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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

Watch Venerable Thubten Chodron’s recent talk exploring how to identify and take responsibility for anger when it arises.

We think it's somebody else's anger that's the problem. And the solution is very clear: I'm right, you're wrong, and you should change.”
The key is not suppressing our anger but working with it instead. We have to learn to look at the thoughts that lie behind our anger.”
When we think our unhappiness is coming from other people, we're giving our power away because we can't control other people.”

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Fear, Anxiety, and Other Emotions

Combating anxiety with a meditative mind

Ways that Buddhist practices of love and compassion for others…

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Stages of the Path

Eight fully ripened excellent qualities

How we can create the causes for beneficial qualities in…

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Tibetan Tradition

The rise of women in Buddhism: Has the ice been broken?

In this panel discussion recorded in 2014, Venerable Thubten Chodron…

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The Buddha meditating under the Bodhi Tree. On Emptiness

What is the truth?

What lessons can we take away from current politicians who…

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Woman lighting a candle during Catholic mass. New to Buddhism

Some challenges of changing religions

What to do when we find ourselves applying conditioning from…

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Wisdom of the Kadam Masters

The best conduct

Why the best conduct is at variance with the mundane…

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Latest Posts

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

Living in Community

Advice to Sravasti Abbey’s Monastic Community

In an environment like this, which is so conducive to…

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Volume 4 Following in the Buddha's Footsteps

Bodily formation and four postures

Continuing with the practice of breathing meditation, specifically Calming the…

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Stages of the Path

Meaning of the words convention and truth

Explanation of the different meanings of conventional truth.

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Teachings by Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

How the buddha taught the dharma  

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe describes the different ways in which the…

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Teachings

The boundless heart

The four immeasurable qualities and the benefits of cultivating them.

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Volume 4 Following in the Buddha's Footsteps

Mindfulness of breathing

Concluding an overview of mindfulness of the body and explaining…

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Stages of the Path

The purpose of dividing the two truths

How the two truths are one entity but different isolates.

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Teachings by Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

Bodhisattvas are born from the universal vehicle  

A teaching on how the universal vehicle scriptures should be…

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Working with Anger

Working with Anger

How we can learn to recognize and take responsibility for…

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Books

Learn more about Buddhist books written and edited by Venerable Thubten Chodron as well as other Sravasti Abbey teachers.

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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