Tara Mandala International Buddhist Community

10/28/2026

Celebrating Our Newest Mandala Method Certified Facilitators!

We are delighted to celebrate our newest Mandala Method Certified Facilitators, who completed their certification training and Capstone Retreat in September!

Please join us in congratulating our new Mandala Method Facilitators: Oceana, Martina, Amandas, Oshikan, Tjaša, Gwen, Jenny, Esi, Marcella, Kathleen, Georgia, Anita, Akasha, and Lasha. Congratulations, all of you!

Rooted in Tibetan Buddhist teachings on the mandala principle and the five buddha families, the Mandala Method brings together meditation, visualization, sound, art, and movement to support psychological wholeness and transformation. Developed by Lama Tsultrim Allione, these practices have long been taught at Tara Mandala and are explored in her book Wisdom Rising: Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine.

The Mandala Method Certification Program trains facilitators to guide individuals through these transformative practices in one-on-one sessions. Through 250 hours of personal and partner practice, in-depth study of the mandala teachings, case studies, and experiential learning, participants deepen their understanding of the mandala and develop the skills to guide others through these transformative practices within a trauma-sensitive framework.

Our community now includes more than 30 Certified Facilitators, with another 12 candidates preparing to complete their training in November!

Find out more https://www.taramandala.org/learn/mandala-method-training-program/

We are so grateful for this growing community and excited to see the Mandala Method continue to blossom and reach more people around the world!

10/27/2026

Holding Our Pagosa Springs Community in Our Hearts 💚

In the wake of the devastating flooding in Pagosa Springs and the surrounding areas, our hearts are with everyone affected.

We hold in our prayers those who have been displaced, whose homes and livelihoods have been impacted, and all those facing uncertainty in the days ahead. We offer our deepest gratitude to the emergency responders, volunteers, and neighbours working tirelessly to care for one another.

At Tara Mandala, we are reminded of the strength of community and the importance of compassion in times of difficulty. May all those affected find safety, support, and the strength to recover.
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10/26/2026

Lama Live! Replay: Demons in Love with Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen.

“We might formally articulate this as a vision of relationship as spiritual practice, relationship as a spiritual path.
And what is a spiritual path? It is a commitment to wake up. A commitment to wake up to our wholeness, to truth, to reality, to the nature of all things. Dharma means the nature of all things. So what the Buddha taught was: how do we awaken to the nature of all things?
Within the context of relationship, if we want to say that relationship is a spiritual path, how does this particular configuration of close, and perhaps intimate, relationship become itself a pathway through which we wake up?”
~ Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam

In yesterday’s Lama Live!, Dorje Lopön Charlotte and Lopön Pieter shared a heartfelt conversation on relationship as a path of awakening. Drawing on their own partnership and many years of practice together, they explored how our closest relationships act as mirrors, revealing the reactive patterns, wounds, and unmet needs we carry, and how love itself can become the container for waking up.

The session closes with a guided Feeding Your Demons® practice, so you’re warmly invited to watch with a little quiet time set aside.

▶️ Watch the replay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN8cdr_jDvQ

Continue the Journey: Demons in Love
How to Transform Relationship Challenges into Wisdom
With Lama Tsultrim Allione, Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam, and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen
Sundays, November 8 and 22, 2026
Register: hubs.la/Q04yjyVv0

10/25/2026

Join Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen for this special Lama Live! exploring how the challenges we encounter in relationships can become opportunities for greater awareness, compassion, and wisdom.

Our relationships are among our greatest teachers. They bring joy, intimacy, and connection, while also revealing our deepest fears, unmet needs, and habitual patterns. Drawing on the Feeding Your Demons® practice, this conversation invites us to meet difficult emotions and recurring relational challenges with curiosity and compassion, transforming obstacles into opportunities for insight and understanding.

This session offers a glimpse into their upcoming two-session online programme, Demons in Love, where they will be teaching alongside Lama Tsultrim Allione on November 8 and 22, exploring how we can bring greater awareness and compassion into our relationships.

Join us live this Sunday, October 25 at 9am PDT on YouTube and Facebook. All are welcome 🙏

10/24/2026

Coming up on Monday, October 26, we observe the Full Moon and Amitabha Buddha Day, a monthly opportunity to deepen our practice and reconnect with the qualities of wisdom and compassion.

Amitabha, the Buddha of Infinite Light, embodies boundless compassion and the luminous wisdom of awakening.

Through meditation, visualization, mantra recitation, and aspiration prayers, Amitabha practice invites us to cultivate compassion, recognize our awakened potential, and dedicate our efforts to the liberation of all beings.

As we approach this sacred day, we invite you to make space for practice and reflection, allowing the light of awareness and compassion to illuminate your heart and extend into the world.

May all beings experience peace, freedom from suffering, and the boundless light of awakening.

10/23/2026

How can the Buddha’s teachings help us navigate the challenges of our modern world?

The Buddhist path offers profound guidance for working with both the personal and collective challenges we face, showing us how suffering can become a doorway to understanding, compassion, and liberation.

At the heart of these teachings is the Noble Eightfold Path, the Buddha’s practical guidance for living with greater wisdom, ethical awareness, and clarity.

In What the Buddha Taught, the second module of Heart of Buddhism: A Year of Study & Practice, Amelia Hall, PhD, invites us to explore these foundational teachings with fresh eyes.

We are especially honoured to welcome Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo as a special guest, bringing her wisdom and decades of dedicated Buddhist practice to this exploration of the path.

Together, we will consider how the Buddha’s teachings speak to our lives today, helping us meet the difficulties of our time with greater awareness and become a light in the darkness.

Begins October 30 | Online

Explore the Buddhist path with us: https://hubs.la/Q04tKN-h0

10/22/2026

Demons in Love: Transforming Relationship Challenges into Wisdom

Our closest relationships can be our greatest teachers.

After 26 years of marriage, Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen know how intimate relationships can reveal our deepest strengths, as well as the fears and habitual patterns we often struggle to recognise.

Through Feeding Your Demons®, the practice developed by Lama Tsultrim Allione, we learn to meet these challenges with curiosity and compassion, transforming reactive patterns into opportunities for wisdom and connection.

Join Charlotte and Pieter this Sunday, October 25, for a special Lama Live! conversation offering a taste of these teachings.

Then deepen your exploration in Demons in Love, a two-day online course with Lama Tsultrim Allione, Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam, and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen.

November 8 & 22, 2026 | Online
No prerequisites. All are welcome.

Learn more here: https://hubs.la/Q04yjyVv0

10/21/2026

What does it mean to restore our vitality and reconnect with the life force that sustains us?

Join Lama Tsultrim Allione for a rare and precious longevity practice transmission she received in a cave of Machig Labdrön’s, the great 11th-century Tibetan yogini, while in Bhutan in 2017.

Through mantra, visualization, and subtle breath, this practice restores lha (Tib.), the vital essence that can grow faint through hardship, and strengthens the body’s own life force.

Online, December 5 to 6, 2026. Prior sadhana and Vajrayana experience recommended. Early bird tuition ends this Friday, October 23.

Register here: https://hubs.la/Q04BMZs40

10/20/2026

As autumn settles over Tara Mandala, the changing light brings a quiet beauty to the land.

Nestled in the mountains of southwestern Colorado, the temple glows against the deepening evening sky, surrounded by forests and the vast openness of the landscape.

Each season brings its own invitation to pause, to listen, and to reconnect with the natural world. As the days grow shorter and the land prepares for winter, we are reminded of the cycles of change and impermanence that are at the heart of Buddhist practice.

For those who have walked these paths, practised in the temple, or simply held Tara Mandala in their hearts from afar, this sacred land remains a place of connection, reflection, and refuge.

May this glimpse of the land bring a moment of stillness to your day. 🍂

10/19/2026

Join us Sunday, October 25 at 9am PDT for Lama Live! with Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen, hosted by Dr Jean Carroll.

In this special session, they will explore Demons in Love: How to Transform Relationship Challenges into Wisdom, revealing how our closest relationships can become opportunities for awareness, compassion, and transformation.

Our relationships bring joy, intimacy, and connection, while also revealing our deepest fears, unmet needs, and habitual patterns. Drawing on the Feeding Your Demons® practice, this conversation invites us to meet difficult emotions with curiosity and compassion, transforming relational challenges into opportunities for insight and understanding.

This Lama Live! offers a glimpse into their upcoming online programme, Demons in Love, with Lama Tsultrim Allione on November 8 and 22.

🕰️ A note for our international sangha: European clocks change on October 25, while US clocks change on November 1. This Sunday's Lama Live! will take place at:
9am PDT | 10am MDT | 12pm EDT | 4pm GMT (UK) | 5pm CET (Europe)

Join us live on YouTube and Facebook. All are welcome 🙏
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