Event ID: 3519
Event type: Webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: Part 1 of the teaching, recorded at Sravasti Abbey in English, will be available for viewing from Friday, November 22nd, 2024, coinciding with the auspicious occasion of Lhabab Duchen – the anniversary of Lord Buddha’s Descent from the Heaven of Thirty-Three, when it is said that the merit of any good deeds is multiplied many times. A summary text referred to in the teaching is here, please copy and paste the link below:
https://thubtenchodron.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Heart-Sutra-outline.pdf
Part 2 of the teaching is due to be available in late January, 2025.
Event details: Venerable Thubten Chodron will give a comprehensive teaching on ‘The Heart Sutra’, one of the most cited and widely known Buddhist texts. The central topic of ‘The Heart Sutra’ is the Buddhist understanding of the ultimate nature of mind and phenomena. The sutra, written in the form of a dialogue between the monk Shariputra (one of the two principal disciples of the Buddha Shakyamuni) and the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, explains how a bodhisattva should meditate in order to realize the ultimate nature of reality, often referred to as ‘emptiness’.
Venerable Thubten Chodron is an American Buddhist nun and the founder and abbess of Sravasti Abbey, a Buddhist monastery in Newport, Washington, USA. Ordained since 1977, she is a student of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Tsenzhap Serkong Rinpoche, and several other Tibetan lamas. She assisted His Holiness the Dalai Lama with the writing and publication of The Library of Wisdom and Compassion, a multi-volume series on the Buddhist Path. Visit thubtenchodron.org for a media library of her teachings, and sravastiabbey.org to learn more about the Abbey.
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