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Online: “Applying Logic in Buddhist Meditation” for 2023 BuddhaFest

September 16, 2023

Hosted by Lion’s Roar and BuddhaFest

“Applying Logic in Buddhist Meditation” for 2023 BuddhaFest
with Ven. Thubten Chodron

September 10 – October 22

Online

Venerable Thubten Chodron gives the talk “Applying Logic in Buddhist Meditation” for the 2023 BuddhaFest, a 6-week festival of Dharma talks, films, and music.

All events are accessible on demand 24/7 with a one-price festival pass. Click here to sign up for a pass with Lion’s Roar. 

BuddhaFest includes:

  • Eight new Dharma talks with Ven. Thubten Chodron, as well as Matthieu Ricard, Robert A.F. Thurman, Ruth King, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Lama Tsultrim Allione, and Craig Hamilton, and a conversation with Pico Iyer & Gaetano Kazuo Maida
  • A film tribute to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, including seven key films about his life and wisdom
  • Exclusive unreleased interviews with His Holiness the Dalai Lama
  • Musical performances with Philip Glass and Tenzin Choegyal
  • Tibetan Healing Mantras in a musical performance with Drukmo Gyal Dakini
  • A special tribute to HH the Dalai Lama’s 88th year

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 seven volumes (so far) in 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.

Venue

Sravasti Abbey
692 Country Lane
Newport, WA 99156 United States
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Phone
509-447-5549
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