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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Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions

Chapter 12: Genuine self-confidence

How to overcome the self-centered thought and develop genuine self-confidence based on compassion.

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Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions

Chapter 12: How to generate bodhicitta

The two methods to generate bodhicitta taught in the Tibetan tradition—the sevenfold cause and effect…

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Statements of pervasion

Covering "What Statements of Pervasion Imply,” “Statements of Pervasion Imply Statements of Qualities,” and “Statements…

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Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions

Chapter 12: Bodhicitta

Equanimity and the seven point cause and effect instruction to generate bodhicitta.

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Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions

Chapters 11 & 12: Four immeasurables and bodhic...

The four immeasurables in the Sanskrit tradition and the beginning of the chapter on bodhicitta.

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Young man praying at sunset.
On Working with Afflictions

Finally freeing myself from being a prisoner of love

A student of Venerable Chodron's writes about the futility of attachment to others in our…

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Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions

Chapters 1-10: Review

Venerable Thubten Chodron begins the third installment of the course by reviewing the first ten…

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Amitabha

Ensuring our connection with the teachings and teacher

The last three limbs of the seven-limb practice in the context of the Amitabha Buddha…

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