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How monastic community life supports living in the precepts and brings other benefits.

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Life at Sravasti Abbey

Interview by Buddhist Television Network

Venerable Thubten Chodron relays her reasons for starting Sravasti Abbey and the challenges and difficulties…

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Venerable smiling while eating a meal with other monastics.
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Six harmonies in a sangha community

Practical guidelines for setting up and living in a Dharma community or monastery, and the…

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Gotami House in Winter, surrounded by icy trees.
Life at Sravasti Abbey

Monasteries as the conscience of society

The vision behind Sravasti Abbey, the benefits of living the monastic life, and using community…

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Venerable Thubten Chodron smiling happily.
Life at Sravasti Abbey

Founding donor’s day

The birth of Sravasti Abbey, the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the U.S.

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The purpose of precepts

A talk to the newly ordained about monastic life, a monastic mind, interacting with the…

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