Webcast: Working with Anger
Venerable Thubten Damcho 
May 19, 2023 
24 hours
Online
Working with Anger Workshop
Available for viewing on Gompa Tibetan Monastery Services starting June 4, 2023
Organized by Coordinamento Nazionale Pedagogisti e Educatori
Interpretation into Italian also available
In this series of five talks, Venerable Thubten Chodron explains how anger arises, what anger is, and how anger interacts with our lives. She explores the disadvantages of anger, and how anger relates to attachment and social change, and explains the Buddhist perspective on how we can overcome anger both toward ourselves and others.
Gompa member-supporters are cordially invited to register for this special teaching event. At the time you register, there will also be the opportunity to make a voluntary offering in support of the Sravasti Abbey, Newport, Washington, USA. From the closing registration date of July 3rd, 2023, onwards, the teaching will continue to be available to Gompa member-supporters from the Gompa Library.
Venerable Thubten Damcho
Ven. Damcho (Ruby Xuequn Pan) met the Dharma through the Buddhist Students’ Group at Princeton University. After graduating in 2006, she returned to Singapore and took refuge at Kong Meng San Phor Kark See (KMSPKS) Monastery in 2007, where she served as a Sunday School teacher. Struck by the aspiration to ordain, she attended a novitiate retreat in the Theravada tradition in 2007, and attended an 8-Precepts retreat in Bodhgaya and a Nyung Ne retreat in Kathmandu in 2008. Inspired after meeting Ven. Chodron in Singapore in 2008 and attending the one-month course at Kopan Monastery in 2009, Ven. Damcho visited Sravasti Abbey for 2 weeks in 2010. She was shocked to discover that monastics did not live in blissful retreat, but worked extremely hard! Confused about her aspirations, she took refuge in her job in the Singapore civil service, where she served as a high school English teacher and a public policy analyst. Offering service as Ven. Chodron’s attendant in Indonesia in 2012 was a wake-up call. After attending the Exploring Monastic Life Program, Ven. Damcho quickly moved to the Abbey to train as an Anagarika in December 2012. She ordained on October 2, 2013 and is the Abbey’s current video manager. Ven. Damcho also manages Ven. Chodron’s schedule and website, helps with editing and publicity for Venerable’s books, and supports the care of the forest and vegetable garden.