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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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LR14 Bodhisattva Deeds

Calm abiding review

A review on how to choose the object of meditation and how to cultivate mindfulness…

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Travels

Teaching in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union

A 16-city teaching tour in Eastern Europe in 1994 reveals the optimism and difficulties experienced…

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LR14 Bodhisattva Deeds

Forgetting the object of meditation

Forgetting the object of meditation as an obstacle to calm abiding and mindfulness as its…

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Objects of meditation and deterrents

Continuing to look at objects of calm-abiding meditation and the first of the five deterrents:…

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LR14 Bodhisattva Deeds

Objects of meditation

Examining the various objects of calm abiding meditation taught by the Buddha.

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LR14 Bodhisattva Deeds

Preparing for calm abiding meditation

Establishing the six conducive conditions for calm abiding meditation and advice on doing retreat.

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Guru Yoga

Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga, Part 2

Part 2 of Venerable Thubten Chodron's explanation of the practice of Guru Yoga.

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LR14 Bodhisattva Deeds

The four factors of gathering disciples

The four ways of gathering disciples, also know as the four ways to ripen others'…

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LR14 Bodhisattva Deeds

Training in calm abiding

Introduction to the source of the teachings on calm abiding, its etymology, definition and explanation,…

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LR14 Bodhisattva Deeds

Ripening the minds of others

What it means for a spiritual mentor to ripen the mind of the sentient being.

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LR14 Bodhisattva Deeds

Perfections of concentration and wisdom

Examining the three types of meditative stabilization and the four types of wisdom.

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Complementary nature of the perfections

Examining how each of the six far-reaching practices work together to complement and support each…

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