Creating our world: dependent arising
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
How Rebirth Works 
Jul 9, 2024 A teaching on the Rice Seedling Sutra for 84000, hosted online by Joie Chen.
- Purpose of the Rice Seedling Sutra
- Meaning of dependent arising and the Dharma
- Nothing that transmigrates from one life to the next
- Inner dependent arising
- Not permanent
- Not discontinuous
- Does not involve transmigration
- Production of a large result from a small cause
- Continuity of a similar type
- Explanation of the eightfold path
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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.
