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 Our human value
How reflecting on duhkha lessens attachment to worldly pleasures and leads to an aspiration for…
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Kinds of duhkha
Continuing the teachings from Chapter 2, explaining eight unsatisfactory conditions and describing characteristics of true…
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Types of duhkha
Continuing Chapter 2, covering the sections “Three Types of Duhkha”, “Feelings, Afflictions and Duhkha”, and…
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Caring for our only home
It is important to care for the environment we live in, not only for our…
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Guarding the mind
Covering Verses 19-30 of Chapter 5, discussing the reasons we must guard our mind and…
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Life after the pandemic: It depends on us
A look at the effects of the pandemic on individuals and society, how people have…
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Realms of existence
Continuing Chapter 2, describing different realms where beings are reborn, causes for the rebirth and…
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Four attributes of true paths
Completing Chapter 1 describing four attributes of true paths and starting Chapter 2, covering “Knowing…
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Four attributes of true cessations
Teaching from Chapter 1, describing four attributes of true cessations and four attributes of true…
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Four attributes of true origins
Continuing Chapter 1, explaining four attributes of true duhkha and four attributes of true origins.
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Overcoming the four distorted conceptions
How the third and fourth attributes of true duhkha counter the distorted conceptions.
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Four attributes of true duhkha
How the fisrt and second attributes of true duhkha counter the distorted conceptions.
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