The Buddha’s life
01 Exploring Monastic Life 2024
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Exploring Monastic Life 2024 
Jul 23, 2024 Part of a series of teachings given during Sravasti Abbey's annual Exploring Monastic Life program in 2024.
- The role of visualization in Tibetan Buddhist practice
- Soothsayer’s prediction: great ruler or great spiritual leader
- Sneaking out of his sheltered environment to visit the nearby town
- Mastering high states of concentration, and understanding he was not liberated
- Joining a group of extreme ascetic practitioners
- Meditating under a bodhi tree, overcoming anger, attachment, and ignorance
- Teaching his former ascetic companions the Four Truths
- The first two of the Four Truths
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.
