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 Qualities of Buddha’s body, speech and mind
Explaining the qualities of Buddha's body, speech and mind, and beginning the section on Buddha…
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Great vehicle driver’s ed
Ajahn Kovilo, Ajahn Nisabho, and Ayyā Ahiṃsā interview Venerable Chodron about her decades of experience…
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Small acts of compassion can have big results
The far-reaching effects of small acts of kindness.
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Last six of the unshared qualities
Covering the last six of the eighteen unshared qualities of a Buddha, teaching from Chapter…
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Meditation on transforming anger into compassion
A guided meditation on working with anger.
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Ten powers and eighteen unshared qualities
Concluding the ten powers of buddhas (9 - 10), and covering the first twelve of…
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Buddha nature
Explaining the two types of Buddha nature to help us understand our potential.
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Ten powers
Continuing explaining the ten powers of the Buddha, covering 4-9, teaching from Chapter 2.
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Creating our world: dependent arising
An explanation of rebirth through dependent arising, based on commentaries of the Rice Seedling Sutra.
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Four kinds of self-confidence, ten powers
Explaining the four kinds of self-confidence and the first three of the ten powers, teaching…
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Three Jewels of the Vajra vehicle
Finishing the section of Final and Provisional Refuges, and explaining the Three Jewels According to…
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