
Newport: Cultivating Compassion in Everyday Life
April 15 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

Cultivating Compassion in Everyday Life
In person with Venerables Tsepal, Lamsel, and Rinchen
Tuesdays, 6:30 – 8:00 pm
at Pend Oreille PUD Conference Room—new Newport location!
130 N Washington Ave, Newport, WA 99156
Join monastics from Sravasti Abbey to learn practical tools—including meditation—to grow and expand your compassion in everyday life. The focus will be on good human values, and cultivating joy and resilience in challenging times.
Discussions will be based on the book An Open-Hearted Life, co-written by Sravasti Abbey founder and Abbess Thubten Chodron and Eastern Washington University Professor and Clinical Psychologist Russell Kolts.
No registration necessary.
All Abbey programs are offered freely, and your offerings are welcomed. Make an offering here.
About the Teachers
Venerable Tenzin Tsepal first studied with Venerable Chodron in Seattle from 1995 to 1999. She lived in India for two years and received her novice ordination from His Holiness the Dalai Lama 2001. Venerable Tsepal attended the 5 year Buddhist Studies Program at Chenrezig Institute in Australia where she subsequently lived and taught until 2015. In January 2016, Venerable Tsepal returned to the US to join the Sravasti Abbey community, and received full ordination in Taiwan in 2019. Prior to ordaining, she completed a degree in Dental Hygiene, and pursued graduate school in hospital administration at UW. She was also successfully self-employed for 10 years teaching Reiki.
Born in Sydney Australia, Venerable Thubten Lamsel first encountered Buddhism when volunteering in Nepal in 2009. Inspired by the practical teachings of Venerable Thubten Chodron, she moved to train with her at Sravasti Abbey in 2017, taking novice ordination in 2018. She has lived and trained at Sravasti Abbey since that time. She took full ordination at Fo En Si Temple in Taiwan in April 2024. Before ordination, she worked in public health research and health promotion.
Venerable Thubten Rinchen grew up near Detroit, Michigan, and studied on both the East and West Coasts of the US. In 2015, while teaching physics at Drepung Loseling Monastery in South India (as part of the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative), she discovered Buddhism. Impressed by the Tibetan monks, she started practicing at the Drepung Loseling Center in Atlanta. She moved to Sravasti Abbey in 2020 for monastic training. She received novice ordination in 2021, and full ordination in Taiwan at Fo En Si Temple in 2024.