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 Chapter 8: Levels of dependence
The levels of dependence as outlined in the Sanskrit tradition.
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Chapter 8: Twelve links of dependent arising
Teaching on the twelve links of dependent arising and the benefits of meditating on this.
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Chapter 8: Dependent arising
The twelve links of dependent arising according to the Pali Tradition.
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Meditation on working with disturbing emotions
Venerable Thubten Chodron helps us to develop an expansive mind to put the present election…
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Chapter 7: Emptiness and selflessness
Review of the four extremes of arising and teaching on the historical development of ideas…
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Chapter 7: The four extremes of arising
Getting us to question whether a thing arises from itself, other, self and other, or…
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A call for empathy
Comments on Michael Lerner's article "Stop Shaming Trump Supporters," and an email from a student…
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Meditation on working with prejudice
A guided meditation to help us release fear and anger of someone we are prejudiced…
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Chapter 7: Refuting the inherently existent self
The reasonings that make it impossible for an inherently existent self that we grasp at…
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Chapter 7: The object of negation
How to identify the object of negation when meditating on emptiness.
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How to think about the election
Venerable Thubten Chodron continues to discuss the election and how to use it to investigate…
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