
Online: Searching for Self: How We Perceive Our World with Ven. Thubten Chodron
June 7 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

Hosted by Vajrayana Institute in Sydney
Searching for Self: How We Perceive Our World
with Ven. Thubten Chodron
Saturday, June 7, 5 pm – 6:30 pm Pacific Time
Sunday, June 8, 10 am – 11:30 am in Sydney, Australia
on Zoom
Join Venerable Thubten Chodron for a series of profound teachings on emptiness—a key concept in Tibetan Buddhism. This series of teachings draws from the book authored by Venerable Chodron and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Searching for the Self (which is Volume 7 of the Library of Wisdom and Compassion series).
In this session, Venerable Chodron will teach on the topic of How we Perceive Our World (Based on Chapter 6: Cognizing Subjects and Cognized Objects).
Registration information
Register here through Vajrayana Institute
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.