Visualizations and Brahma’s request
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Exploring Monastic Life 2011 
Aug 21, 2011 A talk given during Sravasti Abbey's annual Exploring Monastic Life program in 2011.
- Practical advice on how to use visualization practices to overcome hurt, resentment, and guilt from the past
- Questions and answers
- Four opponent powers and purification practice
- Request from Brahma Sahampati to the Buddha to teach the Dharma after his awakening
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.
