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 A Buddhist marriage blessing
Practices that couples getting married can do to make merit and share their deepest aspirations…
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Concentration and wisdom
Interplay between mental factors and correlation to lamrim for developing meditative stabilization and wisdom.
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Purifying for refuge practice
Why purification is necessary; practices for taking refuge in spiritual mentors, the Buddhas, the Dharma,…
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Appreciation and mindfulness
What is mindfulness and how it plays an important role in study, meditation and ethical…
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Attention and aspiration
The important characteristics of attention and aspiration mental factors.
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Discrimination, intention and contact
The subtleties of mental factors and their relation to karma.
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Introduction to mind and mental factors
The Buddhist view of our thoughts and consciousness.
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A second pilgrimage in China
Two weeks of travel in China followed by two weeks of retreat and teachings with…
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Right effort, view, and thought
Concluding the teachings on the the eightfold noble path by looking at right effort, right…
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Right concentration and effort
Examining the eightfold noble path through right concentration and right effort.
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