Trip to Singapore and Dharamsala

  • Venerable Chodron’s karmic connections with students in Singapore
  • Friends of Sravasti Abbey Singapore’s joyous effort to organize the teachings
  • Various teaching topics, and opportunities to meet new and old friends during the visit
  • Extending an invitation to His Holiness the Dalai Lama to visit the Abbey
  • The joy in sharing the Abbey’s achievements with His Holiness
  • Attending the Buddhist Global Congregation Conference

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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.

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