Print Friendly, PDF & Email

Visualizing the Medicine Buddha

Visualizing the Medicine Buddha

Part of a series of talks given during the week-long Medicine Buddha Retreat at Sravasti Abbey in July 2016.

  • Overview of our vacation with Medicine Buddha
  • Types of meditation
  • The psychology of Tibetan Buddhist sadhana practice
  • Visualizing the Medicine Buddha
  • Questions and answers
    • Medicine Buddhas in the 35 Buddhas confession practice
    • Connecting with our feeling of being with a holy being
    • Developing infinite compassion

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.