Tsultrim allione biography examples
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Women of Wisdom
"Las mujeres, sujetas a sistemas patriarcales, han seguido demostrando clause sus necesidades espirituales y su capacidad es discolour grande como la absurdity los hombres, quizás incluso mayor, harm e
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(262 pp., Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984.)
If the mind has no sexual characteristics why contrast “women’s spirituality” with that of men? I’ve resisted making this comparison for years, debunking the concept of women’s spirituality as “narrow-minded” or “troublemaking.” For many, including myself, it’s painful to even consider the value of taking a clear and discerning look; sometimes I fear I might lose the sense of unity that springs from dharma practice, by overemphasizing the polarity of women versus men.
Throughout most of my life I viewed females and males in opposition: mother versus father; little girls in mommies’ heels versus little boys armed with paper clips, rubber bands and water pistols; bobbysocked teenage girls attracted to and afraid of the strange male beings with faded jeans and Marlboro smiles; ’60s women in the kitchen, cooking and writing flyers, versus the men in the living room “planning” the “revolution”; ’70s women, newly feminist, confronting men in the kitchen, in the streets and everywhere else. What a relief to begin a practice of discovering the mind—beyond oppositions, absolute and all inclusive!
In Women of Wisdom, a collectio
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Lama Tsultrim Allione’s Biography
On Vashon Island, Lama Tsultrim and her husband began to study with the great, all-knowing, Dezhung Rinpoche. It was during this period that she gave birth to her two daughters Sherab (1974) and Aloka (1975). The family then moved to Boulder to study with Trungpa Rinpoche. Here she separated from her husband and became one of the first meditation instructors trained by Trungpa Rinpoche. She began to teach at Naropa Institute (now Naropa University) and worked for Trungpa Rinpoche’s organization, at that time called, Vajradhatu (now Shambhala International). She was in the first group to receive the Vajra Varahi Empowerment from Trungpa Rinpoche and was also asked to become a Vajrayana Meditation instructor.
In 1978, while working at Naropa, Lama Tsultrim met Italian documentary filmmaker, Costanzo Allione, who became her second husband. She moved to Italy with her two daughters, where she met Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche with whom she studied and practiced Dzogchen teachings for the next eighteen years. In 1980, she gave birth to twins: a boy, Costanzo, and a girl, Chiara. When they were two and a half months old, Chiara died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
Chiara’s passing triggered a need to find the life stories of women t