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American professor teaches physics to Tibetan nuns
Nicole Ackerman has been teaching science to Tibetan Buddhist monastics through the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative (ETSI), and is passionate about teaching
Getting started
A quick guide to getting started with using ThubtenChodron.org.
Getting rid of my buttons
Wrong conceptions lie at the root of many of the problems we encounter in dealing with others. Here we examine how to use logic to counteract such thoughts.
Visit to Airway Heights Correctional Center
A nun visits a correctional facility for the first time in order to participate in a Buddha Day ceremony.
There are no enemies
How our Dharma practice can help us with our tendency to classify sentient beings into three boxes: Friends, Enemies, and Strangers.
The object of negation
Venerable Thubten Tarpa leads a review of the four point analysis meditation on emptiness, with focus on the first point of identifying the object of negation.
Review of Definitions
Venerable Tenzin Tsepal leads a review of definitions from the divisions of the selfless, up to the divisions of functioning things.
Functioning things
Beginning to teach on the divisions of “Functioning Things,” as part of Chapter 11: “Basic Buddhist Ontology 2.”
Kurushimi
Kurushimi means suffering or hardship. By recognizing the suffering of others, we understand their truths and generate compassion toward all sentient beings.
Buddhist monastics in the Inland Northwest
How Sravasti Abbey found a home in rural Washington and the purpose of a Buddhist monastery. Reading and commentary from “Approaching the Buddhist Path”.
Real and unreal
Continuing to teach on emptiness, introducing the division of “real” and “unreal.”
Nonexistents
Exploring what “bad” means through a syllogism, and teaches on the category of “non-existents.”
