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 The seven jewels of the aryas: Consideration for sel...
Personal integrity and consideration for others, the fifth and sixth jewels of the aryas.
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Yanzhen Shi - Feb 25, 2019
Yanzhen Shi Buddhist religious practitioners should serve as soc...
In an interview with Dharma Drum Mountain, Venerable Chodron explains how the monastics of Sravasti…
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Three turnings of the Dharma wheel
Explanation of the three turnings of the Dharma wheel in terms of when and where…
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The seven jewels of the aryas: Learning in Tibetan M...
The study programs in the Tibetan monasteries, which is very different from learning programs in…
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Manjushri, the special deity of debate
Teaching on Chapter 18, 'Manjushri, the special deity of debate', and beginning of teaching on…
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The seven jewels of the aryas: Learning
Learning, the fourth jewel of the aryas, and how to best learn the Dharma.
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The three baskets
Finishing Chapter 4 by describing the differences in content of the three baskets, or tripitaka,…
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The seven jewels of the aryas: Generosity of protect...
The two other kinds of generosity referred to in the third jewel of the aryas:…
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Interview with Shide Nunnery
An interview with Venerable Chodron with nuns from Shide Nunnery in Germany about the mindful…
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The seven jewels of the aryas: Material generosity
The benefits of material generosity, one of the different kinds of generosity referred to by…
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Tantra and Buddhist canons
Briefly covering tantra and beginning a section on the content of the three extant Buddhist…
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