Skymind: The Radical Path of Open Awareness

CHARLOTTE ROTTERDAM, MTS, and PIETER OOSTHUIZEN began their Dharmic paths over 25 years ago--Pieter through meeting the Dalai Lama in Dharmsala and later receiving teachings from Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche in South Africa; Charlotte through her graduate studies at Harvard Divinity School. They met while directing Naropa University's School for Extended Studies in the late '90s. As program director, Charlotte invited numerous Buddhist teachers such as Lama Tharchin Rinpoche, Ponlop Rinpoche, Namkha Drimed Rinpoche, John Daido Loori Roshi, and Traleg Rinpoche. They later served as executive codirectors of Tara Mandala, the retreat center founded by Lama Tsultrim Allione, and are now senior teachers in that lineage. In 2016, Charlotte received the title Magyu Lopön from Lama Tsultrim, officially designating her lead teacher and lineage holder of the Mother Lineage at Tara Mandala. They've offered retreats at Tara Mandala and internationally since 2005.