḍākinī (Throma Nagmo) practice in Tibetan Buddhist history connects to the 8th century CE and Padmasambhava, who … Read more »
Poising the Mind for Insight
With Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel • March 12
Virtual Dharma Talk
The perfection of wisdom, or prajnaparamita in Sanskrit, refers to the mind poised for insight into the nature of reality. The highest purpose of these teachings is to remind us who we truly are; to point out the magnificence of the world we move about in, and to give us … Read more »
Wisdom Rising: Journey into the Sacred Masculine
With Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen and Lopön Karla Jackson-Brewer, M.S. • March 13 – 17
Virtual Retreat
Buddhism sees the enlightened masculine as the capacity to act skillfully and with wise compassion. These are capacities that must be nurtured by all of us, regardless of our gender identity. This retreat offers us a practical method to awaken the enlightened masculine by empowering us to bring into balance the mutually supportive inner feminine-masculine unity. It is this inner union that allows us to find strength and clarity and create change in our world … Read more »
Green Tara Daylong Practice Intensive
With Magyu Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam • March 19
Virtual Retreat
Join us for a day of deep practice to connect with the luminous compassion of Tara and our innate awakened heart … Read more »
Three Kaya Wisdom Dakini Principle
With Sangye Khandro • March 26
Virtual Dharma Talk
Sangye Khandro will introduce the meaning of the three kayas from a Dzogchen perspective in terms of ground, path, and fruition. She will elaborate upon the way to know and recognize the three kayas based on those three occasions and will then discuss the three kaya dakini principle and how … Read more »
A Dakini At Play: Sera Khandro’s Pith Instructions
With Christina Monson • April 2
Virtual Dharma Talk
Sera Khandro Dewai Dorje (1892-1940), the great Tibetan treasure-revealer and dakini, bequeathed the world an impressive collection of spiritual teachings and riveting stories of life at the turn of that last century in eastern Tibet. Her works include two major cycles of treasure revelations, biographies, profound Dzogchen instructions, and a compilation of personal advice … Read more »
Inhabiting the Boundless Heart: Yoga and Meditation
With Lopön Polly Ryan, MA, MFT and Meg McCraken • April 23-24
‘Share The Dharma’ Virtual Retreat
This Share the Dharma Initiative virtual retreat is offered free of charge through the generosity of sponsoring donors. We are called to cultivate the strength, direction, and fortitude to move beyond the unconscious drive of our habitual tendencies, and to anchor in the true nature of our boundless hearts. Come as you are, and leave revitalized at every level of your being … Read more »
Practitioner in Residence (PIR) Program
Open Dates
The Practitioners In Residence (PIR) Program is an opportunity for experienced Buddhist Vajrayana practitioners to immerse in a residential community centered on daily practice and study at Tara Mandala Retreat Center … Read more »
Feeding Your Demons®
With Lama Tsultrim Allione, Magyu Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen • Open Dates
Self-Paced Online Course
Join the Feeding Your Demons® Online Course and become certified to use this method in a professional setting with clients, or choose the à la carte options for personal growth and enrichment. Through compelling content and practice assignments, participants engage in a journey of … Read more »
Visit our website for more info and to register. We look forward to practicing the Dharma with you in the coming months!
~With Blessings,
Tara Mandala
