Venerable Thubten Jigme
Venerable Jigme met Venerable Chodron in 1998 at Cloud Mountain Retreat Center. She took refuge in 1999 and attended Dharma Friendship Foundation in Seattle. She moved to the Abbey in 2008 and took sramanerika and sikasamana vows with Venerable Chodron as her preceptor in March 2009. She received bhikshuni ordination at Fo Guang Shan in Taiwan in 2011. Before moving to Sravasti Abbey, Venerable Jigme (then Dianne Pratt) worked as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner in private practice in Seattle. In her career as a nurse, she worked in hospitals, clinics and educational settings. At the Abbey, Ven. Jigme is the Guest Master, manages the prison outreach program and oversees the video program.
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Venerable Thubten Jigme “Precious Garland” review: Quiz 7 questi...
Venerable Thubten Jigme reviews questions on working with attachment especially to intoxicants and the body,…
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Gomchen Lamrim review: Equanimity
Venerable Thubten Jigme reviews how to develop equanimity.
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“Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 6 q...
Venerable Thubten Jigme reviews questions from quiz 6.
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Meditation in a psychiatric hospital setting
The benefits of meditation in a psychiatric hospital setting.
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“Don’t Believe Everything You Think̶...
The verses of "The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas" describe practices to transform the way we…
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Giving up the ping-pong of afflictions
Venerable Thubten Jigme shares how living in a monastic community helps us with our habitual…
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Gomchen Lamrim review: Karma in daily life
Practical ways that we can reflect on karma so we can transform habitual behavior patterns…
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“Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 3 q...
Discussion of quiz part three questions 4-6 to review verses from Chapter 1. How a…
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Practicing when having surgery
A monastic at Sravasti Abbey relies on her Dharma practice when facing surgery.
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Gomchen lamrim review: How to rely on the teachings ...
A review of salient points of the first sections of the text on the qualities…
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A prison visit on “Buddha Day”
Venerable Thubten Jigme describes her experience celebrating "Buddha Day" with those at Coyote Ridge Correctional…
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Guided meditation: imagining our death
Imagining our death prepares our mind for death and helps us make our life meaningful…
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