Please join us in warmly welcoming Lopön Chandra Easton to the Living/Dying Project Speaker Series for an inspiring conversation with RamDev Dale Borglum, PhD, on Saturday, May 31 at 10:00 AM PST.
Chandra will introduce us to Tara mantra practice for working with fear and share illuminating teachings on several of the twenty-one Taras—exploring what they represent and how they can guide us toward navigating life’s challenges and paths to liberation.
“Tara, the beloved Buddhist goddess and female buddha of compassion, manifests in twenty-one different forms—some peaceful, others fierce—with different enlightened qualities that can help us through the joys and hardships we experience. Just as a ray of light hitting a prism creates a rainbow, when Tara’s enlightened intent illuminates the prism of your own mind, it manifests as a myriad of colors, sounds, symbols, and moods that reveal her compassionate power. The twenty-one Taras’ iconography, mantras, and enlightened activities are expressions of different enlightened qualities all radiating from the same source—the Great Mother, the womb of totality.” – Excerpt from Embodying Tara: Twenty-One Manifestations to Awaken Your Innate Wisdom by Chandra Easton
Chandra Easton is a Dharma teacher, author, and translator of Tibetan Buddhist texts. She has taught Buddhism and Hatha Yoga since 2001. She studied Buddhism and Tibetan language in Dharamsala, India, and at UCSB’s religious studies department. During her studies, she co-translated Sublime Dharma: A Compilation of Two Texts on the Great Perfection (Vimala Publishing, 2012) with B. Alan Wallace. Seeking to bring forth the voice of the empowered feminine in Buddhism, Chandra regularly leads retreats and classes for various organizations, develops programs and curricula for Tara Mandala Retreat Center, founded by Lama Tsultrim Allione, and teaches Dharma nationally and internationally. She co-founded the 21 Taras Collective with Nina Rao and Genevieve Walker, to record music for the twenty-one Taras mantras found in her new book, Embodying Tara: Twenty-One Manifestations to Awaken Your Innate Wisdom (Shambhala Publishing, 2023).
Register to attend live and to receive the replay which will be sent 48-72 hours after the live event streams. This event is free for LDP volunteers and clients. Please email [email protected] to be added to the roster.
