Recordings of Tsigdon Dzo Dzogchen Wisdom Teachings Part II
With Adzom Gyalse Rinpoche
Open Dates
Online - Zoom
For those who were unable to attend Part II of the Tsigdön Dzö, “Precious Treasury of Genuine Meaning,” one of the “Seven Treasures” of Longchenpa with Adzom Gyalse Rinpoche, we are honored to share this precious opportunity for you to receive the teachings via recording and join us as we…
Oral Transmission Event
With Lama Tsultrim Allione
Open Dates
A Lung is an oral transmission of a practice, and will be offered for our Self-Paced Green Tara, Chöd, Zhitro, Riwo Sangchö courses. Anyone is welcome to receive a Lung as a blessing and connection to a certain practice. If you have already received the Lung, you are welcome to…
Recordings of Part I Tsigdon Dzod Dzogchen Wisdom Teachings
With Adzom Gyalse Rinpoche
Open Dates
Online - Zoom
For those who were unable to attend Part 1 of the Tsigdön Dzöd, “Precious Treasury of Genuine Meaning,” one of the “Seven Treasures” of Longchenpa with Adzom Gyalse Rinpoche, we are honored to share this precious opportunity for you to receive the teachings via recording and join us as we…
Opening the Heart Sutra Self Paced Program
With Lama Tsultrim Allione
Open Dates
Online
Engage with the concise teaching of Prajnaparamita, in this profound conversation between Shariputra and Avalokiteshvara. Through guiding participants line-by-line through the Heart Sutra, you will receive a functional overview of Mahayana philosophy and gain deeper insight into the world of this treasured text.
Machig Labdron and the Nature of Mind Self Paced Program
With Lama Tsultrim Allione
Open Dates
Online
Engage with the powerful teachings of the great Tibetan yogini, Machig Labdrön, on the ‘nature of mind’ as taught by her direct emanation, Lama Tsultrim Allione. Connect to Machig’s pith instructions, the essence of her teaching.
Chod of Chogyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche Self Paced Program
With Lama Tsultrim Allione and Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton
Open Dates
Online
Cut through fear, fixation and clinging, by nurturing not fighting, what disturbs our mind. This Chod practice is empowered through the lineage of the Tibetan Dzogchen master, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu.
Green Tara Self Paced Program
With Lama Tsultrim Allione and Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv
Open Dates
Online
A great introductory course for understanding ‘deity’ practice in Buddhism. Green Tara sits with one foot in the meditative posture and one foot in the world, thus embodying active compassion and serving as a model for modern day contemplative life.
Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine Self Paced Program
With Lama Tsultrim Allione
Open Dates
Online
Be guided through the development of the feminine in Buddhism, and understand how each of the five Dakini’s key ‘encumbered’ emotions and wisdom qualities are within each of us. By being introduced to the mandala principle and its importance to western and eastern psychology, you will understand the fierce feminine…
Riwo Sangcho Self Paced Program
With Lama Tsultrim Allione and Anna Raithel
Open Dates
Online
A practice to heal the suffering of samsara, through the practice of boundless compassion and abundant offering. Learn the widespread and traditional practice of Riwo Sangchö – “a mountainside smoke offering.”
Zhitro Self Paced Program
With Lama Tsultrim Allione
Open Dates
Online
The simple and accessible practice of Zhitro offers a real way for a practitioner to help the deceased. This practice also helps individuals become familiar with the visions and experiences that may occur during the 49 days following one's own passing.
Audio Digital Download of Messages from the Divine Wrathful Mother
With Sangye Khandro
Open Dates
Audio (MP3) + Transcript (PDF) This talk by Sangye Khandro, from the ‘Voices of Wisdom in Times of Crisis’ symposium, describes the group of beings known as Mamos, and the specific messages they have for us in this time of great change.
Lama Live!
With Lama Tsultrim Allione
Open Dates
Online - Facebook and YouTube
Lama Live! is a livestream event where we can gather together as a community for meditation, prayer, and teachings from Lama Tsultrim Allione and other guest teachers on Sundays at 9am PT.
Feeding Your Demons® – Online Program
With Lama Tsultrim Allione, Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen
Open Dates
Online
Feeding Your Demons® (FYD) is a profoundly effective method for recognizing and transforming the deep-seated patterns, triggers, and neuroses that undermine the quality and enjoyment of our lives. Learn more about the whole program here.
Personal Retreat in Prajna Residence Hall
Open Dates
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
Due to COVID-19 we are not currently holding retreats in Prajña Residence Hall. Please see our retreat cabins for solitary retreat opportunities.
Retreat Cabins
Open Dates
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
The beauty of nature, quietness, and solitude supported me so much in letting the vajra mind shine through. Having time for my practice with no outer worldly pressure helped me to deeply relax into my meditation, creating space. I’m deeply grateful for this precious time on Tara’s Land! -Vera…
Longing to Awaken: Buddhist Devotion in Tibetan Poetry and Song – Christina Monson Memorial Lecture Series
With Holly Gayley and Dominique Townsend
September 28, 2024
Online - Zoom
རང་སེམས་སངས་རྒྱས་མ་མཐོང་བར། ། བླ་མ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཟེར་ན་ཡང༌། ། བཅོས་མ་གཞན་གྱི་ལད་མོ་ཙམ། ། དད་པ་དེས་ཀྱང་རྐྱེན་མི་ཐུབ། ། Without seeing one’s own mind as Buddha, even if you say “my guru is a buddha,” such devotion will not withstand difficulties. It’s just a contrived imitation of others. —Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorjé What is devotion in a Buddhist context? Devotion…
Dzinpa Rangdrol Ngondro
With Lama Tsultrim Allione, Lopön Beth Lee-Herbert and Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton
January 16 - March 31, 2025
Online - Zoom
The recordings of this program are available to audit. Lama Tsultrim Allione will offer the live lung (Tib. "oral transmission") for this practice on March 22, 2025. Please register for the free event here. The application deadline to join the next cohort of supported Ngöndro with the Gateway Program has…
The Heart of Buddhism A Year Long Buddhist Studies Program
With Lama Tsultrim Allione, Amelia Hall PhD, Lopön Karla Jackson-Brewer MS, Robert Thurman PhD, Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv, Miranda Shaw PhD, Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton, Tulku Ösel Dorje, Wendy Garling and Erik Pema Kunsang
January 31 - November 21, 2025
Online - Zoom
Welcome to The Heart of Buddhism: A Year Long Buddhist Studies Program. Throughout 2025, we'll 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. The Buddhist path offers profound guidance for working…
The Path of Liberation
With Lama Tsultrim Allione, Amelia Hall PhD and Wendy Garling
January 31 - February 28, 2025
Online - Zoom
Course One of the five-course series, The Heart of Buddhism: A Year Long Buddhist Studies Program with Lama Tsultrim Allione and guest teachers. The Buddhist Path The Buddhist path offers profound guidance for working with the individual and collective challenges we face — and transforming suffering into liberation. These teachings show…
Tsigdon Dzo Dzogchen Wisdom Teachings Part III
With Adzom Gyalse Rinpoche
March 5 - April 4, 2025
Online - Zoom
Tara Mandala is deeply honored to continue the online teaching series 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 clearest, most explicit, and complete explanations of the instructions on…
What the Buddha Taught
With Amelia Hall PhD and Lama Tsultrim Allione
March 21 - April 18, 2025
Online - Zoom
Course Two of the five-course series, The Heart of Buddhism: A Year Long Buddhist Studies Program with Lama Tsultrim Allione and guest teachers. The Buddhist Path The Buddhist path offers profound guidance for working with the individual and collective challenges we face — and transforming suffering into liberation. These teachings show…
Feeding Your Demons Level I Secular Track
With Lama Tsultrim Allione, Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen
March 22 - May 16, 2025
Online
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.
Feeding Your Demons Level I Buddhist Track Kapala I
With Lama Tsultrim Allione, Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen
March 22 - May 16, 2025
Online
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.
In the Footsteps of Gautami and the First Buddhist Women
With Wendy Garling
April 4, 2025
Online - Zoom
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, this remarkable journey…
Women in the Life of the Buddha
With Wendy Garling
April 5, 2025
Online - Zoom
It’s no secret (and not at all subtle) that women are largely absent in usual stories of the Buddha’s life and 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 that spanned Asia.…
Volunteer Work Week Spring Session
May 8 - 14, 2025
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
Have you ever wished there was a way to express generosity, connect with the Tara Mandala community, and contribute to Tara Mandala and Lama Tsultrim’s legacy beyond financial support? We are excited to invite all members of our global community to come to Tara Mandala in Colorado and help us…
Kago Teachings
With Khandro Dorje Phagmo
May 16 - 18, 2025
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of San Dieguito
Kagö literally means "Blessing of Command/Order" and must be given by a highly realized master. During Kagö, very powerful, profound blessings and healing are given. Khandro la invokes the fierce aspect of Buddha nature which helps the recipient of the blessing at outer, inner, and secret levels, in the following…
Feeding Your Demons Kapala I COLORADO
With Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv
May 17 - 22, 2025
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
Feeding Your Demons® (FYD) is a simple but profound five-step process that guides the practitioner to transform their demons into protective allies through a sequence of illuminating questions and visualizations. Created by Lama Tsultrim Allione, it employs principles of the Tibetan Buddhist practice Chöd, as originally articulated by the eleventh-century…
The Awakened Heart
With Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton, Lopön Karla Jackson-Brewer MS and Robert Thurman PhD
May 22 - June 19, 2025
Online - Zoom
Course Three of the five-course series, The Heart of Buddhism: A Year Long Buddhist Studies Program with Lama Tsultrim Allione and guest teachers. The Buddhist Path The Buddhist path offers profound guidance for working with the individual and collective challenges we face — and transforming suffering into liberation. These teachings show…
Vajravarahi and Hayagriva Teachings
With Khandro Dorje Phagmo
May 23 - 25, 2025
Garchen Buddhist Institute
Khandro Dorje Phagmo will give Vajravarahi and Hayagriva Teachings and Long Life Blessings. Join the waitlist to be notified when Garchen Buddhist Institute opens registration. More information forthcoming. By joining this waiting list, you will receive an email notification when further details are available and/or registration is open
Seasonal Teacher Seminars Spring Session
With Lopön Polly Ryan MA MFT
May 23, 2025
Online - Zoom
These half-day seminars with Lopön Polly Ryan (and additional presenters) are designed to facilitate communication and connection between Lama Tsultrim and her lineage holders and teachers and to provide ongoing training, inspiration, and support for both Senior and Apprentice Teachers. Program Schedule This seminar will be offered via Zoom and…
Spring Open House
May 24, 2025
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
You are invited to join us for a guided tour of our beautiful Retreat Center and Tara Temple and an introduction to Buddhist meditation.
Avalokitesvara Teachings
With Khandro Dorje Phagmo
May 30 - June 2, 2025
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
Khandro Dorje Phagmo will give Avalokitesvara Teachings. More information forthcoming. By joining this waiting list, you will receive an email notification when further details are available and/or registration is open.
Buddhist Spiritual Care
With Amelia Hall PhD and
June 5 - 10, 2025
Online - Zoom
Join us for an immersive introduction to the foundational elements of contemplative Buddhist chaplaincy. It 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…
Kago and Drolma Jigchobma Empowerment and Teachings
With Khandro Dorje Phagmo
June 6 - 8, 2025
Orgyen Dorje Den
Khandro Dorje Phagmo will give Kagö and Drolma Jigchobma Empowerment and Teachings for Overcoming the Eight Great Fears. Kagö literally means "Blessing of Command/Order" and must be given by a highly realized master. During Kagö, very powerful, profound blessings and healing are given. Khandro la invokes the fierce aspect of…
Green Tara
With Tulku Ösel Dorje
June 14 - 18, 2025
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
Take the Wind Out of Fear and Suffering Green Tara, revered as the embodiment of swift compassion in Tibetan Buddhism, is a female Buddha who offers immediate protection from our fears and suffering. She is ever-present and accessible to all who call upon her. With one foot in meditation and…
Ritual Arts
With Anna Raithel
July 2 - 5, 2025
Join Chopön Anna Raithel and the Tara Mandala Temple team to prepare for the White Dakini Drubcho. We will arrange the White Dakini mandala and offering shrines, learn the tormas, flower and butterlamps offerings, and prepare for the daily tsogs and concluding fire puja (Tib. Jinseg). As time allows, we'll…
Dzinpa Rangdrol Ngondro Practice Retreat ONLINE
With Lopön Beth Lee-Herbert
July 2 - 5, 2025
Online - Zoom
The Gateway Dragons cohort will gather on the land and online to practice the beautiful and profound Dzinpa Rangdröl Ngöndro. The cohort will focus on clarifying and deepening their Ngöndro, with practice sessions, community circles, and teachings and Q&A with Lopön Beth. The retreat experience is designed to create a…
Dzinpa Rangdrol Ngondro Practice Retreat COLORADO
With Lopön Beth Lee-Herbert
July 2 - 5, 2025
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
The Gateway Dragons cohort will gather on the land and online to practice the beautiful and profound Dzinpa Rangdröl Ngöndro. The cohort will focus on clarifying and deepening their Ngöndro, with practice sessions, community circles, and teachings and Q&A with Lopön Beth. The retreat experience is designed to create a…
White Dakini Drubcho
With Lama Tsultrim Allione and Tulku Ösel Dorje
July 5 - 11, 2025
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
What is a Drubchö? Drubchö means Accomplishment Ritual. It is an intensive practice retreat focused around the activation of a central mandala that contains objects and substances that are empowered during the ritual. It is similar to the Drubchen that we have offered the last ten years, but without the…
The Osel Nyingtig Gathering ONLINE
With Tulku Ösel Dorje and Lama Tsultrim Allione
July 16 - 21, 2025
Online - Zoom
This is the registration page for the ONLINE Gathering. To register for the ON LAND program, please register here. Tara Mandala warmly invites all students in the Ösel Nyingtig Lineage who have received the Tröma Nagmo Empowerment to join this special annual retreat. This year’s gathering will be dedicated to…
The Magyu Gathering ONLINE
With Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv and Lama Tsultrim Allione
July 16 - 21, 2025
Online - Zoom
This is the registration page for the ONLINE Gathering. To register for the ON LAND program, please register here. In the words of Machig Labdrön: When one realizes that all comes from mind, there is not the slightest object left to be cut through. When one realizes the emptiness of…
The Osel Nyingtig Gathering COLORADO
With Tulku Ösel Dorje and Lama Tsultrim Allione
July 16 - 21, 2025
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
This is the registration page for the ON LAND Gathering. To register for the ONLINE program, please register here. Tara Mandala warmly invites all students in the Ösel Nyingtig Lineage who have received the Tröma Nagmo Empowerment to join this special annual retreat. This year’s gathering will be dedicated to…
The Magyu Gathering COLORADO
With Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv and Lama Tsultrim Allione
July 16 - 21, 2025
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
This is the registration page for the ON LAND Gathering. To register for the ONLINE program, please register here. In the words of Machig Labdrön: When one realizes that all comes from mind, there is not the slightest object left to be cut through. When one realizes the emptiness of…
Dzogchen: The Three Statements that Strike the Crucial Point
With Lama Tsultrim Allione
August 8 - 13, 2025
Hollyhock on Cortes Island, British Columbia
The Three Statements were the final teaching of Garab Dorje, after he passed away and when he appeared in the rainbow body to his close disciple Manjusrimitra. We all have an awakened presence within us that can never be stained or tainted, but it can be hidden, like clouds covering…
Phowa
With Chagdud Khadro
August 14 - 17, 2025
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
The ability to transfer consciousness into an exalted state at the moment of death allows us to live with less fear of dying. P’howa transforms death into an opportunity for liberation rather than it being merely a severance from what we have known and loved in life. It assures us…
Yeshe Lama
With Lama Rigzin Drolma, Lama Namgyal Dorje and Tulku Ösel Dorje
August 14 - 22, 2025
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
A Rare and Historic Retreat at Tara Mandala In the Longchen Nyingthig tradition, Jigme Lingpa’s Yeshe Lama teachings, typically undertaken after completing Ngondro, serve as a key manual for Dzogchen. Adzom Rinpoche previously taught this at Tara Mandala for three consecutive years. Many of his students have longed for its…
Dudjom Lingpa Nang Jang
With Dungse Jigme Wangdrak Rinpoche
August 22 - 25, 2025
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
Tara Mandala is honored to announce the offering of reading transmission (Tib. lung) and precious teachings on Dudjom Lingpa’s Nang Jang by Dungse Jigme Wangdrak Rinpoche. This is a continuation of the teachings offered at Tara Mandala in 2024. Rinpoche invites anyone to attend these teachings, even if they did…
Sacred View Sacred World
With Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam MDiv, Lama Tsultrim Allione and Miranda Shaw PhD
September 5 - October 3, 2025
Online - Zoom
Course Four of the five-course series, The Heart of Buddhism: A Year Long Buddhist Studies Program with Lama Tsultrim Allione and guest teachers. The Buddhist Path The Buddhist path offers profound guidance for working with the individual and collective challenges we face — and transforming suffering into liberation. These teachings show…
Seasonal Teacher Seminars Summer Session
With Lopön Polly Ryan MA MFT
September 7, 2025
Online - Zoom
These half-day seminars with Lopön Polly Ryan (and additional presenters) are designed to facilitate communication and connection between Lama Tsultrim and her lineage holders and teachers and to provide ongoing training, inspiration, and support for both Senior and Apprentice Teachers. Program Schedule This seminar will be offered via Zoom and…
Mandala Method Certification Capstone
With Chögé Lisa Erickson and Chögé Bridget Bailey
October 3 - 5, 2025
Online - Zoom
***Registration for this retreat is restricted.*** Please only register if you are part of the Fall 2025 cohort of the Mandala Method Certification Program. This Capstone retreat is the culminating program for this cohort. Participants should have completed all required partner practices of: Guided Journey with Dakini Guided Journey with…
Mandala Method Journey into the Mandala of the Sacred Masculine
With Lopön Ellen Booth Church, Chögé Bridget Bailey and Chögé Lisa Erickson
October 17 - November 7, 2025
Online - Zoom
“The mandala is a template or blueprint of wholeness. It has a center and four directions. Associated with each direction is a color, an element, an obstructed pattern and a wisdom. It is a way to understand yourself and also your world.” – Lama Tsultrim Allione The Mandala of the…
The Great Perfection
With Lama Tsultrim Allione, Tulku Ösel Dorje and Erik Pema Kunsang
October 24 - November 21, 2025
Online - Zoom
FrCourse Five of the five-course series, The Heart of Buddhism: A Year Long Buddhist Studies Program with Lama Tsultrim Allione and guest teachers. The Buddhist Path The Buddhist path offers profound guidance for working with the individual and collective challenges we face — and transforming suffering into liberation. These teachings show…
Yeshe Tsogyal Sadhana
With Tulku Ösel Dorje
November 14 - 16, 2025
Online - Zoom
In this retreat we will continue to go deeper into the dakini world of Yeshe Tsogyal. The auspicious interdependence that was set in motion in last year's The Excellent Path of Great Bliss of the Dakini Ngöndro is brought to fruition in this practice. This Sadhana or Means for Accomplishing…
Seasonal Teacher Seminars Autumn Session
With Lopön Polly Ryan MA MFT
December 5, 2025
Online - Zoom
These half-day seminars with Lopön Polly Ryan (and additional presenters) are designed to facilitate communication and connection between Lama Tsultrim and her lineage holders and teachers and to provide ongoing training, inspiration, and support for both Senior and Apprentice Teachers. Program Schedule This seminar will be offered via Zoom and…
Dakini Ngondro The Excellent Path of Great Bliss
With Tulku Ösel Dorje
December 11 - 14, 2025
Online - Zoom
Tara Mandala invites you to learn the profound Dakini Ngöndro from A.dzom Rinpoche’s Ösel Nyingtig terma cycle. This cycle for accomplishing the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal was first revealed in Tibet at Yeshe Tsogyal’s birthplace. At that time, Yeshe Tsogyal appeared to A.dzom Rinpoche. Through the interdependence of Lama Tsultrim’s request,…