Embodying Tara

​Embodying Tara: Twenty-One Manifestations to Awaken Your Innate Wisdom

​Talk and Book Signing with Lopön Chandra Easton

​Come celebrate the publication of Embodying Tara: Twenty-One Manifestations to Awaken Your Innate Wisdom by Chandra Easton. Many know of the female Buddha Tara, but few know of her twenty-one aspects. Come hear stories and anecdotes from the book, experience a guided meditation on the 21 Taras, and get your book signed!

​Join us in person at 2929 24th street
OR online via Zoom: http://bit.ly/sfdharma (password: 108108)
or 301-715-8592 to join by phone. Meeting ID: 545 039 806

​NOTE: ​Part of this event will feature live music. We do not know what the quality of the music will be for those on Zoom. We urge you to come in person if you can! (Plus, you will get to meet Chandra and get your book signed!)

​Suggested donation $5 - $50 - all proceeds support SFDC and the Ani Choying Drolma’s Ani Foundation which serves women, children, the underprivileged and dispossessed in Nepal by providing education, health care, food and shelter to those in need. Ani Choying Drolma is the real life second Tara, Vajra Sarasvati, in Chandra’s book. 

​Books will be on sale at the event or you can pre-order your book today with a 30% discount using code ETARA30 at www.shambhala.com.

​We’ll have time for tea and mingling with the community as well. All are welcome.

​About Embodying Tara

​Realize the power of Tara, the Buddhist goddess of compassion, within yourself in this modern guide to her 21 forms.

Explore down-to-earth meditations and stories of real women who embody Tara's qualities.

Tara, the Buddhist goddess of compassion, can manifest within all of us. In this illustrated introduction to Tara's twenty-one forms, respected female Buddhist teacher and practitioner Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton shows you how to invite Tara’s awakened energy to come alive in yourself through:

• ​insight into core Buddhist concepts and teachings;

• ​meditations;

• ​mantra recitations; and

• ​journal exercises.

​The relatable stories from Buddhist history and the author’s personal reflections will give you the tools to live a more compassionate life, befriend your fears, and overcome everyday challenges.

Find out how important women and movements in modern history have achieved this through their own embodiment of Tara's enlightened activities. The stories of Jane Goodall, Nawal El Saadawi, Oprah Winfrey, Vandana Shiva, Black Lives Matter, Me Too, and others will inspire you to bring these aspects of Tara into the world in creative and socially conscious ways for the benefit of all.

​Praise

​Chandra Easton has not only opened awareness of the diverse aspects and activities of the twenty-one manifestations of the sacred feminine in her brilliant book but brought them into the contemporary context by connecting each with a related woman and her multiple aspects. Though many are aware of Tara as the embodiment of wisdom and compassion in a female form, few know about the twenty-one Taras. This book brings them all alive, making them an accessible and inspiring presence in our lives. —Lama Tsultrim Allione, author of Wisdom Rising and founder of Tara Mandala

​A treasure teaching, a vast and exquisite gift to our stressful lives out of balance. Chandra Easton challenges and encourages us to count our blessings and gives us a tried-and-true means to do so, awakening us to the freedom we enjoy through all our lives and deaths, and guiding us to recognize the countless ‘cool heroines,’ or ‘she-roes,’ the saving women everywhere that never give us up and help activate our own natural goodness no matter what! —Robert Thurman, professor emeritus, translator, and author

​Connecting to Mother Tara is one of the most powerful ways to bring peace and harmony to individuals and the world. —from the foreword by Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche, coauthor of Tara’s Enlightened Activity

​Lopön Chandra offers the most accessible, in-depth, inspiring, step-by-step guide to embodying the twenty-one emanations of the great goddess, Tara, for the benefit of compassion in action for countless generations. A treasure and a classic is born from her living lineage with Lama Tsultrim and Tara Mandala as a companion for all on the path. Emaho! —Shiva Rea, yogini and author of Tending the Heart Fire

​I shall work for the benefit of sentient beings in a woman’s body.’ And here she is, Tara the savioress, a bodhisattva or a buddha—to me the essence of the divine mother or goddess we invoke in my Indian tradition by calling her forth through visualization, meditation, and mantra. Chandra’s lyrical voice shares the history of Tibetan Buddhism and Tara, provides specific practice instructions, and illuminates Tara’s qualities in modern-day women and the enlightened activities of communities around the world. With the blessings of her teachers and her long-standing deep sadhana, Chandra’s book offers us a clear guide and inspiration to whirl in the mandala of Tara, so we may enter her mindstream ourselves. —Nina Rao, chantress and seeker

​How wonderful that at this time in the world, the goddess Tara is revealing her ever-deepening presence in the form of this book. Now we have in the most accessible yet deeply moving way all we need to find our way home to our compassionate mother, Arya Tara.—Krishna Das, American chant leader and Grammy nominee