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Switzerland: Ven. Thubten Chodron Teaching Tour

April 9 - April 12

The Buddhist Approach to Cultivating Inner Peace: Perspectives from Fifty Years of Practice

April 9

(note corrected date)
7-9 pm CET

At: Geneva Quaker House, 13 Avenue du Mervelet, 1209 Geneva, Switzerland

Simultaneous interpretation into French. Register here.

For more information, see Centre Gendundrupa’s event listing.

For queries contact: Stephen Wainwright, +41 79 251 8019, [email protected]


Buddhist Wisdom on Managing Your Emotional Life

April 11

7-9 pm CET

Abbess teaches.

With simultaneous interpretation into German and French

See Longku Center’s event webpage for more information.

Parting from the Four Clingings

April 12 and 13

10 am-4 pm

Teaching and explanation of Jetsun Drakpa Gyaltsen’s song of experience on mind training and the view.

With simultaneous interpretation into German and French

See Longku Center’s event webpage for more information, including the text.

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.

Venues

13 Avenue du Mervelet
Geneva, 1209 Switzerland
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