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.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Good Karma: Pernicious thoughts
Questions about karma plus verses outlining obstacles to our spiritual practice and peace of mind.
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Good Karma: The importance of making offerings
How making offerings benefits us and how self-grasping ignorance causes afflictions to arise.
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Good Karma: Karma and the mind’s namtok
Our distorted ways of thinking and how this lead to the creation of negative karma.
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Good Karma: Overcoming spiritual obstacles
How contemplating impermanence and the defects of cyclic existence helps to transform our minds.
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Good Karma: The four characteristics of karma
How to understand karma in the context of cyclic existence and multiple lifetimes.
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The importance of understanding emptiness
Commentary on Chapter 1 of "Searching for the Self."
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Objects for developing serenity
Continuing with observed objects for developing serenity, explaining three sections from Chapter 6: Objects for…
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Power of water, power of the mind
The importance of caring for our planet out of respect for those who depend on…
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Equanimity meditation with commentary
Examining our attitudes toward others to develop equanimity.
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Shanti - Apr 28, 2025
Shanti We are the same
After arriving in India at the beginning of the year, I went to a spiritual…
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The power of the bodhisattva path
The importance of bodhicitta and two methods for developing it.
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