Tsultrim Allione

Lama Tsultrim Allione ( born October 3, 1947 in Maine, United States, real name: Joan Rousmaniere Ewing ) is a Buddhist writer and teacher.

Life

Your first India and Nepal Tourism undertook Allione 1967. After two years she returned to be ordained in 1970 as one of the first American women. She received her inauguration by the 16th Karmapa of the Karma Kagyu school. This gave her the spiritual name Karma Tsultrim Chodron. Tsultrim Allione was part of the American beat generation, it was especially in conjunction with Allen Ginsberg, Ram Dass and Chogyam Trungpa. Your vows she returned after four years to start a family. However, she continued her practice and her studies, in 1984 in the book Women of Wisdom ( German Tibet as women, 1986) resulted. In this book, she uncovered the tradition enlightened women in Tibetan Buddhism. A Tibetan yogini from the 11-12. Century, Machig Labdrön, thus became the central leading figure in its further activity. Based on the Chod practice of Machig Labdrön Allione developed the concept of feeding the demons, a technique in which one's own dark side you stand and not these fights, but recognizes the need behind it and breastfeed. In 1993 she founded with her husband David Petit Buddhist meditation center Tara Mandala in Southern Colorado in the U.S., where the traditional in the line of Machig Labdrön meditation practices are preserved and passed on in collaboration with Tibetan clergy.

Works

• Allione, Tsultrim (1986 ): Tibet as women. Munich: Dianus - Trikont.
• Allione, Tsultrim (2009): Giving the devils food. Buddhist techniques for conflict resolution. With a foreword by Jack Kornfield. Munich: Goldmann.