Introduction to Vajrasattva practice
01 Vajrasattva Retreat (2024)
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Vajrasattva 
Dec 21, 2024 Part of a two-day retreat on the practice of Vajrasattva for Pureland Marketing given during Venerable Chodron's 2024 Seattle-to-Singapore Teaching Tour
- Four Opponent Powers and the process of purification
- Explanation of the Vajrasattva sadhana
- Questions and answers
- Guided Vajrasattva meditation
- More questions and answers
- How to understand deities in Buddhism
- Why Vajrasattva is the deity associated with purification
- How to have compassion for people doing harmful things
- The importance of establishing a continuous meditation practice
- Differences in purification practices
Part 2 of 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.
