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 Twenty-Verse Prayer from Nagarjuna’s “Precious...
Twenty verses that Nagarjuna encourages us to recite three times a day to accumulate the…
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Giving to all sentient beings
How to give to all sentient beings and holy beings as in the taking-and-giving meditation.
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Attributes of true origins: Conditions
How craving and karma function as conditions that create suffering in cyclic existence as well.
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The link between anger and arrogance
How developing humility can be an antidote to anger and arrogance.
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Chapter 5: Verses 466-467
Extensive explanation of taking refuge and paying homage to the Three Jewels.
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Attributes of true origins: Strong producers
The importance of keeping in mind how our suffering is caused by our ignorance, afflictions,…
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Attributes of true origins: Origin
Why the origins of cyclic existence are numerous, not singular, and how this helps us…
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Offering our bodies to sentient beings
Teaching from "Transforming Adversity into Joy and Courage" on mentally giving away our bodies for…
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Attributes of true origins: Cause
How our state of existence in samsara has a cause, it is not random.
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Chapter 5: Verses 463-466
Teaching on the ten powers of a buddha and beginning on the 20 verses we…
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Attributes of true dukkha: Selfless
A teaching on the non-existence of the self-sufficient substantially existent person.
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Extensive giving
Reading from the book "Transforming Adversity into Joy and Courage" on the giving aspect of…
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