Tsultrim Allione

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Lama Tsültrim Allione (born October 3, 1947 in Maine , United States ; real name: Joan Rousmanière Ewing) is a Buddhist author and teacher .

Life

Allione made her first trips to India and Nepal in 1967. After two years she returned to be ordained in 1970 as one of the first American women . She received her initiation from the 16th Karmapa of the Karma Kagyu School . He gave her the spiritual name Karma Tsültrim Chödrön. Tsültrim Allione was part of the American Beat Generation , she was particularly in connection with Allen Ginsberg , Ram Dass and Chögyam Trungpa . She returned her vows after four years to raise a family. However, she continued her practice and studies, which in 1984 resulted in the book Women of Wisdom (German Tibetan wise women , 1986). In this book she exposed the awakened woman tradition in Tibetan Buddhism . A Tibetan yogini from the 11th / 12th centuries Century, Machig Labdrön , thus became the central figure of her further work. Building on the Chöd developed by Machig Labdrön Allione the concept of feeding the demon , a technique in which you look at the own downsides recognizes is and they do not fight, but behind it the need and breastfeeding. In 1993 she and her husband David Petit founded the Buddhist meditation center Tara Mandala in southern Colorado in the USA, where the meditation practices handed down in the lineage of Machig Labdrön are preserved and passed on in cooperation with Tibetan clergy.

Works

  • Allione, Tsültrim (1986): Tibet's wise women. Munich: Dianus-Trikont.
  • Allione, Tsültrim (2009): Giving food to demons. Buddhist techniques for conflict resolution. With a foreword by Jack Kornfield . Munich: Goldmann.
  • Allione, Tsültrim (2018): The 5 Dakinis. The heavenly powers of Buddhism. Munich: Arkana

literature

  • Barbara Staemmler: How demons become wisdom. Introduction to “demon work” and connections to Gestalt therapy . In: Gestalt therapy . 1/2011, 2011, pp. 25-34.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On a photo of a friend of Allen Ginsberg you can see all three: http://www.allenginsberg.org/index.php?page=ram-dass-tsultrim-allione-chogyam-trungpa-rinpoche
  2. ↑ Staemmler (2011) shows the similarities and differences to gestalt therapy .
  3. ↑ In the 2012 documentary "When the Iron Bird Flies: Tibetan Buddhism Arrives in the West" ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2445488/ ) Allione appears alongside Richard Gere , Sharon Salzberg , Matthieu Ricard and others .
personal data
SURNAME Allione, Tsultrim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Allione, Lama Tsültrim (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Buddhist author and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Maine , United States