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Thubten Chodron (born Cheryl Greene) is an American Tibetan Buddhist nun and a central figure in reinstating the Bhikshuni (tib. Gelongma) ordination of women. She is a student of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche, Lama Thubten Yeshe, Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, and other Tibetan masters. ==Biography== Born in 1950, Venerable 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. Venerable has studied and practiced Buddhism in the Tibetan tradition extensively in India and Nepal under the guidance of His Holiness 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,〔 and for 10 years was spiritual director and resident teacher at (Dharma Friendship Foundation ) in Seattle.〔 Emphasizing the practical application of the Buddha’s teachings in our daily lives, Venerable is especially skilled at explaining them in ways easily understood and practiced by Westerners. She is well known for her warm, humorous, and lucid teachings and for her work in 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 His Holiness 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 His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama dialogues with Western scientists. Venerable 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, and is currently the abbess there. Many of her talks can be found on the web in both (written and audio form ) as well as on (Youtube ) and (Livestream ). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thubten Chodron」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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