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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Venerable Thubten Chodron Mindfulness and compassion
An introduction to mindfulness and how practicing it can benefit our environment and others around…
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Making friends with ourselves
Discovering our Buddha potential by investigating the source of lasting happiness and cultivating the heart…
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Lin Qing Xiu - Jul 1, 2006
Lin Qing Xiu Practicing in the face of cancer
A student shares how she practiced the Dharma while going through chemotherapy for leukemia and…
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Western monastic life
Monastics from different traditions practicing in the West discuss aspects of training, precepts, community life,…
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Feelings that arise while doing purification
The second of three talks on the practice of prostrations to the 35 buddhas offers…
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Three ways to see bodhicitta in terms of dependent a...
How to use the understanding of dependence on causes and conditions, parts and mental labeling…
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Meditating on three types of compassion
Importance of persisting through hearing, thinking, and meditating until we see and feel how our…
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How things exist
How understanding things exist dependently provides us freedom to act without afflictions and cultivate compassion.
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108 Verses: Verse 9
Generating compassion by seeing things as not inherently existing and changing how we act with…
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Wong Li Za
- Jun 14, 2006
Equal opportunity for nuns
Interview with Buddhist nun Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo on her work to raise the self-esteem of…
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108 Verses: Verse 8
How understanding impermanence helps us view the true nature of self and develop a long…
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