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The pagoda project: An update
An update on the meditation pagoda constructed by the Buddhist study group at a corrections center in Washington State.
New! “The Compassionate Kitchen”
How eating and activities related to it—preparing food, offering and consuming it, and cleaning up—can wake us up and increase our kindness and care for others.
Getting started
A quick guide to getting started with using ThubtenChodron.org.
Selflessness keeps you out of SHU
From a teaching by Venerable Chodron, an incarcerated person learns to train consistently to deal with difficult situations.
The three baskets
Finishing Chapter 4 by describing the differences in content of the three baskets, or tripitaka, between the three extant Buddhist canons.
The clap!
Teaching on Chapter 17: The Clap! which details the symbolism behind the dramatic physical form of Tibetan debate.
Using difficulties to uplift your practice
Not succumbing to discouragement, and stories of bodhisattvas in action.
Interview with Shide Nunnery
An interview with Venerable Chodron with nuns from Shide Nunnery in Germany about the mindful running of a nunnery.
Pride and humility
How to respond to criticism by a junior, and an example of humility from Tibetan Buddhism.
Love without expectations
How our expectations of others prevent us from loving them unconditionally.
Tantra and Buddhist canons
Briefly covering tantra and beginning a section on the content of the three extant Buddhist canons.
The seven jewels of the aryas: Ethical conduct
The importance of ethical conduct, the second Jewel of the aryas, and how hurting others hurts us too.
Challengers and defenders
Beginning to teach Chapter 16, ‘Challengers and Defenders’, which focuses on the two key roles in a structured debate in the Indian and Tibetan system.