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 Staving off the flood
Strengthening our precepts and practice helps to fortify our minds against the flood of attachment…
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Attachment to ideas
Try something different! How attachment to ideas creates conflict and unhappiness in our lives.
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Attachment to personal identity
Sometimes going to a new environment gives us more space to relate to things and…
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Varieties of attachment
Under the right conditions we can become attached to anything, exaggerating the good qualities of…
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Analyzing the body
Analyzing the body helps to see how it does not exist inherently but does exist…
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The flood of attachment
Attachment and craving cause us to create non-virtue in this life and also propel us…
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The courage to be happy
In protecting us from miserliness, Tara is giving us the courage to be happy.
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Letting go of self
The materialistic view that sees the afflictions as hard-wired into us versus the Buddhist view…
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The chain of miserliness
We need to develop a realistic view of just what our situation is—bound in cyclic…
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Different ways of meditating on the four establishments
How the bodhisattvas' way of meditating on the four establishments differs from that of hearers…
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Discussion on Madhyamaka philosophies
Questions and discussion from the retreatants on the topics from the Varieties of Madhyamaka retreat.
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Practical applications of studying philosophies
A question-and-answer session with the retreatants about the teachings on Tibetan Madhyamaka.
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