Welcome to Episodes 20-22 of the Vibe with Venerables series, where we talk “live” to Buddhist masters together. Full listing of all Vibe with Venerables episodes here.
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Episodes 20-22. Equanimity: Staying Steady in Samsara
Venerable Thubten Chodron and Sravasti Abbey monastics will guide us in understanding the immeasurable quality of equanimity. How do we maintain a balanced mind, free from attachment and aversion, amidst life’s constant ebb and flow? We explore how to awaken to the profound realization that the mind, like the vast sky, is untouched by the storms of life. Discover how cultivating equanimity allows us to experience life fully, with serenity, wisdom, and clarity, even in the face of challenges, success, or failure. This series will guide us in deepening our practice of balance and resilience, ultimately leading to freedom of the heart, where the mind remains unshaken and peaceful, no matter what arises.
Each Venerable speaker will share their insights on how to deepen this immeasurable quality, making it an integral part of our lives.
Episode 20, with Venerable Thubten Chodron
5 October 2025 (Sunday), 5pm US Pacific Time, 8pm US Eastern
6 October 2025 (Monday), 1am London, 8am Singapore, 11am Sydney (Timezone converter) [Register here]
Episode 21, with Venerable Thubten Lamsel
12 October 2025 (Sunday), 5pm US Pacific Time, 8pm US Eastern
13 October 2025 (Monday), 1am London, 8am Singapore, 11am Sydney (Timezone converter) [Register here]
Episode 22, with Venerable Thubten Monlam
19 October 2025 (Sunday), 5pm US Pacific Time, 8pm US Eastern
20 October 2025 (Monday), 1am London, 8am Singapore, 11am Sydney (Timezone converter) [Register here]
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About the Teachers
Bhikshuni Venerable Thubten Chodron, Founder & Abbess, Sravasti Abbey
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Establishing Sravasti Abbey fulfills a long-held dream for Venerable Thubten Chodron (Venerable 德林 De Lin in Chinese): to train Western ordained sangha in the Buddha’s teachings. Her vision includes doing prayers and practices in English and using technology to spread the Dharma. She brings her core values of gender equality, social engagement, and care for the environment to the Abbey community.
A native of the U.S., Ven. Chodron, is particularly qualified to teach Western monastics. She trained in Asia for many years, receiving novice ordination from Kyabje Ling Rinpoche in 1977 and full ordination in Taiwan in 1986. Her teachers include His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, and Lama Thubten Yeshe and many others.
In addition to founding Sravasti Abbey, Ven. Chodron is a well-known author and teacher. She has published many books on Buddhist philosophy and meditation, including ten volumes in The Library of Wisdom and Compassion, co-authored with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, with whom she has studied for nearly fifty years.
Venerable Thubten Lamsel, Bhikshuni, Sravasti Abbey
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Ven. Thubten Lamsel began studying the Dharma in 2011 at The Dhargyey Buddhist Centre in Dunedin, New Zealand. When she began exploring the possibility of ordination in 2014, a friend referred her to the Preparing for Ordination booklet by Venerable Thubten Chodron.
Soon after, Ven. Lamsel made contact with the Abbey, tuning in weekly for the livestreamed teachings and offering service from afar. In 2016 she visited for the month-long Winter Retreat. Feeling like she had found the supportive monastic environment she had been looking for, under the close guidance of her spiritual mentor, she requested to come back for training. Returning in January 2017, Ven. Lamsel took anagarika precepts on March 31st. In the most fantastic circumstances, she was able to take her sramaneri and shikshamana vows during the Living Vinaya in the West course on February 4, 2018.
She received bhikshuni ordination at Fo En Si Temple in Taiwan in March 2024. At the Abbey her duties include facilitating the broadcasting and archival of live teachings, prison outreach, event management, and helping in the library. When opportunities arise, she enjoys offering meditation workshops and introductory classes on Buddhism in the local community and online.
Venerable Thubten Monlam, Bhikshuni, Sravasti Abbey
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Venerable Thubten Monlam began her Dharma journey in 2014 when a friend suggested she may be interested in meditation and Dharma talks happening at a new Dharma center in her hometown of Carbondale, Colorado. Ven. Monlam was inspired by the teachings and heard them as specific instructions to develop love and compassion.
About a year later, after attending a day-long retreat about Chenrezig, the Buddha of Compassion, Ven. Monlam wanted more information about the practice and the concept deity yoga. This led her to one of Venerable Chodron’s books, Cultivating A Kind Heart: The Yoga Method of Chenrezig. Ven. Monlam decided to visit Sravasti Abbey later that year.
Ven. Monlam continued to study and practice while working as the director of a small non-profit that supports young people to develop self-confidence, self-expression, and leadership skills through community radio broadcasting.
Over the next six years, she deepened her practice and continued to visit the Abbey before moving here in June of 2021. She received bhikshini ordination at Fo En Si Temple in Taiwan in March 2024.
At the Abbey, Ven. Monlam is part of the community care team and assists in the kitchen. She is also involved with editing Dharma dissemination materials.
Ven. Monlam deeply resonates with the bodhisattva aspiration to be of the most benefit to all beings, helping all beings create the causes to be free from suffering and abide in lasting peace and happiness. She sees the importance of developing her own good qualities so that she can support others in doing the same.
Ven. Monlam is thrilled to be part of the Sravasti Abbey community where she sees her own rapid growth with increasing open-heartedness and seeing others with eyes of kindness and compassion.
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