Compassion for peace in schools
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Cultivating Compassion 
Mar 12, 2025 A talk recorded for the First International Seminar on Peace Education from April 24-25, 2025, organized by the Federal University of Pampa in Uruguaiana, Brazil.
- Everyone wants to be happy and not suffer
- Buddhist definitions of compassion and love
- Finding fulfillment as a teacher
- What it means to be “wisely selfish”
- Practicing compassion for those we dislike
- What compassion is not
- How compassion manifests in our actions
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.
