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 past and future of the bhikshuni sangha in the West
The role of the sangha in preserving and spreading the Dharma. The relationship of the…
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Practicing the Dharma with bodhicitta
How to make bodhicitta the motivation for meditation and our other Dharma practices.
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“The Compassionate Kitchen”
How eating and activities related to it—preparing food, offering and consuming it, and cleaning up—can…
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Practicing with those who harm us
Venerable Chodron's "Sam" story, how those who harm us are rare and precious treasures.
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Cultivating love and compassion
Continuing to read from “Working with Afflictions” in Chapter 3 and covers “Cultivating Love and…
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Why does this get to me?
Reflecting on why we are triggered when someone is overwhelmed by negative energy or intense…
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A graded range of consciousnesses
Covering the first two consciousnesses: wrong consciousness and uncertain consciousness learning toward believing something that…
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Confronting and averting afflictions
How we should be fearful of our afflictions and polluted karma, not other people.
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Attachment endangers us
How when afflictions arise, we often don’t discern them as harmful.
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Becoming friends with ourselves
Becoming our own friend means treating ourselves with kindness, respect and compassion; celebrating our successes…
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Virtuous and variable mental factors & the affli...
Finishing teaching the virtuous mental factors, and then covering the root afflictions, auxiliary afflictions, and…
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Object ascertaining and virtuous mental factors
The 51 mental factors, covering the five object-ascertaining and 11 virtuous mental factors.
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