Venerable Thubten Chonyi

Ven. Thubten Chonyi is a nun in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. She has studied with Sravasti Abbey founder and abbess Ven. Thubten Chodron since 1996. She lives and trains at the Abbey, where she received novice ordination in 2008. She took full ordination at Fo Guang Shan in Taiwan in 2011. Ven. Chonyi regularly teaches Buddhism and meditation at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane and, occasionally, in other locations as well.

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Karuna the cat sits on a meditation cushion.
Cultivating Compassion

Developing compassion

Definition of compassion and the conditions we already have in place to cultivate it.

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

Meditation on the initial scope of the lamrim

A guided meditation combining all the meditations of the initial level practitioner with each topic…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 11: Quiz review part 2

Review and discussion of questions on refuting truly existent time. The second part of the…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 11: Quiz review part 1

Review and discussion of questions on refuting truly existent time. The first part of the…

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Don't Believe Everything You Think

Working with anger

Examining how the source of our anger is our own mind, and that we have…

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

Guided meditation on death and impermanence

Seeing that death is definite and lifespan uncertain reflecting on the eight worldly concerns can…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Review 2 of Chapter 8: Verses 178-183

Part 2 of the second review of Chapter 8 of Aryadeva's "400 Stanzas on the…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Review 2 of Chapter 8: Verses 176-178

Part 1 of the second review of Chapter 8 of Aryadeva's "400 Stanzas on the…

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Vajrasattva Winter Retreat 2014

Appreciating the time for analysis

Expresses appreciation for the time we have during the silent Winter Retreat to do analytical…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Review of Chapter 4

A review of Chapter 4 of Aryadeva's "400 Stanzas on the Middle Way" focuses on…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Review of Chapter 7: Counteracting desire

Venerable Thubten Chonyi draws from Aryadeva's text as well as other sources to examine and…

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