Things to consider before ordaining
05 Exploring Monastic Life 2024
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Exploring Monastic Life 2024 
Jul 29, 2024 Part of a series of teachings given during Sravasti Abbey's annual Exploring Monastic Life program in 2024.
- Therapy and Buddhism
- Figuring out where to go for guidance and ordination
- Know where you’ll live and how you’ll be supported
- Precepts, etiquette, and ordination order
- What is available and not available for Western monastics
- Keeping in mind what you represent when you are ordained
- Be clear why you want to ordain
- Keeping precepts for life
- Examples of monastic etiquette that can be hard to keep
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.
