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 The time of death is indefinite
A continuation of the nine-point death meditation, considering how our time of death is indefinite,…
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Death is definite
Beginning to discuss the nine-point death meditation. How thinking about death is important and how…
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Meditating on death and impermanence
The importance of the meditation on death and impermanence, how it helps us to re-prioritize…
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Understanding the workings of the mind
How the body and the mind have distinct continuities and what makes up the mind,…
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Meditation on giving our body
Transforming our bodies into the basis for sustaining all beings and the basis for them…
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The Buddhist worldview
How our worldview is based on a solid idea of self. Our life can change…
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Women working together
At a conference around the birthday of Bhikshuni Wu Yin, the necessary actions for encouragement…
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Karma and compassion: Part 2 of 2
The four immeasurables (love, compassion, joy, equanimity) as antidotes to negative karma.
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Karma and compassion: Part 1 of 2
In her discussion of what the Buddha meant by karma, Venerable Chodron talks about how…
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Meditation on love
How love is different from attachment and the benefits of cultivating love.
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Freedoms and fortunes of this life
Exploring our great fortune in having been born in the human realm.
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Precious human life
The meaning, purpose and rarity of the freedoms and fortunes of a precious human life…
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