Exploring Monastic Life 2024
History of monastic lineages and how precepts benefit the individual, monastic community, and society.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron The Buddha’s life
The role of visualization in Tibetan practice and the beginning of the Buddha's life story.
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Origins of precepts and monastic ordination
Continuation of the Buddha's life story, about the early monastic sangha.
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Venerable Sangye Khadro Working with afflictive emotions
Afflictions as the main cause of suffering, difficulties with talking about them, and cultural elements…
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The spread of Buddhism
How Buddhism spread to new areas and adapted to different cultures.
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Things to consider before ordaining
Important things to consider before ordaining such as where you'll go for guidance, where you'll…
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Monastic etiquette
Balancing the monastic way of life and staying in touch with family, plus how to…
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Working with hindrances and self-hatred
How to be friends with ourselves and five tools for countering afflictive thoughts taught by…
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Making the unfamiliar, familiar
An explanation of different levels of ordination across Buddhist traditions.
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Ten advantages of establishing precepts & skand...
How the precepts help us in a modern world.
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