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Hybrid Hybrid Event
Event Series Event Series: NYC and European Teaching Tour 2025

New York City: Ven. Thubten Chodron at Shantideva Center

March 28 @ 4:30 pm - March 30 @ 1:30 pm PDT

Hybrid Hybrid Event

Hosted at Shantideva Center
In-person and online!

Three Principal Aspects of the Path

March 28

7:30-9 pm Eastern Time

Dealing with Challenges and Difficulties: How Relying on Tara and Thought Training Will Help

March 29 and 30

10:30 am – 4:30 pm Eastern Time (both days)

Abbess teaches.

Fri Mar 28: Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Venerable Thubten Chodron teaches Lama Tsongkhapa’s roadmap to spiritual awakening, Three Principal Aspects of the Path.
This short but powerful text explains the main pathways necessary for making spiritual progress:

  1. Renunciation, the mindset that turns away from illusory sources of happiness and the cycles of suffering, both within and across lifetimes;
  2. Bodhicitta, the deep care for all beings that motivates one to seek Buddhahood for all of their sake; and
  3. Emptiness, the transformative insight into the impermanent and interdependent nature of all phenomena.

Lama Tsongkhapa, the primary founder of the Gelug tradition, is renowned for organizing the Buddha’s teachings into step-by-step instructions that follow a logical progression. Venerable Thubten Chodron’s teaching style is warm, approachable, and deeply relatable. She skillfully connects everyday human experiences to the wisdom of the Dharma, making complex Buddhist concepts clear and compelling. This combination of Lama Tsongkhapa’s essential teachings and Venerable Chodron’s down-to-earth approach is an opportunity not to be missed.

Sat-Sun, Mar 29-30: Dealing with Challenges and Difficulties: How Relying on Tara and Thought Training Will Help

Venerable Thubten Chodron leads a weekend series of teachings exploring how to apply the timeless wisdom of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition to our own lives amid the challenges of our shared, tumultuous reality. We don’t have to look far to see that distressing events in both our personal lives and the world around us can easily send us into a tailspin.

In her warm, clear, and compassionate style, Venerable Thubten Chodron addresses our most pressing 21st-century concerns. One powerful category of Buddhist teachings is thought training, which views these challenges as precious material to take onto the spiritual path. Rooted in an understanding of karma as the flow of causes and effects within a system of ethics, thought training encourages us to respond to suffering in ways that align with our values. Rather than leading with self-centered thinking, we can take radical responsibility for our own karma, shifting away from pain and blame to transform our self-centered thoughts.

Venerable Thubten Chodron also guides us through the recitation of her own prayer, A Song to Mummy Tara in These Dire Times. She composed this prayer at the request of others in response to the rise of leaders with distorted views whose actions cause suffering. Tara, the Buddha of compassion in action, is the embodiment of fearless, enlightened activity. This prayer calls upon Tara’s blessings to strengthen our fortitude and resolve. It helps us stay firm in virtue, know when to speak and act wisely, and turn away from distraction and discouragement. May reciting this prayer inspire us to connect with every living being through love and compassion.

Registration

Registration information is at Shantideva Center’s event page. Note that there is one registration form, covering both events and online/in-person attendance.

More about the teacher

Venerable Thubten Chodron is an author, teacher, and the founder and abbess of Sravasti Abbey, one of the first Tibetan Buddhist training monasteries for Western nuns and monks in the US. She graduated from UCLA, and did graduate work in education at USC. Ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun in 1977, she has studied extensively with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Tsenshab Serkong Rinpoche, and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. She received full ordination as a bhikshuni in 1986.

She has published many books on Buddhist philosophy and meditation, including the ten-volumes of The Library of Wisdom and Compassion, co-authored with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, with whom she has studied for nearly forty years.

Venerable Chodron teaches worldwide and is known for her warm, practical, and humorous explanations of how to apply Buddhist teachings in daily life. She is also involved in prison outreach and interfaith dialogue. Learn more about her. Find a media library of her teachings and info on her books on her personal website, ThubtenChodron.org.

Details

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March 28 @ 4:30 pm PDT
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March 30 @ 1:30 pm PDT
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https://shantidevanyc.org/chodron-mar25/

Organizer

Shantideva Center
Phone
(917) 909-0410
Email
info@shantidevanyc.org
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Venue

Shantideva Center
432 6th Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11215 United States
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(917) 909-0410
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