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Venerable Thubten Chodron

Pioneering American Buddhist teacher and founder of Sravasti Abbey, co-author of The Library of Wisdom and Compassion book series with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

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Questions on Rebirth

Watch this recent series of questions and answers exploring how karma and our actions influence future lives.

Lots of different factors determine which karma ripens at death. It's not just your mental state; many other factors influence the karma that will ripen.”
If the karma you created by living in a virtuous way doesn't ripen in this life, it will ripen in a future life. That's one of the qualities of karma. It doesn't disappear.”
We can influence our next rebirth now while our senses function and we can think clearly. That's the time to direct our mind to virtue—the more, the better.”

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Volume 2 The Foundation of Buddhist Practice

When karma ripens

Teaching from Chapter 11, describing in which life time karma…

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Stages of the Path

Wrong views, karma, and karmic paths

The four aspects of wrong views.

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Good Karma Annual Retreat

Q&A on karma

The importance of developing equanimity and questions from the audience…

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Man surfing on a boogie board. Students' Insights

My karma beatdown

A karmic payback incident shows how to avoid suffering by…

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Library of Wisdom and Compassion

The ripening of karma

The workings of karma including what karma ripens first, definite…

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A young woman works in the Sravasti Abbey garden. Karma and Your Life

Karma and your life: The results of karma

An understanding of karma gives us the power to create…

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Buddhist Worldview

Questions on rebirth

Exploring Buddhist perspectives on karma, rebirth, and future lives.

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

16 attributes of the four truths

Exploring how the four truths illuminate the path to liberation.

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Volume 4 Following in the Buddha's Footsteps

Mindfulness of the five hindrances

Describing the four-step process for contemplating mindfulness of phenomena in…

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Wisdom

The Buddhist view of self

Exploring how wisdom challenges our mistaken understanding of the self.

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Volume 4 Following in the Buddha's Footsteps

Refuge and bodhicitta

Leading an extensive motivation on about rooting ourselves in refuge…

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Stages of the Path

The number of truths is definitely two

Why there are only two truths, conventional and ultimate.

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Buddhist Worldview

Questions on understanding Buddhist teachings

Exploring challenging topics through the lens of Buddhist thought.

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Venerable Sangye Khadro teaches from the book Working with Anger. Working with Anger

Coping with criticism

How receiving criticism can be used for spiritual growth.

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Venerable Thubten Damcho smiling as she introduces the meditation topic. Antidotes to Afflictions

Meditation on transforming anger into compassion

Guided meditation on changing how we relate to difficulties.

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Books

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Book cover of Open Heart Clear Mind

Open Heart, Clear Mind

A practical introduction to the application of Buddhist psychology to modern life in order to bet...

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How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path

Deepen your meditation by diving into the lamrim—the stages of the path to enlightenment. This bo...

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Book cover of Refuge Resource Book

Refuge Resource Book

A collection of articles compiled by Venerable Thubten Chodron as a resource for preparing to tak...

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Book cover of Guided Buddhist Meditations

Guided Buddhist Meditations

This invaluable resource provides Dharma practitioners with clear explanations of the stages of t...

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The Key of Compassion by Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron. A row of gray prison cells with golden flowers blooming through the bars of one cell.

The Key of Compassion

Evidence of the power of compassion in the lives of incarcerated people, from the experience of t...

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Book cover of Pearl of Wisdom II

Pearl of Wisdom, Book II

An inspiring resource for students who have already entered into the practice of Tibetan Buddhism...

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Cover of "All Embracing Good" by Thubten Chodron

All-Embracing Good

Discover a path of universal compassion that transcends self-interest and embraces all beings thr...

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Book cover of Foundation of Buddhist Practice

The Foundation of Buddhist Practice

Volume 2 of the Library of Wisdom and Compassion describes the bedrock of Buddhist practice — ess...

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Book cover of "Vajrayana and the Culmination of the Path"

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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