Living in Community
How monastic community life supports living in the precepts and brings other benefits.
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Zopa Herron Supporting monastics in the West
Long-time practitioner Kathleen Herron (also known as Zopa) shares her Dharma adventures as a lay…
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Tenzin Chogkyi Living in solitude and living in community
How community life provides the container for someone to receive the full benefits of monastic…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Interview by Buddhist Television Network
Venerable Thubten Chodron relays her reasons for starting Sravasti Abbey and the challenges and difficulties…
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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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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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Sravasti Abbey Monastics Founding donor’s day
The birth of Sravasti Abbey, the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the U.S.
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Sravasti Abbey: Tradition and innovation
Aspirations and visions behind the establishment of Sravasti Abbey.
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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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