Nine-point death meditation
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience 
Aug 8, 2014 Part of a series of teachings on The Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience, a lamrim text by Panchen Losang Chokyi Gyaltsen, the first Panchen Lama.
- The importance of meditating on death
- Explanation of the nine-point death meditation and how it helps to make life more meaningful
- Meditation on imagining one’s own death to prepare for death and help see what is important while living
Easy Path 10: Death meditation (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.
