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Venerable Thubten Chodron

Pioneering American Buddhist teacher and founder of Sravasti Abbey, co-author of The Library of Wisdom and Compassion book series with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

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Working with Anger on Sharing the Dharma Day

Watch Venerable Thubten Chodron’s recent talk exploring how external factors can provoke our anger and what to do when it arises.

'Anger can arise when we encounter objects that appear unpleasant or aggravating': that sounds quite academic until it hits you in the face.”
We need some quite time in our lives to reflect on situations that provoke our anger and to ask ourselves, 'Why do I respond to this with anger?'”
We often treat those we care about the most in the worst ways. We think we can be our real selves with them, so we dump our anger on them.”

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Healing Anger

Getting a handle on anger

If we can be calm with an attitude of compassion…

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Contentment and Happiness

Are you willing to change?

The importance of setting realistic expectations and changing our perspective…

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Heart made of rocks. Healing Anger

Transforming anger into compassion

Anger isn't subdued by rearranging the world and the beings…

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Meditation

Advice for beginner meditators

A listing of teachings and videos for those new to…

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Couple in an argument. Healing Anger

Managing anger in a relationship

Anger plays a key part in relationships. Its various manifestations…

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Working with Anger

Anger, imputations and assumptions

We impute meaning on things and expect others to agree…

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Keep up with recent teachings by Venerable Thubten Chodron and other Sravasti Abbey monastics.

Teachings by Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

Go for great happiness; don’t attach to small happin...

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe describes the wisdom of enduring small sufferings…

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Volume 4 Following in the Buddha's Footsteps

Shared and specific characteristics

Covering a general description of the four establishments of mindfulness,…

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Stages of the Path

More on the emptiness of uncompounded phenomena

Why uncompounded phenomena are empty of inherent existence.

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Teachings by Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

To realize nirvana we need to realize emptiness 

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe discusses how realizing emptiness leads to nirvana.

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Working with Anger

Contact with external factors and anger

Becoming aware of what can provoke our anger.

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Working with Anger

Meditation on the influence of attachment in our life

Looking at our objects of attachment and their influence.

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Volume 4 Following in the Buddha's Footsteps

The four establishments of mindfulness

Beginning Chapter 12 on the four establishments of mindfulness: mindfulness…

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Stages of the Path

Uncompounded phenomena also lack true existent

Establishing the lack of inherent existence of permanent phenomena.

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Teachings by Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

Refuting inherence in inner and outer objects

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe discusses the refutation of inherent existence of…

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Book cover of Buddhism for Beginners

Buddhism for Beginners

An accessible and engaging introduction to some of the most commonly asked questions about the es...

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Book cover of Guided Buddhist Meditations

Guided Buddhist Meditations

This invaluable resource provides Dharma practitioners with clear explanations of the stages of t...

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Working with Anger

A variety of Buddhist methods for subduing anger, not by changing what is happening, but by worki...

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Front cover of "Driving the Dharma Home"

Driving the Dharma Home

Just as a driver’s manual steers us to travel safely, “Driving the Dharma Home”...

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The Key of Compassion by Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron. A row of gray prison cells with golden flowers blooming through the bars of one cell.

The Key of Compassion

Evidence of the power of compassion in the lives of incarcerated people, from the experience of t...

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Book cover of Pearl of Wisdom I

Pearl of Wisdom, Book I

A compilation of prayers and practices commonly taught to people beginning to study and practice ...

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Awakening the Kind Heart

Consideration for others helps make our relationships and interactions with others more satisfyin...

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Book cover of Appearing and Empty

Appearing and Empty

In this third and final volume on emptiness, the authors impart the Prasangika view of the ultima...

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Book cover of "Vajrayana and the Culmination of the Path"

Vajrayana and the Culmination of the Path

The final volume of the Library of Wisdom and Compassion by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Vener...

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