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.
View Posts
Venerable Thubten Chodron Cultivating emotional balance
Focusing on our own problems only makes them worse. Expanding our view to consider other…
View Post
Gender equality/inequality in Buddhism
How our own minds create our experience of gender equality. Addressing "problematic" text, situation of…
View Post
Adjusting to monastic life
Important elements in forming a community: how to cultivate an attitude of transparency and how…
View Post
Instruction videos on prostrations
Instructions and demonstration on how to make prostrations.
View Post
Taking the practice home
What to do after completing the workshop and a dedication of merit including a recitation…
View Post
Dharma advice
Where to go when we have a Dharma questions and some practical practice advice.
View Post
Apologies and forgiveness
What it means to apologize and how to make and receive apologies, what forgiveness is…
View Post
A discussion about anger
Considering our patterns of anger, what we get angry about and why. Are we being…
View Post
The Tara practice
Brief instructions and a guided meditation on Green Tara incorporating the four opponent powers.
View Post
A weekend with Tara
A workshop conducted at Tai Pei Buddhist Center in Singapore in 2006. Describing who Tara…
View Post
A peaceful heart in a complex world
Changing relationships can begin with kindness in action, speech and thought.
View Post
Chapter 2: Verses 40-65
The importance of keeping an awareness of death in order to focus our minds, consider…
View Post