The ethical conduct of gathering virtue and benefiting sentient beings
The ethical conduct of gathering virtue and benefiting sentient beings
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
The Six Perfections 
Dec 3, 2023 Part of a series of talks given during a weekend retreat hosted by Wihara Suddhi Bhavana in Indonesia. During the talks Venerable Chodron refers to the book Courageous Compasssion the sixth volume in The Library of Wisdom and Compassion series by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Venerable Thubten Chodron. The talks are given in English with Bahasa Indonesia translation.
- Questions and answers
- Do Dharma pills and mantras help cure illness?
- Do monastics have problems? How do monastics deal with problems?
- The ethical conduct of gathering virtue
- Refraining from the 10 nonvirtues and doing their opposite
- Taking precepts
- The ethical conduct of benefiting sentient beings
- The eleven categories of people to pay attention for giving aid
- A short explanation of emptiness
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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.
