Offering our service
11 Exploring Monastic Life
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Exploring Monastic Life 2025 
Aug 11, 2025 Part of a series of teachings given during Sravasti Abbey's annual Exploring Monastic Life program in 2025
- The Monastic Mind Motivation prayer, continued
- The tyranny of the “I”
- How to relate to others with an understanding of having benefited from their kindness
- Being mindful of appropriate ways of behaving in different situations
- Looking more deeply into the offering service prayer
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.
