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You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today my guest is Lama Sultram Alione.

Lama Sultram is an author, an internationally known Buddhist teacher, and the founder of Tara Mandela,

a retreat center in Pagossa Springs, Colorado.

Lama Siltram was the first American woman to be ordained as a Tibetan nun by His Holiness, the 16th Karmapa.

At the age of 26, after four years as a nun, she returned her monastic vows, married and raised three children.

Which sounds true, Lama Sultram has created several audio programs, including The Mandala of the Enlightened Feminine,

and cutting through fear, where she shares a process that can help meet and release what the ancient Tibetans called demons,

fears and other unhelpful emotions and obsessions.

In this episode, of Insights at the Edge, Lama Sultram and I spoke about the sacred feminine within Buddhism

and how to understand the sacred feminine without creating

duality. We talked about the 11th century Tibetan yogini and originator of the practice of

Chud, Machiglodram, and about Lama Sultram's sudden loss of her husband David just a couple of years ago,

and her journey through grief and what she's learned through the process.

Here's my conversation with Mama Sultram Alioni.

Lama Sultranran to begin with, I want to help orient our listeners a bit to who you are as a llama and the strand of teaching that you're bringing into the world.

And I know from your history that early in your life, in your 20s,

you had a passionate interest in discovering the women teachers within Tibetan Buddhism.

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