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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Thanissara, Jitindriya and Elizabeth Day - May 17, 2010
Thanissara, Jitindriya and Elizabeth Day The time has come
Exploring challenges faced by bhikkunis in obtaining full ordination and why a genuine dialogue between…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron The pratimoksha vows
The various types of individual liberation vows and clarifying some confusion about the meaning and…
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Ethics and precepts
The importance of taking precepts and a reminder that precepts are voluntarily taken and are…
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Mindfulness for ethics, concentration, and wisdom
The importance of mindfulness in all three of the higher trainings, with an emphasis on…
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Establishing selflessness
Three mistaken approaches to determining selflessness and the order for establishing selflessness.
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Mindfulness and introspective awareness
The importance of mindfulness and introspective awareness in our everyday lives.
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Six perfections and three higher trainings
What makes the three higher trainings higher--rather than just ordinary--is the long-term motivation of attaining…
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Higher training in ethics
How ethical discipline is the foundation on which concentration and wisdom are built. Taking precepts…
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Ethics, concentration, and wisdom
Practicing the three higher trainings, which are practices imbued with refuge in the Three Jewels…
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The root of samsara
How things and self are merely imputed by thought and how ignorance is the root…
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Joy and courage
Continuing the discussion on joy and courage, and a discussion on verses about love and…
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Transforming depression and anxiety
Recognizing how thoughts fuel emotions, how happiness and suffering originate within the mind, and cultivating…
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