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Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Becoming a Monastic 
Jul 31, 2024 Clear Mountain Monastery Podcast interview of Venerable Chodron in July 2024.
- How do you deal with stubbornness in training self and others?
- What do you look for in a monastic candidate?
- How is your monastic community flourishing?
- How do you maintain the idea of staying ordained for life?
- When do you keep monastic rules strictly?
- How do we know which path, Theravada or Mahayana, is right for us?
- Training difficulty stories
- Could you explain unconditioned awareness (citta)?
- How do you work out your differences in a “monastery of two”?
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.
