Loosening our identities
Loosening our identities
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Medicine Buddha Weeklong Retreat 2016 
Jul 3, 2016 Part of a series of talks given during the week-long Medicine Buddha Retreat at Sravasti Abbey in July 2016.
- More on the visualization of Medicine Buddha
- Short meditation on the Medicine Buddha
- Transforming our view of ourselves
- Questions and answers
- Comments on identities and bias
- Clarifications on the short meditation
- Shantideva’s verse on the union of serenity and insight
- Becoming familiar with the object of negation
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.
