Venerable Thubten Chonyi

Ven. Thubten Chonyi is a nun in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. She has studied with Sravasti Abbey founder and abbess Ven. Thubten Chodron since 1996. She lives and trains at the Abbey, where she received novice ordination in 2008. She took full ordination at Fo Guang Shan in Taiwan in 2011. Ven. Chonyi regularly teaches Buddhism and meditation at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane and, occasionally, in other locations as well.

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An Open-Hearted Life

“An Open-Hearted Life”: Preface by Profe...

A look at the western psychological perspective on compassion and how it relates to the…

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Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

“Precious Garland” review: Quiz 8 questi...

Venerable Thubten Chonyi reviews the infinite merit required to attain the Buddha's bodies and the…

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Cultivating Compassion

Meditating on taking and giving

Imagining taking on all the suffering of others in order to destroy our own self-centred…

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Cultivating Compassion

Obstacles to compassion

Exploring the meditation on the kindness of others, and various obstacles to compassion, including the…

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Gomchen Lamrim

Gomchen Lamrim review: Cultivating compassion

Venerable Thubten Chonyi explores the concept of compassion by reviewing equalizing and exchanging self and…

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Venerable Damcho smiling and holding one of the texts.
Life at Sravasti Abbey

No small thing: Encouragement from China

The Abbey celebrates the arrival of 32 volumes of the annotated edition of the Nanshan…

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Guided Meditations

Thought training

How to transform all our experiences into fuel for our spiritual practice.

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Gomchen Lamrim

Gomchen Lamrim review: The afflictions

Venerable Thubten Chonyi reviews the afflictions and the factors stimulating their arising.

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Explore Monastic Life

The practice of appreciating others

Venerable Thubten Chonyi shares three ways we can show our appreciation for others in a…

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