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 Antidotes to afflictions
Definitions, disadvantages and antidotes for key afflictions: attachment, anger, jealousy, and arrogance.
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Report on “Nuns in the West II”
"The power of women of different faiths meeting together and sharing in harmony cannot be…
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Meditation 101
On the two main kinds of meditation and how to prepare for a meditation session.
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Developing a Dharma mind
The importance of practicing ourselves before we can help others, guarding against hypocrisy and constantly…
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Working on the mind
Different practices to work with the eight worldly concerns and cultivating the six far-reaching attitudes…
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Stages of the path to enlightenment
Lamrim topics and thought transformation practices within the 37 practices of bodhisattvas.
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Precious human life
Having a precious human life, how the three poisonous attitudes affect us, importance of spiritual…
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Wisdom fear of samsara
A teaching on the reality of cyclic existence and possibility for liberation. Reflecting on our…
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Compassion for perpetrators
A compassionate response to the difficulties both caused and experienced by L. B., an incarcerated…
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Emptiness in everyday life
Looking at everyday phenomena in terms of emptiness and dependent arising and how changing how…
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Refuge and bodhicitta
The three principal causes for taking refuge—a sense of caution, a sense of confidence, and…
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Relating to a spiritual teacher
Cultivating relationships with spiritual teachers and the many ways we misunderstand what it means to…
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