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Thubten Chodron, born Cheryl Greene, is an American Tibetan Buddhist nun, author, teacher, and the founder and abbess of Sravasti Abbey, the only Tibetan Buddhist training monastery for Western nuns and monks in the United States. Chodron is a central figure in the reinstatement of the Bhikshuni (tib. Gelongma) ordination of women. She is a student of the 14th Dalai Lama, Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche, Lama Thubten Yeshe, Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, and other Tibetan masters. She has published many books on Buddhist philosophy and meditation, and is the only nun who has co-authored a book with the Dalai Lama-Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions Born in 1950, Chodron grew up in a non-religious Jewish family near Los Angeles, California and earned her B.A. in history from University of California at Los Angeles in 1971. After traveling through Europe, North Africa and Asia for one and a half years, she received a teaching credential and went to the University of Southern California to do post-graduate work in education while working as a teacher in the Los Angeles City School System. In 1975, she attended a meditation course given by Lama Thubten Yeshe and Kyabje Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, and subsequently went to Kopan Monastery in Nepal to continue studying Buddhism. In 1977 she was ordained as a Buddhist nun by Kyabje Ling Rinpoche in Dharamsala, and in 1986 she received bhikshuni (full) ordination in Taiwan. Chodron has studied and practiced Buddhism in the Tibetan tradition extensively in India and Nepal under the guidance of the 14th Dalai Lama, Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche, Lama Thubten Yeshe, Thubten Zopa Rinpoche and other Tibetan masters and for three years at Dorje Pamo Monastery in France. She directed the spiritual program at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa in Italy for nearly two years, was resident teacher at Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore, [1] and for 10 years was spiritual director and resident teacher at Dharma Friendship Foundation in Seattle, US. Emphasizing the practical application of the Buddha's teachings in our daily lives, Chodron tries to explain them in ways easily understood and practised by Westerners. She has worked on re-establishing the Bhikshuni lineage of Buddhist nuns, cultivating interfaith dialogue, and Dharma outreach in prisons. She was a co-organizer of Life as a Western Buddhist Nun, an international conference of Western Buddhist nuns held in 1996. She was a participant in the 1993 and 1994 Western Buddhist teachers conferences with the 14th Dalai Lama, and she was instrumental in the creation of the 2007 International Congress on Buddhist Women's Role in the Sangha. She is a member of the Committee for Bhikshuni Ordination and attends the annual Western Buddhist Monastic Gathering in the USA. Keen on interfaith dialogue, she was present during the Jewish delegation's visit to Dharamsala in 1990, which was the basis for Rodger Kamenetz's The Jew in the Lotus, and she attended the Second Gethsemani Encounter in 2002. She has been present at several Mind and Life Institute conferences in which the 14th Dalai Lama dialogues with Western scientists. Chodron travels worldwide to teach the Dharma: North America, Latin America, Israel, Singapore, Malaysia, India, and the former Soviet countries. Seeing the importance and necessity of a monastery for Westerners training in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, she founded Sravasti Abbey, a Buddhist monastery in Newport, Washington, USA, in 2003, and became its abbess. In 2016 she was awarded the Global Bhikkhuni Award, presented by the Chinese Buddhist Bhikkhuni Association of Taiwan.
Cuon sach nay co tua la Rong mo tam hon va phat trien tri tue. Tam hon rong mo chinh la long tu bi va vi tha chan thanh. Long tu bi duoc nang do va hoan thien boi tri tue sang suot - mot tam thuc thanh tinh, trong sang. Su ket hop giua tu bi va tri tue mang lai su phat trien tron ven tiem nang con nguoi, tuc trang thai giac ngo. Tam hon rong mo va tri tue sang suot cho den ngay nay van la thiet yeu nhu cach day hon 2.500 nam, khi Duc Phat Thich-ca Mau-ni lan dau tien chi day phuong phap tu tap cac pham tinh nay. Toi bi cuon hut boi nhung loi Phat day ngay tu ban dau, vi trong do ham chua nhung phuong phap ro rang de ung pho hieu qua voi nhung tinh huong trong doi song hang ngay. Toi da ap dung cac phuong phap che ngu tham lam va san han co ket qua. Tat nhien, viec chuyen hoa tam thuc can phai co thoi gian va chung ta khong nen mong doi nhung dieu ky dieu tuc thi. Tuy vay, khi chung ta dan quen thuoc voi khuynh huong tu bi va thuc tien, thi nhung tinh huong truoc day tung lam ta phien muon se duoc hoa giai va ta cang tang them kha nang lam cho doi song cua ta co y nghia doi voi tha nhan. Duc Phat la mot nha tam ly sau sac, nha tu tuong uyen ao, voi nhung loi day co the giup chung ta hoan thien cuoc song. Nguoi ta khong can phai tu xem minh la Phat tu moi thuc hanh nhung loi day cua ngai. Su thuc hanh tam linh dich thuc vuot qua nhung gioi han cua moi chu thuyet. Nhu duc Dat-lai Lat-ma thuong noi: Long tu bi khong phai tai san rieng cua bat ky mot ton giao hay he thong tin nguong nao. Trong qua trinh giang day cac khia canh tam ly, tu tuong va thien dinh cua dao Phat o nhieu quoc gia, toi thuong duoc yeu cau gioi thieu mot cuon sach hay, de hieu, trinh bay nhung giao ly can ban lien he den doi song hien dai cua the ky 20. Nhung hau nhu chua co cuon sach nao dap ung duoc nhung yeu cau do, du rang da co nhieu tac pham Phat hoc rat tuyet voi. Quyen sach nay duoc bien soan de lap vao khoang trong do. Sach duoc viet bang ngon ngu doi thuong, han che toi da cac thuat ngu hay ngoai ngu. Toi da co gang giai thich mot cach ro rang nhung chu de Phat hoc ma nguoi moi hoc Phat thuong quan tam nhat, cung nhu [nhung chu de] thich hop voi ho nhat hoac de gay nham lan nhat.
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