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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Venerable Thubten Chonyi “Precious Garland” review: Quiz question...
Discussion of quiz questions 8 to 15 to review verses from Chapter 1.
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Prison pagoda of loving kindness
Members of a prison Dharma group make their vision of a stupa a reality.
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A prayer for the world
A look at the attacks in Paris in the context of violence around the world.
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Things keep changing
More ways to reflect on impermanence in daily life, focusing on the processes of the…
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Things change
A gentle reflection on impermanence that we can do daily to cushion the shock we…
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Love your neighbor
A meditation on extending a sense of care and affection to people whom we find…
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Grateful mind, happy mind
Skillful ways to transform the dissatisfied mind into one that is content and happy.
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Suffering is like a dream
Looking at things and people in a more realistic way can help us have a…
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Developing compassion
Definition of compassion and the conditions we already have in place to cultivate it.
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Meditation on the initial scope of the lamrim
A guided meditation combining all the meditations of the initial level practitioner with each topic…
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Chapter 11: Quiz review part 2
Review and discussion of questions on refuting truly existent time. The second part of the…
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Chapter 11: Quiz review part 1
Review and discussion of questions on refuting truly existent time. The first part of the…
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