Sex and our culture

Sex and our culture

Part of a series of talks given during the annual Young Adult Week program at Sravasti Abbey in 2008.

  • How should we perceive sex?
  • Discussion of sex in the media created disillusions about sex
    • To see people as a sexual object
    • Confusion between sex and affection
    • One has to be sexy

Part two

Venerable Thubten Chodron

Venerable Chodron emphasizes the practical application of Buddha’s teachings in our daily lives and is especially skilled at explaining them in ways easily understood and practiced by Westerners. She is well known for her warm, humorous, and lucid teachings. She was ordained as a Buddhist nun in 1977 by Kyabje Ling Rinpoche in Dharamsala, India, and in 1986 she received bhikshuni (full) ordination in Taiwan. Read her full bio.