Venerable Chodron talks with a monastic about what it means to take full ordination.
Living with a qualified spiritual mentor in a monastic community is the most conducive situation for training in the monastic precepts. Learn about how monastic community life supports living in the precepts and brings other benefits.
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Living with a qualified spiritual mentor in a monastic community is the most conducive situation for training in the monastic precepts. Learn about how monastic community life supports living in the precepts and brings other benefits.
The six harmonies: Setting the stage for living together
The six harmonies help people come together to create a spiritual community with the conditions conducive to spiritual practice.
The benefits of living in a monastic community
Venerable Jampa reflects on the benefits to be gained by living in a community of monastics.
Questions and answers with monastics
A discussion on various topics of daily life in the community, applicants for ordination, the roles of residents, and creating a monastery in the West.
The six harmonies of the sangha: Part 2
The six ways of keeping harmony in the monastic community that help the community as a whole and each individual. Discussion of the last three harmonies.
The six harmonies of the sangha: Part 1
The six ways of keeping harmony in the monastic community that help the community as a whole and each individual. Discussion of the first three harmonies.
The ten benefits of monastic precepts
The ten reasons the Buddha gave for establishing the precepts cover benefiting the the individual monastic, the Sangha, society, and preserving the Dharma.
Living in community as Dharma practice
A talk to Tibetan nuns about community living at Sravasti Abbey and how nuns can take advantage of their precious opportunity to learn and practice the Dharma.
El valor de la comunidad monástica
La importancia de la comunidad monástica en el budismo.
Question and answer session with nuns in Indonesia
Questions on various topics including gender equality of monastics, relating to the spiritual teacher and relationships and communication within the community.
