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 
Open heart, clear mind
How the mind affects our experience and how to create the causes for happiness.
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Recollection of the Dharma and Sangha
Explaining the qualities of the Dharma and Sangha, continuing the teaching from Chapter 2.
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Applying interdependence to daily life
Understanding interdependence enables us to create the causes of happiness for this and future lives.
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Don’t Believe Everything You Think
How to overcome unrealistic expectations, projections, and habitual patterns.
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Recollection of the Buddha
Completing the recollection of the Buddha and beginning the recollection of Dharma, teaching from Chapter…
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Dependent arising and emptiness
What dependent arising is and how it is compatible with realizing emptiness.
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What are we negating?
Why we need to realize emptiness and what we negate in this process.
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Buddha as a reliable guide, reverse order
Explaining the reverse order why buddha is a reliable guide and beginning the section on…
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The Buddha as a reliable guide
Explaining the four syllogisms of the forward order that prove how the Buddha is a…
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