Bhikshuni Thubten Jampa

Bhikshuni Thubten Jampa is from Hamburg, Germany. She took refuge in 2001. Bhikshuni Jampa studied politics and sociology for 5 years at the Humboldt-University in Berlin and received her master in Social Science in 2004. Afterwards she worked for the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) in Berlin till 2007 and for the Tibetan Center Hamburg from 2007-2011. She completed monastic training at Sravasti Abbey, USA from 2011-2022. Today she lives in Hamburg again as a fully ordained nun (Bhikshuni) and studies full-time at the Dharma College at the Tibetan Centre. She occasionally offers lectures, retreats, regular meditations and a study group at the Buddhist Society Hamburg and if requested at the Tibetan Centre, among other places. Bhikshuni Thubten Jampa is also involved in the Hamburg Buddhist Society (BGH).

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Gomchen Lamrim

Gomchen Lamrim review: Two meditations on death

Using the nine-point death meditation and imagining our own death to help us lead a…

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Responding to Prejudice

Welcoming refugees

Bringing a positive outlook to the situation of refugees in Europe, seeing it as an…

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

Meditation and review on love, compassion and bodhic...

Concluding the seven-point cause and effect method to cultivate bodhicitta with guided meditations on love,…

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Venerable Jampa walking outside and smiling.
Life at Sravasti Abbey

Rejoicing in living at Sravasti Abbey

Venerable Thubten Jampa shares how living at the Abbey and practicing with the community has…

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Vajrasattva Winter Retreat 2014

Cultivating love on Valentine’s Day

Shares thoughts on how to cultivate love for all sentient beings, including our enemies, on…

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A bright blue sky and dry winter grass in a field at the Abbey.
Harmony with the Environment

The earth is our only home

Venerable Thubten Jampa shares on using the planet's resources wisely, with mindfulness of our interdependence.

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Harmony with the Environment

Towards a century of compassion and peace

Venerable Thubten Jampa shares His Holiness' thoughts on how integrating compassion into our daily lives…

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Harmony with the Environment

Universal responsibility and the global environment

Venerable Thubten Jampa shares on the panels and talks by His Holiness the Dalai Lama…

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Venerable Jampa shoveling snow.
Becoming a Monastic

Value of a supportive community for monastic training

Venerable Jampa (while still Anagarika Dani Meritz) writes about how living in the Abbey community…

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