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 truth of dukkha
Understanding dukkha helps us to cultivate the wish to be free from it.
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The mind and renunciation
The "garbage mind:" how it keeps returning us to cyclic existence over countless rebirths, and…
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Introduction
Introductory teaching on the life history of Nagarjuna, cyclic existence, karma, bodhicitta, and the meaning…
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The Third Dalai Lama - Dec 1, 2006
The Third Dalai Lama Essence of Refined Gold
A treatise on the Lamrim Tradition of meditation, a tradition known as "Stages on the…
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The Buddhist worldview
To practice the Dharma, or even to live a happy life, it is important to…
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Cultivating emotional balance
Focusing on our own problems only makes them worse. Expanding our view to consider other…
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Gender equality/inequality in Buddhism
How our own minds create our experience of gender equality. Addressing "problematic" text, situation of…
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Adjusting to monastic life
Important elements in forming a community: how to cultivate an attitude of transparency and how…
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Instruction videos on prostrations
Instructions and demonstration on how to make prostrations.
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Taking the practice home
What to do after completing the workshop and a dedication of merit including a recitation…
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Dharma advice
Where to go when we have a Dharma questions and some practical practice advice.
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Apologies and forgiveness
What it means to apologize and how to make and receive apologies, what forgiveness is…
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