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 Our two-year-old mind
How to work with the self-centered mind that creeps up on us in the middle…
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Eight Verses of Thought Transformation
How we can train ourselves to see the world through the eyes of Chenrezig, the…
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The four maras
Explaining the four maras that Yamantaka destroys: the afflictions, polluted aggregates, death, and the son…
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Meditating to generate bodhicitta
In the seven-point cause and effect method of generating bodhicitta the six causes lead to…
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Chapter 15: Verses 354-358
Refuting arising, abiding and ceasing as being truly existent characteristics of objects.
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Friends, enemies and strangers
A guided meditation on cultivating equanimity as a way of getting off the emotional roller-coaster…
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The privilege of making offerings
How to think while making offerings and the meaning of making the eight offerings to…
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The middle way
How dependent arising is the meaning of emptiness, and dependent arising and emptiness are also…
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Meditating to generate love and compassion
Meditating to expand heart-warming love and compassion to include all beings.
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Chapter 15: Refuting truly existent characteristics
How doe the sprout arise from the seed? When does the seed become a sprout?…
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Dependent designation
Deepening the analysis of the selflessness of the person by examining how even the process…
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The wish to repay the kindness of all beings
Seeing the kindness of all beings leads to the wish to repay their kindness which…
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