03/18/2026
Like the garland itself, Pamo Malas is a story that has been carried or passed down through a thread of continuity.
Pamo Malas carries a lineage that began with Jim and Harriet Campbell, my grandparents, who started meditating and studying Buddhism in 1972 and became students of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in Boulder in 1975. In 2004, they purchased a small mala-making business in Crestone, Colorado, originally founded to support the building of the Tashi Gomang Stupa. At that time, it was known as Drukmo Malas, and for over 20 years crafted each mala by hand with high-quality materials, blessing them with intention for practitioners around the world.
In 2024, I inherited the business and with it took on the new form that is now Pamo Malas.
As a third-generation Vajrayana practitioner from both lines of my family, this work feels less like a business and more like a natural expression and devotion to practice, to my teachers, and to my family that has paved the way. I've woven in my own studies of Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan Medicine), my training in healing and ritual practice, and my history of jewelry design. Pamo Malas is not simply a business it is my way of extending reverence to dharma and this lineage through sacred objects.
Every mala we make is handcrafted, blessed with mantra, and handled with the same founding principle that has been carried through three generations.