Chapters 1-10: Review

36 Course 3: Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions

Part of a series of two-week courses given at Sravasti Abbey based on the book Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Venerable Thubten Chodron.

  • How the book came about
  • Review of the first two courses
  • Questions and answers
    • Whether the Pali tradition asserts that the Buddha is omniscient
    • More about the spread of Buddhism to the Middle East
    • How emptiness relates to selflessness
  • Introduction to the four immeasurables

Venerable Thubten Chodron

Venerable Chodron emphasizes the practical application of Buddha’s teachings in our daily lives and is especially skilled at explaining them in ways easily understood and practiced by Westerners. She is well known for her warm, humorous, and lucid teachings. She was ordained as a Buddhist nun in 1977 by Kyabje Ling Rinpoche in Dharamsala, India, and in 1986 she received bhikshuni (full) ordination in Taiwan. Read her full bio.

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