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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Venerable Thubten Chonyi 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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Quiz review: Seven types of cognizers, part 4
Answers to questions related to correct assumer, doubt, and wrong consciousness.
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The far-reaching practice of wisdom
Explanation of the far-reaching practice of wisdom and how it cultivating it enables us to…
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Hope after the Sandy Hook school shooting
Working with difficult emotions and cultivating compassion in response to the shooting at Sandy Hook…
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Developing bodhicitta
Explanation of the meditation on equalizing and exchanging self and others to develop bodhicitta.
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Equalizing and exchanging self and other
Explanation of equalizing and exchanging self and others as well as a special meditation on…
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Developing and sustaining bodhi resolve
Monastics from different traditions discussed cultivating joyous effort and bodhicitta in a difficult modern world.
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Impermanence and suffering
How to contemplate impermanence and suffering, the reality of our situation in samsara, and the…
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Dedicating for awakening
The importance of protecting our merit by dedicating it towards awakening.
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Dedication and rejoicing
The importance of rejoicing in the virtue we've created before dedicating our merit at the…
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Power of regret: Identifying the causes
Beginning to see that all negative actions, the afflictions, and their results arise from causes…
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