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Lama Tsultrim Allione is an author and teacher who has studied in the Tibetan Buddhist lineage. She was born in 1947 in Maine, in the United States, and given the name Joan Rousmanière Ewing. She first travelled to India and Nepal in 1967, returned in 1969 and in 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 as Machig Lapdron (founder of the Chod practice), Ayu Khadro, Dorje Paldron (1839—1953), Nangsa Obum, Jomo Memo (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 2007 Lama Tsultrim Allione was recognised as an emanation of Machig Labdron.

In 2008 Lama Tsultrim Allione's book Feeding Your Demons was published, an approach based on the Chod lineage of Machig Labdron 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."

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Total Books: 13
Feeding Your Demons Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict
2009 - Feeding Your Demons Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781848501737
ISBN-10: 1848501730
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Feeding Your Demons Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict
2008 - Feeding Your Demons Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780316013130
ISBN-10: 0316013137
Genres: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Religion & Spirituality
  • Currently 2.8/5 Stars.
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Women of Wisdom
2000 - Women of Wisdom (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781559391412
ISBN-10: 1559391413
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Religion & Spirituality
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Cutting Through Fear
Women of Wisdom
1988 - Women of Wisdom [Arkana S.] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780140190724
ISBN-10: 0140190724
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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Women of Wisdom
Women of Wisdom (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780710202406
ISBN-10: 0710202407
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Religion & Spirituality
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The Mandala of the Enlightened Feminine
Cutting Through Fear
Women of Wisdom
Women of Wisdom (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781850630449
ISBN-10: 1850630445
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction
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Mujeres de Sabiduria
Mujeres De Sabiduria [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9788487403019
ISBN-10: 8487403018
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction
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Bevrijd je demonen Het oplossen van innerlijke conflicten
Bevrijd Je Demonen Het Oplossen Van Innerlijke Conflicten (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9789021569765
ISBN-10: 9021569760
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