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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A Nun's Life

A life in the Dharma

A discussion that includes the journey to becoming a Buddhist nun and founding a monastery,…

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An Open-Hearted Life

Cooperation and attachment styles

The benefits of an attitude of cooperation as opposed to competition, and how we can…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Karma in samsara and beyond

Completing teaching from Chapter 10, explaining the last two transcendental factors and covering the types…

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Shantideva Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Childish sentient beings

How attachment to childish sentient beings and their nonvirtuous activities is an obstacle to Dharma…

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Manjushri Weeklong Retreat 2022

How do living beings exist?

A teaching on emptiness including an explanation of the prayer "Homage to Manjushri".

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Manjushri Weeklong Retreat 2022

Compassion observing the unapprehendable

A teaching on compassion observing the unapprehendable based on Chandrakirti’s homage to great compassion.

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Manjushri Weeklong Retreat 2022

Relating to the Buddha of wisdom

How to correctly view and relate to the deity and our spiritual mentor within tantric…

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Manjushri Weeklong Retreat 2022

Compassion observing phenomena

A teaching on compassion observing phenomena based on Chandrakirti’s homage to great compassion.

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Manjushri Weeklong Retreat 2022

Giving up our poor-quality view

Dismantling low self-esteem through Buddhist psychology and tantric techniques.

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Manjushri Weeklong Retreat 2022

Cutting through the mundane mind

Questions and answers on how visualization and mantra recitation support our spiritual practice.

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