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
Mind training in Buddhism employs short, pithy instructions that show us how to transform adversity into the path to awakening. Delve into these power tools through a classic well-loved text on the subject with Venerable Chodron as our guide.
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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Amitabha
Shakyamuni Buddha Assembly of the Immeasurable Life Tathāgata
The Sūtra of the Great Accumulation of Treasures Fascicles 17…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Stages of the Path
Venerable Sangye Khadro How to purify bad actions by means of the four powers
Explanation of the four powers of purification.
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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
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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Vajrayana and the Culmination of the Path
The final volume of the Library of Wisdom and Compassion by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Vener...
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Guided Buddhist Meditations
This invaluable resource provides Dharma practitioners with clear explanations of the stages of t...
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In Praise of Great Compassion
Volume 5 of The Library of Wisdom and Compassion takes us beyond our present situation and guides...
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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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Working with Anger
A variety of Buddhist methods for subduing anger, not by changing what is happening, but by worki...
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365 Gems of Wisdom
Reflections by Venerable Thubten Chodron and other Sravasti Abbey monastics to guide us in settin...
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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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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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