Tsultrim Allione at A Glance
Tsultrim Allione has a master's in Buddhism/Women's Studies from Antioch University. She is one of the first Western women to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun. She has been practicing Buddhism for over thirty years and has taught all over the world. She is Director of Tara Mandala, a retreat center in SW Colorado near the 4 corners, in Pagosa Springs. She is the author of Women of Wisdom, and has several audio CDs as well.
This story took place over a number of years starting in 1995. That year I attended a Sufi retreat at Lama Foundation in Questa, NM. During the retreat we had some quiet times and I wandered into the library. For some reason a book titled Women of Wisdom jumped off the shelf and I decided to do some quiet reading. They would not let you remove the books from the library, so every time there was a break I would go to the library to read this book. Unfortunately, the camp came to a close before I finished the book. In 1996 there was a huge fire in Questa and many of the buildings at Lama Foundation burned to the ground, therefore they did not have any camps in 1997 due to the clean up efforts. I returned to Lama in 1998 the first retreat season after the fire and I went straight to the library and started reading Women of Wisdom again. I really loved this book! I couldn't put it down. I had so much respect for the author Tsultrim Allione, and I assumed she lived in Italy, or Nepal, or India
How I Encountered Tsultrim Allione
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Selected Tsultrim Allione Quote
You can now benefit from Tsultrim's extensive research finding the stories of women in Buddhism in her book Women of Wisdom
Spotlight Tsultrim CDs
The Mandala of the Enlightened Feminine
Amazon Price: $44.96 (as of 07/26/2008)
This CD set is absolutely wonderful! It explains soooo much about Vajrayana and the mandala. Well worth owning!
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Women of Wisdom
Women of Wisdom
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In 2007, Allione was recognized in Tibet as an emanation of Machig Lapdron. So, Women of Wisdom contains a book within a book of books, and tracings of a particular life within a much larger lifestream-- teachings brought forward for our times that encourage us to not be afraid! to dive directly into those things we fear most! and to join with each other in the quest to discover our own truths, and express them by art and ritual and service and fully experiencing the life of the body. This is a book to take to bed with you, to let seep into your dreams. Read it, and take heart.
Cutting Through Fear - Audio CD
Cutting Through Fear
Amazon Price: $16.47 (as of 07/26/2008)
Based on the traditional Tibetan practice of Chod (literally "to cut"), this method was developed by a legendary Tibetan yogini, Machig Lapdron, almost 1,000 years ago and is practiced within all schools of Tibetan Buddhism. To this day, Chud is still used in Tibet to treat mental and physical illness and as a path to awareness. On Cutting through Fear, Tsultrim Allione shares the fascinating history of this practice, and interprets it especially for Western students of meditation and psychology. Drawing from root visualization practices, Tsultrim Allione shares a four-step process that can help you meet and release what the ancient Tibetans called "demons" - the fears, obsessions, illnesses, and hopes that can be faced and dissolved with this powerful meditation technique. We all encounter the demons of addiction, compulsion, anger, and other difficult emotions, too often as a daily event. Now we have a rare and useful tool to stop struggling against them, and instead liberate them, with Cutting through Fear.
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YouTube vids Regarding Tsultrim
Carre Otis on finding buddhism and mentors.
Carre Otis talks about how buddhism and having women mentors at age 18 saved her from a life fueled by anger.
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- Tara Mandala Retreat Center
- This is the website for Tsultrim Allione's retreat center in Pagosa Springs, CO.
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama
- This is the Dalai Lama's home page.
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- This site sells tickets to HH the Karmapa's talks in the US, coming soon!
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- Message to the Chinese from HHDL
- Go here to read an open letter from His Holiness to the People of China Dated March 2008
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