Tsultrim Allione and Tara Mandala
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Tsultrim Allione at A Glance
Tsultrim Allione has a masters in Buddhism/Womens 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. Tsultrim founded Tara Mandala in 1993 and she is now the resident teacher there. She is the author of Women of Wisdom see below, 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
Later that fall I attended my first retreat at Tara Mandala, a Buddhist Meditation and Yoga Retreat Center located on 700 wild and beautiful acres south of Pagosa Springs, CO.and I finally met Tsultrim Allione.
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"My favorite thing to study was the biographies of the great teachers of Tibetan Buddhism. Since I was trying to follow the same path I found the stories of their struggles and the ensuing realizations that they gained tremendously helpful and inspiring. I found tidbits of stories of women here and there and I reread them many times, but there was nothing very substantial. Now it is obvious to me why I longed for stories of women and amazing that I did not consciously wonder about the lack of women's biographies. I guess it was part of my conditioning to accept that all the important saints were men, but I think that unconsciously the roots of the research for this book began at that time. "You can now benefit from Tsultrim's extensive research finding the stories of women in Buddhism in her book Women of Wisdom(see below to order it)
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Mandala of the Enlightened Feminine: Awaken the Wisdom of the Five Dakinis
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This CD set is absolutely wonderful! It explains soooo much about Vajrayana Buddhism, the role of the dakini and the mandala.
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Feeding Your Demons
Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict
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Wonderful book, very transformative, April 9, 2008
By B. Lee-Herbert
I found this book to be incredibly powerful and transformative. A captivating and smooth read with a great message. The technique outlined in the book is simple yet profound, and was really effective for me. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in shedding old patterns and becoming happier in general (and who isn't!).
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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.
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Tsultrim Allione Receives the Outstanding Woman in Buddhism Award for 2009
Lama Tsultrim Allione has been selected by the Outstanding Women in Buddhism Committee's panel of distinguished Buddhist scholars and practitioners as an Outstanding Woman in Buddhism 2009. She will be honored at The Outstanding Women in Buddhism Awards Ceremony held in honor of the United Nations' International Women's Day. The Ceremony will be held at the Association for the Promotion for the Status of Women in Don Muang, Bangkok , Thailand on Friday, March 6th, 2009.
Cutting Through Fear - Audio CD
Cutting Through Fear
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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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poddys
Aug 23, 2009 @ 7:40 am | delete
- Very nice lens, and I love learning more about Buddhism and your works. 5*****
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papawu
Aug 22, 2009 @ 8:13 pm | delete
- That's truly amazing! To be a westerner and a woman and be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun! That in itself is highly impressive without thought to everything else she has accomplished. A fantastic read on a fantastic human being! =)
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