Green Tara Retreat

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About the Venue and Teachers

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  Tara Mandala

  Pagosa Springs Colorado

  Tara Mandala is an international Vajrayana Buddhist community with a home base 7,500 feet above sea level in Pagosa Springs, CO. It is guided by Lama Tsultrim Allione, author of Women of Wisdom and Feeding Your Demons. Lama Tsultrim has studied Tibetan Buddhism under a number of traditional teachers for more than 45 years.In a chaotic and stressful world, Tara Mandala retreat center offers refuge, renewal and traditional Buddhist training through their residential Living Dharma Volunteer program as well as group and solo retreats. Today, opportunities for quiet contemplation are rare, and places dedicated to long-term retreat are even more scarce. Bordered by the San Juan National Forest and Southern Ute Tribal Land, the retreat center is on 700 acres of rolling hills and meadows adorned with many varieties of wild flowers, ponds, and forests. The land itself is a mandala with a stunning peak in the middle surrounded by four valleys. Retreat cabins are scattered across the landscape, and at its heart is the extraordinary three-story mandala Tara temple.
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  Pieter Oosthuizen

  Pieter Oosthuizen is a teacher and entrepreneur and a long-time student of Tibetan Buddhism. He has been teaching various practices and retreats in Lama Tsultrim’s lineage in the US and abroad since 2006, offering a blend of incisive insight and genuine compassion. He co-leads the Boulder Tara Mandala Sangha with his wife, Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam. In the past, Pieter has brought innovative leadership to institutions such as Naropa University, where he served as Assistant VP for Academic Affairs, and Tara Mandala, where he served as executive co-director and then as a Trustee. His years of leadership have been dedicated to creating healthy, creative and effective organizations, built on cultures of openness, authenticity and honest communication. He is the founder and current CEO of Celsus Bio-Intelligence, a skin care company. Pieter received his Law degree in his native South Africa. www.skymind.us. Authorized to teach: Intro to Meditation Feeding Your Demons Kapala Training Level 1 Prajna Paramita Sutrayana Retreat Chod
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  Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam

  Lopön Charlotte Z. Rotterdam has studied Tibetan Buddhism for the last 20 years, was authorized to teach by Lama Tsultrim Allione in 2006, and received the title of Magyu Lopön, lead teacher of Magyu: The Mother Lineage at Tara Mandala from Lama Tsultrim in 2016. Charlotte teaches in the US and abroad, often in partnership with her husband Pieter Oosthuizen, and co-leads the Boulder Tara Mandala Sangha. Charlotte received a Masters in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School. She served as executive co-director of Tara Mandala for four years, and thereafter as Trustee and Board President. Currently she is an Instructor and Director of the Center for the Advancement of Contemplative Education at Naropa University. The mother of two boys, she has published essays on the intersection of spiritual practice and motherhood in Mandala and in an anthology, Fearless Nest. Her and Pieter’s blog offers reflections on the intersection of Dharma and modern daily life: www.skymind.us.

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