Paving the way for tantra
02 Preparing for Tantra (2026)
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Introduction to Tantra 
Oct 23, 2025 
An online talk for Tse Chen Ling's series Women of Wisdom: Celebrating the Living Legacy of Buddhist Women
- Brief guided meditation on the “All-Encompassing Yoga”
- Overview of Volume 10 Vajrayana and the Culmination of the Path
- Empowerments, permissory rites, and oral transmission
- Unusual behavior
- Utilizing afflictions in the path
- Taking death, bardo, and rebirth into the path
- Four Tibetan traditions
- Wisdom in paramitayana and vajrayana
- Method in paramitayana and vajrayana
Part 1 of this teaching:
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.
