Venerable Thubten Chodron
Pioneering American Buddhist teacher and founder of Sravasti Abbey, currently assisting His Holiness the Dalai Lama with The Library of Wisdom and Compassion book series.
Power Tools for Overcoming Problems
Join Venerable Thubten Chodron for a weekend series of two talks on the Seven-Point Mind Training, a classic and well-loved text by 12th century Tibetan scholar Geshe Chekawa. It offers practical tips on how to apply the Buddha’s teachings to transform our problems into the path to liberation and buddhahood. To explore prior teachings on the topic, see this intro to the text or delve into the history of thought training.
Wisdom of the Kadam Masters
The media
Thoughts on how the media causes our afflictions to arise.
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Wisdom of the Kadam Masters
Meditating on the media
How to transform the way we watch media by turning…
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Buddhist Meditation 101
Meditations on kindness, gratitude and love
Learning to love and cherish others, even those who really…
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Ethics in the Modern World
Right speech in an age of fake news
Why it’s important to be loyal to the truth in…
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Seven-point Mind Training
Why should we train the mind?
Benefits and goals of mind training and an introduction to…
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Cultivating the Four Immeasurables
Meditation to raise consciousness for a healthy rela...
A meditation written by Geshe Thubten Ngawang to bring us…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Open Heart, Clear Mind
Open heart, clear mind
How the mind affects our experience and how to create…
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By Incarcerated People
Albert Ramos Trauma and recovery
Have you heard of the A.C.E.(Adverse Childhood Experience) questionnaire, which…
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Stages of the Path
Venerable Sangye Khadro Eight fully ripened excellent qualities
How we can create the causes for beneficial qualities in…
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37 Practices of Bodhisattvas
Don’t Believe Everything You Think
How to overcome unrealistic expectations, projections, and habitual patterns.
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Stages of the Path
Definite and indefinite karma
The difference between karma that is done and accumulated.
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Stages of the Path
Virtuous actions and their effects
How to create virtuous actions and their results.
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Stages of the Path
The effects of the ten non-virtues
The karmic results of non-virtuous actions.
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Volume 4 Following in the Buddha's Footsteps
Qualities of Buddha’s body, speech and mind
Explaining the qualities of Buddha's body, speech and mind, and…
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Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions
This unique text maps out the convergence and divergence of the two major Buddhist movements—the ...
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Courageous Compassion
The 6th book in the multi-volume collection and the 2nd devoted to compassion. Courageous Compass...
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Appearing and Empty
In this third and final volume on emptiness, the authors impart the Prasangika view of the ultima...
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Awaken Every Day
An instant dose of everyday wisdom, these insightful reflections help us understand our minds, ou...
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Working with Anger
A variety of Buddhist methods for subduing anger, not by changing what is happening, but by worki...
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Buddhism for Beginners
An accessible and engaging introduction to some of the most commonly asked questions about the es...
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Gavin Discovers the Secret to Happiness
A book enjoyable and beneficial for all ages, Gavin Discovers the Secret to Happiness has much to...
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Refuge Resource Book
A collection of articles compiled by Venerable Thubten Chodron as a resource for preparing to tak...
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Pearl of Wisdom, Book I
A compilation of prayers and practices commonly taught to people beginning to study and practice ...
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