Venerable Thubten Jigme
Venerable Jigme met Venerable Chodron in 1998 at Cloud Mountain Retreat Center. She took refuge in 1999 and attended Dharma Friendship Foundation in Seattle. She moved to the Abbey in 2008 and took sramanerika and sikasamana vows with Venerable Chodron as her preceptor in March 2009. She received bhikshuni ordination at Fo Guang Shan in Taiwan in 2011. Before moving to Sravasti Abbey, Venerable Jigme (then Dianne Pratt) worked as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner in private practice in Seattle. In her career as a nurse, she worked in hospitals, clinics and educational settings. At the Abbey, Ven. Jigme is the Guest Master, manages the prison outreach program and oversees the video program.
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Venerable Thubten Jigme Review of Chapter 5
Reviewing Chapter 5, leading a discussion on how to develop trust and respect towards spiritual…
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Meditation on the inevitability of death
A guided meditation on the first three points in the nine-point meditation on death focusing…
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Love and compassion
Developing love and compassion, steps four and five of the seven-point instruction to cultivate altruism,…
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Review of the nature of mind
Venerable Thubten Jigme leads a review on the nature of mind and leads meditations on…
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Mind is the source of happiness
Venerable Thubten Jigme reviews the first chapter, focusing on understanding how the mind is the…
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Confusion about compassion
While everyone admires compassion, there is a lot of confusion about it. It's good to…
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Fortitude review
Venerable Thubten Jampa leads an interactive discussion on the bodhisattva perfection of fortitude.
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Perfection of generosity
Venerable Thubten Jigme leads an interactive discussion on the bodhisattva perfection of generosity.
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Joyous effort
Venerable Thubten Jigme reviews the bodhisattva perfection of joyous effort, including the three kinds of…
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We all can overcome our wrong views
A story of a man who used to be a white supremacist and transformed his…
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Working with expectations
False expectations we may approach ordination with, and the importance of practicing self-compassion to overcome…
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“An Open-Hearted Life”: Introduction
When we take a compassionate perspective we are better prepared to care for ourselves and…
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