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 Understanding the two truths
Examining how form depends on causes and conditions and is an expression of emptiness.
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Maintaining the purity of the Sangha
Describing how to maintain the purity of the Sangha, including some motivating advice from Master…
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Emptiness and dependent origination
Examining different meanings of dependence and different ways of inherently existing.
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The two middle-way schools
Investigating how the self exists and two primary divisions in the middle-way school.
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Intent and purpose of monastic life
Continuing the section on The Intent and Purpose of Monastic Life, from Chapter 5.
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Definitive verses, provisional interpretations
The importance of investigating all teachings and an introduction to the middle-way view.
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Mind-only interpretation of emptiness
Investigating the Cittamatra view of how things exist.
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Intent and purpose of monastic life
Explaining difference between the existence of the Dharma and the flourishing of the Dharma, as…
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Think about it this way
An interview with Venerable Thubten Chodron covering a wide range of topics related to anger.
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Facing difficulties with joy and equanimity
We can have joy and equanimity even in the face of challenges.
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Living in the modern world with love and compassion
Compassion has the aspect of allaying suffering as it's characteristic.
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Living in the modern world with love and compassion
Applying the Buddhist teachings on love in our modern life.
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