Sister yeshe chodron biography

Sister Yeshe is a young Australian Buddhist nun in the Tibetan Vajrayana tradition.
Yeshe Chodron was the sister of Khyentse Chokyi Wangchuk (mkhyen brtse chos It was there, in 1954, that Namkhai Norbu interviewed him for his biography.
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Program: At Odds With Everything: Becoming a Buddhist Nun

TIBETAN CHANT

Rachael Kohn:

In the Darkness of existence,
I found a light.
In the heart of pain,
I found something bright.

That something was Tibetan Buddhism for Sister Yeshe Chodron, who often felt at odds with the world, and so became a Buddhist nun.

Hello, this is The Spirit of Things on ABC Radio National. I'm Rachael Kohn.

Here's Sister Yeshe doing what Tibetan Buddhists do best: chant!

Ven. Yeshe Chodron: So this chant is invoking the blessings of Padmasambhava, who is the archetypal enlightened being and guide. And basically when we listen to this chant, we just invoke that which we hold most sacred and request blessings and guidance and wisdom. And we wish all beings well, we hold love in our heart and we radiate loving kindness to the entire world.

CHANTS

Rachael Kohn: Sister Yeshe is still in her twenties, and yet she's remarkably assured about the path she's taken, and the responsibilities that it places upon her. She's already an author of a book on Buddhism,

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Khandro Tsering Chodron

Khandro Tsering Chodron (mkha' 'gro tshe ring chos sgron b.1929), the spiritual wife of Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro, is universally acknowledged as one of the foremost female practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism alive today. She was born into the Aduk Lakar family of Kham Trehor, an ancient family of benefactors who supported many monasteries and teachers in Tibet dating back to the time of Je Tsongkhapa. Her mother was Dechen Tso, a princess of Ling, who was married to the two Lakar brothers Tutob Namgyal and Sonam Tobgyal. She became Jamyang Khyentse's spiritual wife in 1948, at a time when he was in poor health and many of his disciples were urging him to take a consort to prolong his life. For the next eleven years she served as his attendant and devoted companion, receiving countless teachings and transmissions, requesting practices and prayers and putting questions to him in the form of songs. Together with her elder sister, Tsering Wangmo whose husband Tsewang Paljor was Jamyang Khyentse's private secretary, the young Sogyal Rinpoche, Lama Chokde

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Photo by Liane Graf

This biography, compiled by Adriano Clemente, was recently published online on The Treasury of Lives website, a biographical encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalayan region. We are happy to publish it with the kind permission of the author and the Director and Chief Editor of The Treasury of Lives.

Chögyal Namkhai Norbu was born in a small village called Geug (dge ‘ug) near Changra (lcang ra) in Derge, Kham, in 1938, on the thirteenth day of the tenth lunar month of the earth-tiger year. Later in life he chose to mark his birthday on December 8. His father, Tsewang Namgyal (tshe dbang rnam rgyal, 1889–1962) of the Trokhe (gro khe) clan from Kamthok (skam thog), was a government official of the Derge kingdom; his mother, Yeshe Chödrön (ye shes chos sgron, 1904–1965), belonged to the Ngonatsang (sngo rna tshang), one of the most ancient families in Derge. She was the niece of Jamyang Chökyi Wangpo (‘jam dbyangs chos kyi dbang po, 1893–1908) and the sister of his reincarnation, Khyentse Chökyi Wangchuk (mkhyen brt