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Venerable Thubten Chodron

Venerable Chodron emphasizes the practical application of Buddha’s teachings in our daily lives and is especially skilled at explaining them in ways easily understood and practiced by Westerners. She is well known for her warm, humorous, and lucid teachings. She was ordained as a Buddhist nun in 1977 by Kyabje Ling Rinpoche in Dharamsala, India, and in 1986 she received bhikshuni (full) ordination in Taiwan. Read her full bio.

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Working with Anger

Contemplating the faults of anger

Two faults of anger to contemplate and why Buddhahood depends on even cockroaches.

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Working with Anger

Anger and attachment are equally unhelpful

How anger and attachment cause us to exaggerate and project qualities onto people and things.

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On Refuge and Bodhicitta

Dharma medicine for these times

Cultivating compassion in politically turbulent times.

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Three Principal Aspects of the Path

The stages of the path within our reach in the West

How the three principal aspects of the path lead to happiness for ourselves and others.

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21st Century Buddhists

Bringing Dharma to the West in the 21st century

Questions about the function of Dharma communities and how lay people and monastics can support…

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Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Overcoming self-centeredness

Investigating the way self-centeredness causes problems and how to overcome it.

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Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Seeing things clearly

Examining conventional and ultimate existence and searching for an inherent self.

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Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Suffering is a result of how we think

How seeing the world through the eyes of a victim make us unhappy.

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Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Caught in the four currents

Examining the situation for all beings in cyclic existence and how bodhicitta helps.

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Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Renunciation, bodhicitta and the wisdom realizing em...

How renunciation, bodhicitta and the wisdom realizing emptiness lead to true happiness.

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Dharma in Action

Compassion in our country

How harming others is actually harming ourselves and the importance of compassion.

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Ethics in the Modern World

Buddhist Monastic Experience

How Tibetan Buddhism can help modern people live ethically and with compassion.

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