Traditions of interpretation
11 The Heart Sutra
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Wisdom 
Feb 4, 2025 A series of teachings based on Essence of the Heart Sutra by His Holiness the Dalai Lama for Gompa Tibetan Monastery Services
- The four profundities
- The importance of doing our part on the path to awakening
- Different ways of negating the two extremes
- How misunderstanding emptiness can lead to the creation of nonvirtue
- Why analysis is crucial for perceiving emptiness
- Questions and answers
- The emptiness of different objects
- What qualifies as ultimate analysis
- How to analyze inherent existence
- What appears to a mind directly perceiving emptiness?
- The emptiness of different minds
The next teaching in this series:
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.
