Amitabha retreat: Conventional and ultimate truth

03 Amitabha Retreat

A series of teachings on the Amitabha practice for Pureland Marketing

  • Questions and answers
    • Types and purpose of offerings
    • Reality as a mental construct
  • Understanding conventional truths
  • Ultimate truths and emptiness
    • Amitabha’s pure land
  • What and where is the pure land

The first teaching in this series:

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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