Tsultrim Allione, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Tsultrim Allione

Tibetan Buddhism writer and teacher

Date of Birth: 03-Oct-1947

Place of Birth: Maine, United States

Profession: writer, teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Tsultrim Allione

  • Lama Tsultrim Allione is an author and teacher who has studied in Tibetan Buddhism's Karma Kagyu lineage.
  • She was born in 1947 in Maine under the name Joan Rousmanière Ewing.
  • She first travelled to India and Nepal in 1967, returned in 1969 and January 1970 she became one of the first American women to be ordained as a Tibetan nun.
  • She was given her vows by the Karmapa, from the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, who gave her the name Karma Tsultrim Chodron.
  • Allione gave back her monastic vows four years later and married.
  • She has given birth to four children, one of whom died from sudden infant death syndrome.
  • Tsultrim Allione continued her studies and Buddhist practice, which led to the 1984 publication of her book Women of Wisdom, a collection of the namtar of six Tibetan Buddhist yogini such as Machig Labdrön (founder of the Chöd practice), Ayu Khandro Dorje Paldron (1839–1953), Nangsa Obum, Jomo Menmo (1248–1283), Machig Ongjo and Drenchen Rema.
  • This is the work she's most well known for and it has since been translated from English into several foreign languages and expanded in a revised 2nd edition.
  • In 1993, with her husband, David Petit, Tsultrim Allione founded Tara Mandala, a retreat center in southern Colorado, in the United States.
  • As well as offering retreats at Tara Mandala, Allione regularly teaches in the United States and in Europe. In 2008 Lama Tsultrim Allione's book Feeding Your Demons was published, an approach based on the Chöd lineage of Machig Labdrön that Allione has practiced since 1973.
  • Allione opens chapter five of the book by quoting Carl Jung as saying "One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious."Mark Epstein has described her work as "a book that Carl Jung could only have dreamed of writing." Allione claims that the "process of feeding our demons is a method for bringing our shadow into consciousness and accessing the treasures it holds rather than repressing it."In 2009, Lama Tsultrim Allione was selected by an esteemed committee of scholars and practitioners to receive the international “Outstanding Woman in Buddhism” Award given in Bangkok, Thailand.
  • Lama Tsultrim is enjoying being the grandmother of six and has completed her new book, Wisdom Rising: Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine, published by Simon and Schuster in May 2018.
  • At the same time, Lama Tsultrim continues to guide Tara Mandala and thousands of students around the world.
  • Her writings and teachings come from her sublime Tibetan lamas as well as her experience as a Western woman and mother.
  • She is known for her ability to translate the wisdom of the ancient Tibetan Buddhist tradition into clear teachings that are relatable and relevant to Western audiences.

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