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 Mutual appreciation between traditions
Although the Buddhist teachings have taken different forms, the traditions have much in common: a…
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37 Practices: Verses 17-19
When things are going really well or when there are difficult problems, the bodhisattva practices…
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37 Practices: Verses 11-16
The bodhisattva practices describe practical ways to use adverse circumstances for Dharma practice and to…
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37 Practices: Verses 9-10
How to expand our motivation beyond attaining a good rebirth to liberation and awakening to…
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37 Practices: Verses 4-8
Looking at "bad" friends who take us away from the Dharma and cherishing the spiritual…
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37 Practices: Verses 1-3
When we realize the value of a precious human life we will feel like a…
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Transforming anger into compassion
Anger isn't subdued by rearranging the world and the beings in it, but through internal…
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The Buddhist approach to happiness
Living life with the view that my happiness is most important actually leads to unhappiness.…
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Cultivating love and kindness
A talk on working with disturbing emotions based on the book "An Open-Hearted Life."
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Buddhahood and individual liberation
Responding to a viewer's question on how individual liberation fits into the path to buddhahood.
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Verse 108: The root of all goodness
The conclusion of the series, on the clear light nature of the mind and how…
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Gathering disciples and meditative stability
The four ways to gather disciples out of a sincere wish to benefit them. The…
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