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Establishing selflessness

Establishing selflessness

A series of commentaries on Mind Training Like Rays of the Sun by Nam-kha Pel, a disciple of Lama Tsongkhapa, given between September 2008 and July 2010.

  • Three mistaken approaches to determining selflessness
  • The order for establishing selflessness
  • Why it is easier to meditate on the selflessness of persons rather than of phenomena
  • Beginning of the section on how to determine the selflessness of persons

MTRS 66: How to determine the selflessness of persons (download)

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.