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Taiwan: Ven. Chodron at DDM
December 12, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm CST
Sowing Seeds of Dharma in the Wild West
(with consecutive Chinese translation)
Tuesday, December 12
7-9 pm, Taipei Time
Please consider wearing a mask to the talks to help keep our teacher safe and healthy.
Dharma Drum Mountain Spiritual Environmental Protection Learning Center
No. 95, 2nd Floor, Roosevelt Road, Section 2
Da’an District, Taipei City
Sowing Seeds of Dharma in the Wild West
December 12, 2023
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
When American nun Venerable Thubten Chodron met her first teachers in the 1970s, Buddhadharma had barely begun to arrive in her homeland.
Inspired by what she heard, she left everything behind to study with Tibetan masters in India and Nepal, and was soon sent out to teach the Dharma. She was among the first Western nuns to take bhikshuni ordination in Taiwan 1986.
That’s when she began to dream of founding a training monastery for American Buddhists in a Christian country. Through many challenges, Ven. Chodron continued to study, practice, teach, write, and nurture her vision.
At last, in 2003, she founded Sravasti Abbey in Newport, Washington, USA. From three residents—herself and two cats—the Abbey has grown into a vibrant community of 24 monastics (and four cats), whose Dharma outreach spreads far beyond US borders to touch the entire world.
Join Venerable Thubten Chodron as she shares her journey as a Western nun ordained for 46 years, and how she came to realize her aspiration to establish a monastic community in the West.
With consecutive translation into Chinese.
All Abbey Dharma programs are offered freely, and your offering is welcomed.
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 over 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.
