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“Precious Garland” review: Quiz 7 questions 8-12

“Precious Garland” review: Quiz 7 questions 8-12

The review of Chapter 2 verses continues with quiz 7. Chapter 2 is an interwoven explanation of the causes and effects of higher rebirth and highest good. Part of a series of talks on Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland of Advice for a King.

  • The disadvantages of taking intoxicants
  • Prescription drug abuse in this country
  • The purpose of meditating on the foulness of the body
  • Meditation on the foulness of our own and others’ bodies
  • Reasons to refrain from killing and how to give fearlessness to others

Precious Garland review: Quiz 7 questions 8-12 (download)

Venerable Thubten Jigme

Venerable Jigme met Venerable Chodron in 1998 at Cloud Mountain Retreat Center. She took refuge in 1999 and attended Dharma Friendship Foundation in Seattle. She moved to the Abbey in 2008 and took sramanerika and sikasamana vows with Venerable Chodron as her preceptor in March 2009. She received bhikshuni ordination at Fo Guang Shan in Taiwan in 2011. Before moving to Sravasti Abbey, Venerable Jigme (then Dianne Pratt) worked as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner in private practice in Seattle. In her career as a nurse, she worked in hospitals, clinics and educational settings. At the Abbey, Ven. Jigme is the Guest Master, manages the prison outreach program and oversees the video program.