Ten advantages of establishing precepts & skandhakas
09 Exploring Monastic Life 2024
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Exploring Monastic Life 2024 
Aug 4, 2024 Part of a series of teachings given during Sravasti Abbey's annual Exploring Monastic Life program in 2024.
- Receiving criticism for not taking sides in a conflict
- Society’s influence on the precepts and how we should keep them
- Appropriate use of technology for monastics
- How do you attract young people to the Dharma?
- How the precepts help us
- How the Vinaya is organized (Dharmaguptaka)
- Maintaining harmony in the monastic sangha
- Elements of a precept
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.
