Venerable Thubten Chodron
Pioneering American Buddhist teacher and founder of Sravasti Abbey, currently assisting His Holiness the Dalai Lama with The Library of Wisdom and Compassion book series.
Politics, Power, and Peace
Is it possible to take an ethical stand on issues and disagree with people while remaining harmonious and open-hearted? Is anger ever justified for countering injustice? Are Buddhism and politics even compatible? Listen and reflect as Venerable Chodron speaks to these questions with advice as beneficial today as it was in 2020.
Working with Emotions
Cultivating emotional balance
Learning to handle our emotions instead of being under their…
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Healing Anger
Dealing with anger using mind training
When we're angry our view of the situation is an…
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Responding to Prejudice
Bodhisattva versus white supremacist
Venerable Thubten Chodron comments on the Charlottesville protest rally.
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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta
Verse 14-2: What samsara is
The samsara we're in is this very body and mind,…
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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate
The root affliction of anger
Venerable Sangye Khadro continues teaching on the first root affliction…
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The Six Perfections
Paramita of fortitude
Examples from Buddhist scriptures of the bodhisattva perfection of fortitude.
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Venerable Sangye Khadro 
Amitabha
Shakyamuni Buddha Assembly of the Immeasurable Life Tathāgata
The Sūtra of the Great Accumulation of Treasures Fascicles 17…
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Stages of the Path
How to purify bad actions by means of the four powers
Explanation of the four powers of purification.
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Open Heart, Clear Mind
Open heart, clear mind
How the mind affects our experience and how to create…
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By Incarcerated People
Albert Ramos Trauma and recovery
Have you heard of the A.C.E.(Adverse Childhood Experience) questionnaire, which…
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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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37 Practices of Bodhisattvas
Don’t Believe Everything You Think
How to overcome unrealistic expectations, projections, and habitual patterns.
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Stages of the Path
Definite and indefinite karma
The difference between karma that is done and accumulated.
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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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Guided Buddhist Meditations
This invaluable resource provides Dharma practitioners with clear explanations of the stages of t...
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In Praise of Great Compassion
Volume 5 of The Library of Wisdom and Compassion takes us beyond our present situation and guides...
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Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions
This unique text maps out the convergence and divergence of the two major Buddhist movements—the ...
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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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365 Gems of Wisdom
Reflections by Venerable Thubten Chodron and other Sravasti Abbey monastics to guide us in settin...
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Buddhism for Beginners
An accessible and engaging introduction to some of the most commonly asked questions about the es...
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Pearl of Wisdom, Book I
A compilation of prayers and practices commonly taught to people beginning to study and practice ...
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Approaching the Buddhist Path: Study Guide
Approaching the Buddhist Path, Volume 1 in The Library of Wisdom and Compassion, introduces us to...
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