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Description:Chapters: Pema Chodron, Thubten Chodron, Sister Khanti-Khema, Ayya Sudhamma Bhikkhuni. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Pema Chodron (formerly known as Deirdre Blomfield-Brown) is an ordained Buddhist nun (bhiku) in the Tibetan Vajrayana tradition, and a teacher in the lineage of Chogyam Trungpa. The goal of her work is the ability to apply Buddhist teachings in everyday life. A prolific author, she has conducted workshops, seminars, and meditation retreats in Europe, Australia, and throughout North America. She is resident teacher of Gampo Abbey, a monastery in rural Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. Pema Chodron was born in or around 1936 in New York City. She attended Miss Porters School in Farmington, Connecticut and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. She worked as an elementary school teacher in California and New Mexico before her conversion to Buddhism. Following a second divorce, Chodron began to study with Lama Chime Rinpoche in the French Alps. She became a Buddhist nun in 1974 while studying with him in London. She is a fully-ordained bhiku in a combination of the Mulasarvastivadin and Dharmaguptaka lineages of vinaya, having received full ordination in Hong Kong in 1981 at the behest of the sixteenth Karmapa. She has been instrumental in trying to reestablish full ordination for nuns in the Mulasarvastivadin order, to which all Tibetan Buddhist monastics have traditionally belonged; various conferences have been convened to study the matter. Ani Pema first met Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche in 1972, and at the urging of Chime Rinpoche, she took him as her root guru ("Ani" is a Tibetan honorific for a nun). She studied with him from 1974 until his death in 1987. Trungpa Rinpoche's son, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, appointed ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=28240We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with American Buddhist Nuns: Pema Chodron, Thubten Chodron, Sister Khanti-Khema, Ayya Sudhamma Bhikkhuni. To get started finding American Buddhist Nuns: Pema Chodron, Thubten Chodron, Sister Khanti-Khema, Ayya Sudhamma Bhikkhuni, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Chapters: Pema Chodron, Thubten Chodron, Sister Khanti-Khema, Ayya Sudhamma Bhikkhuni. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Pema Chodron (formerly known as Deirdre Blomfield-Brown) is an ordained Buddhist nun (bhiku) in the Tibetan Vajrayana tradition, and a teacher in the lineage of Chogyam Trungpa. The goal of her work is the ability to apply Buddhist teachings in everyday life. A prolific author, she has conducted workshops, seminars, and meditation retreats in Europe, Australia, and throughout North America. She is resident teacher of Gampo Abbey, a monastery in rural Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. Pema Chodron was born in or around 1936 in New York City. She attended Miss Porters School in Farmington, Connecticut and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. She worked as an elementary school teacher in California and New Mexico before her conversion to Buddhism. Following a second divorce, Chodron began to study with Lama Chime Rinpoche in the French Alps. She became a Buddhist nun in 1974 while studying with him in London. She is a fully-ordained bhiku in a combination of the Mulasarvastivadin and Dharmaguptaka lineages of vinaya, having received full ordination in Hong Kong in 1981 at the behest of the sixteenth Karmapa. She has been instrumental in trying to reestablish full ordination for nuns in the Mulasarvastivadin order, to which all Tibetan Buddhist monastics have traditionally belonged; various conferences have been convened to study the matter. Ani Pema first met Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche in 1972, and at the urging of Chime Rinpoche, she took him as her root guru ("Ani" is a Tibetan honorific for a nun). She studied with him from 1974 until his death in 1987. Trungpa Rinpoche's son, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, appointed ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=28240We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with American Buddhist Nuns: Pema Chodron, Thubten Chodron, Sister Khanti-Khema, Ayya Sudhamma Bhikkhuni. To get started finding American Buddhist Nuns: Pema Chodron, Thubten Chodron, Sister Khanti-Khema, Ayya Sudhamma Bhikkhuni, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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