Chödrön, P.

Chödrön, P. on the DRL

Authors of English Works • Ordained (Monks and Nuns) • Western Buddhist Teachers

Deirdre Blomfield-Brown

English Phonetics	Pema Chödrön

Dates

Birth:	1936/07/14
Place of birth:	New York

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

Day
Month
Gender
Element
Animal
Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

Day
Month
Gender
Element
Animal
Rab Jyung

Contact information

Website:	pemachodronfoundation.org

About

Primary Language:	English

Primary Affiliation (Workplace)

Gampo Abbey

Teachers

Trungpa, Chögyam · Dzigar Kongtrul, 2nd

Biographical Information

Pema Chödrön is an American Tibetan Buddhist. She is an ordained nun, former acharya of Shambhala Buddhism and disciple of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Chödrön has written several dozen books and audiobooks, and is principal teacher at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia, Canada. (Source Accessed Jan 7, 2021)

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• Chödrön, P. on the LIB

The disciples of the Buddha who aspire to attain individual liberation or nirvāṇa. The final goal of the Hearers is to become an arhat, a state in which one has totally eliminated the inner problems of attachment, hatred and ignorance, the main causes for rebirth in this cycle of existence. There are four stages of a śrāvaka path including eight phases.