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 
Labeling thoughts and emotions
How can we identify and label thoughts and feelings in a constructive way? It's important…
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Maintaining a steady practice
Practicing mind training in situations where it is difficult but important, and how to maintain…
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Precepts: directing our energy positively
The meaning and benefit of taking precepts and the different levels of vows for lay…
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Teachings in Mexico
Venerable Thubten Chodron shares her experiences teaching in Mexico and reflects on how we all…
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Prison outreach in Mexico
Buddhist principles that are transforming prison outreach are taught to leaders in a Mexican correctional…
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The commitments of mind training
What it means to be impartial about the objects of mind training and to stand…
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Attachment to samadhi
The importance of seeing all realms of cyclic existence, even the upper realms, as unsatisfactory.
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The six sufferings of sentient beings
The uncertainty and unsatisfactoriness of cyclic existence.
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The dukkha of uncertainty
The types of dukkha (unsatisfactoriness) that are pervasive in all the realms of samsara.
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Practical guidelines for good living
What taking refuge, formally or informally, means in Buddhism and the guidelines one uses after…
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The eight disadvantages of cyclic existence
The sufferings of separation from what we like and being under the control of afflictions…
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