Explore our diverse offerings — from in-person retreats and online programs to day-long dharma events, self-paced courses, and long-term study paths — and discover the next step on your path to awakening.
UPCOMING RETREATS
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The Path of Liberation
Course One of “The Heart of Buddhism: A Year Long Buddhist Studies Program.” Experience how the Buddha’s own journey offers profound guidance for navigating today’s challenges. The exploration begins with five weekly sessions, each carefully designed to build understanding and practice.
Lama Tsultrim Allione
Amelia Hall PhD
Wendy Garling
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The Heart of Buddhism: A Year Long Buddhist Studies Program
Explore the history, core teachings and practices that guide Buddhist practitioners in the Tibetan tradition in waking up to their true nature of innate compassion and wisdom. Each five-week course builds upon the previous while standing alone as a complete teaching, and may be taken individually.
Lama Tsultrim Allione
Tulku Ösel Dorje
Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton
Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv
Miranda Shaw PhD
Amelia Hall PhD
Lopön Karla Jackson-Brewer
Wendy Garling
Erik Pema Kunsang
Robert Thurman PhD
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Feeding Your Demons® Level II (Kapala II)
Feeding Your Demons® is a revolutionary approach fusing ancient Tibetan wisdom and modern psychology. Deepen your training and knowledge of FYD in Level II. Completion of FYD Level I and related prerequisites are required. FYD Level II is offered in Buddhist (Kapala) and Secular Tracks. Secular Track starts 3/1/25.
Lama Tsultrim Allione
Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv
Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen
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Feeding Not Fighting with DHARMA FRIENDS
A partnership between Tara Mandala and Dharma Friends. Join us for an experiential practice coupled with an intimate discussion on loving all parts of ourselves. This event will feature a guided Feeding Your Demons practice, a highly effective meditation inspired by the Chöd practice and developed by Lama Tsultrim Allione. At Tibet House NYC and Online.
Lopön Karla Jackson-Brewer
Kevin Townley
Megan Mook
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Seasonal Teacher Seminars: Winter Session
These half-day seminars are designed to facilitate communication and connection between Lama Tsultrim and her lineage holders and teachers as well as to provide on-going training, inspiration and support for Lopöns, Chögés, and Apprentice Teachers.
Tara Mandala Teachers
Lopön Polly Ryan MA MFT
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Tsigdön Dzö Dzogchen Wisdom Teachings Part III
Tara Mandala is deeply honored to announce the continuation of online teachings on the Tsigdön Dzö, “Precious Treasury of Genuine Meaning,” one of the “Seven Treasures” of Longchenpa with the Venerable Adzom Gyalse Rinpoche. Tsigdön Dzö is considered one of the most precise explanations of the instructions on Dzogchen.
Adzom Gyalse Rinpoche
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What the Buddha Taught
Course Two of “The Heart of Buddhism: A Year Long Buddhist Studies Program.” Learn how the Buddha’s insights into suffering and liberation speak directly to our modern experience. Delve into the essence of the Eightfold Path: the Buddha’s step by step instructions for liberating ourselves from suffering.
Lama Tsultrim Allione
Amelia Hall PhD
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Feeding Your Demons® Level I (Kapala I)
Feeding Your Demons® is a revolutionary approach fusing ancient Tibetan wisdom and modern psychology. In Feeding Your Demons Level I, you will learn this potent, life-changing method, creating meaningful transformation in a world that is ripe for profound healing. FYD Level I is offered in Buddhist (Kapala) and Secular Tracks.
Lama Tsultrim Allione
Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv
Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen
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Spiritual Allies: Look for the Helpers with DHARMA FRIENDS
A partnership between Tara Mandala and Dharma Friends. In the final event of our Winter Cycle, Lopön Karla Jackson Brewer will introduce The Ally Practice. In this stand alone practice, participants learn to call in the support of their spiritual allies. The evening will conclude with a soothing sound meditation using a variety of instruments. At Tibet House NYC and Online.
Lopön Karla Jackson-Brewer MS
Kevin Townley
Megan Mook
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Mandala Method: Journey Into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine
Discover the mandala principle, the fierce feminine of the dakinis, and the five Buddha families. Learn the Mandala of the Five Wisdom Dakinis, a practice that aligns sound, visualization, and meditation, providing an inner map and skillful means to transform challenging emotions into liberated wisdom.
Lama Tsultrim Allione
Chögé Lisa Erickson
Chögé Bridget Bailey
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The Awakened Heart
Course Three of “The Heart of Buddhism: A Year Long Buddhist Studies Program.” Discover Mahayana Buddhism’s revolutionary teachings on wisdom and compassion, illuminated through the feminine embodiment of Prajnaparamita, transforming personal awakening into boundless benefit for all beings.
Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton
Lopön Karla Jackson-Brewer
Robert Thurman PhD
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Seasonal Teacher Seminars: Spring Session
These half-day seminars are designed to facilitate communication and connection between Lama Tsultrim and her lineage holders and teachers as well as to provide on-going training, inspiration and support for Lopöns, Chögés, and Apprentice Teachers.
Tara Mandala Teachers
Lopön Polly Ryan MA MFT
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Dzogchen: The Three Statements that Strike the Crucial Point
Drawing from over 50 years of training and practice in Tibetan Buddhism particularly in the Dzogchen tradition, Lama Tsultrim will guide us in the identification of this natural state of self-cognizing awareness through traditional teachings, stories, experiential exercises, and meditations in nature. This retreat takes place in British Columbia, Canada.
Lama Tsultrim Allione
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Sacred View, Sacred World
Course Four of “The Heart of Buddhism: A Year Long Buddhist Studies Program.” Experience the transformative power of Vajrayana Buddhism, the “diamond vehicle,” in which the sacred feminine and householder tradition illuminate a revolutionary path that transforms every experience into an opportunity for awakening.
Lama Tsultrim Allione
Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv
Miranda Shaw PhD
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Mandala Method: Certification Capstone
This is a closed retreat only for participants in the Fall 2025 cohort of the Mandala Method Certification Program.
Chögé Lisa Erickson
Chögé Bridget Bailey
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Mandala Method: Journey into the Mandala of the Sacred Masculine
Buddhism views the enlightened masculine as the capacity to act skillfully and with compassion. Learn the Mandala of the Five Buddhas, a practice that aligns sound, visualization, and meditation, providing an inner map and skillful means to transform challenging emotions into liberated wisdom.
Chögé Lisa Erickson
Chögé Bridget Bailey
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The Great Perfection
Course Five of “The Heart of Buddhism: A Year Long Buddhist Studies Program.” Dzogchen (the “Great Perfection”) and Mahamudra (the “Great Seal”) are considered the highest teachings of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Discover how these teachings offer a direct path to realizing the mind’s innate clarity, and a training ground for abiding in wakefulness.
Lama Tsultrim Allione
Tulku Ösel Dorje
Erik Pema Kunsang