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 Power of regret: Understanding karma
Generating regret depends on our understanding of karma and its effects.
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Windows of opportunity
Learning the Dharma helps set a clear motivation, helping us to see when windows of…
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Kaleidescope wheel
When a life ends, where does the person go? Was the person ever there to…
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Purification and merit
How we use our life to create the causes for our future experience and the…
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Review: Cultivating conventional bodhicitta
A review of transforming adverse circumstances into the path, the five forces, and the measure…
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Review: Teachings on emptiness
A review of the beginning of the section on cultivating ultimate bodhicitta: creating the causes…
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Commentary on a request to Tara
The qualities we need to cultivate so that everyone whom we come into contact with…
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The antidotes to fear
Taking refuge and considering karma and conditions are some ways of working with fear and…
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The Buddha is free from fear
Why the Buddha being free from fear is important in terms of refuge, and a…
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An interview with a newly ordained monastic
Venerable Thubten Chonyi talks candidly to Awaken magazine of her decision to follow the monastic…
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Transforming to a global village of harmony and peace
A foreword to the program of a holistic wellness symposium, on how transforming our mind…
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