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Seattle area: Transforming Anxiety and Depression with Ven. Thubten Chodron

December 6, 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm PST

Transforming Anxiety and Depression in a Rapidly Changing World
with Ven. Thubten Chodron

Tuesday, December 6

7:30-9 pm Pacific Time

Evergreen Buddhist Association,
13000 NE 84th St, Kirkland, WA 98033

Now also offered online! 

Abbess teaches.

Pandemics, climate breakdown, social, economic and political unrest – these are just a few of the stressors confronting the 21st century psyche, often with painful outcomes. Nonetheless, Buddhist wisdom has much to offer in helping us weather the storms of modern life.

Dharma Friendship Foundation welcomes you to join in person for this special event with acclaimed Buddhist author and teacher, Venerable Thubten Chodron as she offers easily accessible teachings on how to cultivate emotional resilience and spiritual peace in trying times.

In person: We ask that you wear a well fitting face mask in order to protect against the spread of viral illness.

Join online here.

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

American Evergreen Buddhist Association
13000 NE 84th Street
Kirkland, WA 98033 United States
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Phone:
(425) 827-5657
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