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 body and mind
The various aspects that compose the body and mind: the twelve sources and eighteen constituents,…
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Classification of phenomena
A discussion about meditation and syllogisms, and begins Chapter 3 outlining the Buddhist classification of…
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Reliable cognizers and meditation
The relationship between our thinking patterns and types of cognizers, and how inferential reliable cognizers…
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Correct reasons and reliable cognizers
Three kinds of doubt, the Prasangika view of reliable cognizers, and how to know when…
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The threefold analysis
Reliable cognizers based on authoritative testimony, and how to undertake the threefold analysis to determine…
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Reliable cognizers based on example and authoritativ...
The relationship between wrong consciousnesses and our emotional life, and reliable cognizers based on example…
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Reliable cognizers and syllogisms
The types of awarenesses, direct and inferential reliable cognizers, and how to understand syllogisms.
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Types of awareness
The seven types of awareness according to the Sautantrika tenet school, and the four types…
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The two truths and non-deceptive knowledge
The two truths, ultimate and veiled truths, and the four types of reliable cognizers according…
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Nirvana is true peace
The fourth seal, that nirvana is true peace, and the importance of the sequence of…
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Living with an awareness of impermanence and death
Three of the four "seals," the marks of how to determine a scripture or text…
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How to listen to the Dharma
The value and method of learning the Dharma, and how to listen well.
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