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 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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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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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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In the Footsteps of Gautami and the First Buddhist Women
Join us for this unique slideshow presentation through Buddhism’s Motherland where, for the first time after 2,500 years, a small pilgrimage group retraced the footsteps of the first women practitioners, led by Wendy Garling with special guest Venerable Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, featuring long-forgotten sacred sites and stories.
Wendy Garling
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Women in the Life of the Buddha
It’s no secret that women are largely absent in usual stories from the founding of Buddhism. Yet what we normally learn in the West comes from a very narrow portion of the large corpus of ancient Buddhist literature. What more can we learn about women and their participation at the inception of Buddhism?
Wendy Garling
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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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Buddhist Spiritual Care: An Introduction
An introduction to the foundational elements of contemplative Buddhist chaplaincy. This retreat is designed for those interested in exploring spiritual care through a Buddhist lens and serves as a curriculum sampler of a three-year contemplative chaplaincy program. The retreat is also for those navigating dying, illness, caregiving in all forms, and the myriad of life transitions.
Amelia Hall PhD
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Dzinpa Rangdröl Ngöndro Practice Retreat ONLINE
The Gateway Dragons will gather to deepen their understanding of the preliminary practices. By invitation only.
Lopön Beth Lee-Herbert
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The Ösel Nyingtig Gathering ONLINE
A gathering of Chöd practitioners from both the Magyu and Ösel Nyingtig lineage streams are coming together for a historic retreat on the land of Tara Mandala in the summer of 2025. Join us in community and immerse yourself in the profound teachings of Machig Labdrön and the powerful, resounding melodies of Chöd.
Lama Tsultrim Allione
Tulku Ösel Dorje
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The Magyu Gathering ONLINE
A gathering of Chöd practitioners from both the Magyu and Ösel Nyingtig lineage streams are coming together for a historic retreat on the land of Tara Mandala in the summer of 2025. Join us in community and immerse yourself in the profound teachings of Machig Labdrön and the powerful, resounding melodies of Chöd.
Lama Tsultrim Allione
Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv
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Kyed-Pa Zhi: Methods for Increasing The Four Life Forces
The four major forces in our lives (‘sog,’ ‘lu,’ ‘wang-tang,’ and ‘lung-ta’) continually fluctuate, setting us up for either an enriching, vibrant and successful life, or one of obstacles and frustration. The Kyed-Pa Zhi offers a wealth of practical methods for working with these forces and how to maximize their potential.
Khandro Kunzang Dechen Chodron
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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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Seasonal Teacher Seminars: Summer 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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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.
Lopön Ellen Booth Church
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
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Simhamukha: The Lion-Headed Dakini
Join us for two retreat weekends as we take an immersive journey through the transmission, teachings, and practice of Simhamukha: The Lion-Headed Dakini and Lama Tsultrim’s personal transformation work within the mandala.
Lama Tsultrim Allione
Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv
Miranda Shaw PhD
Lopön Ellen Booth Church
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Yeshe Tsogyal Sadhana
Tara Mandala invites you to join the Ösel Nyingtig as we continue to unfurl the excellent path of awakening through the means of accomplishing Yeshe Tsogyal’s Glorious Treasure of Great Bliss. Through this method for Accomplishing White Tsogyal one can become inseparable with Yeshe Tsogyal’s enlightened Body, Speech, and Mind.
Tulku Ösel Dorje
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Seasonal Teacher Seminars: Autumn 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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Dakini Ngöndro: The Excellent Path of Great Bliss
All are invited to learn the profound Dakini Ngöndro from A.dzom Rinpoche’s Ösel Nyingtig terma cycle. This ngӧndro is a collection of practices that condense the Buddhist path into a skillful method for actualizing one’s primordial wisdom and culminate in a practice of Guru Yoga centering on the enlightened feminine.
Tulku Ösel Dorje