Jun 1, 2014 | Monastic Life, News
Ven. Damcho gives an illuminating description of monastic life, starting with the mind of the new arrival.
May 14, 2014 | Dharma Insights, News
Carrie Loranger, a student in the Sravasti Abbey Friends Education (SAFE) distance learning program, examines causes and effects of living the Dharma: This past week reflections on karma came up quite a bit. We do not know what karma we come into this life with, so...
May 4, 2014 | Monastic Life, News
by Venerable Thubten Chonyi This spring the Old Gold Mine Hermitage, near rural Republic, Washington, was the site of what for the locals must have seemed an unlikely work party. For five days Buddhist monks and nuns joined lay practitioners to help restore a part of...
Apr 2, 2014 | Dharma Insights, News
Stephen W. attended a course given by Ven. Chodron in the early 1990s in India and has remained her student since. In 2014, he included the following in a letter to her.
Apr 2, 2014 | Dharma Insights, News
Diana writes on behalf of the Rechung Dorje Dragpa center in Xalapa, Mexico, to share their experiences of doing the Vajrasattva Retreat from Afar together. We were 16 people doing the retreat, many of us for the first time. Additionally, other people attended our...
Feb 7, 2014 | Dharma Insights, News
Suzanne Chudejova, who recently relocated from Europe back to her family home in South Carolina where she met Ven. Chonyi, wrote to the Abbey about her brush with death.