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Friday Mar 04, 2016
Friday Mar 04, 2016
On
today's Heart Of Mind Radio, host Kathryn Davis features the work of
Pema Chödrön, with audio segments offered by SoundsTrue.com. Also learn
more about her work at http://pemachodronfoundation.org
Pema
Chodron was born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown in 1936, in New York City. She
attended Miss Porter’s School in Connecticut and graduated from the
University of California at Berkeley. She taught as an elementary school
teacher for many years in both New Mexico and California. Pema has two
children and three grandchildren.
While in her mid-thirties, Pema
traveled to the French Alps and encountered Lama Chime Rinpoche, with
whom she studied for several years. She became a novice nun in 1974
while studying with Lama Chime in London. His Holiness the Sixteenth
Karmapa came to England at that time, and Pema received her ordination
from him.
Pema first met her root teacher, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche,
in 1972. Lama Chime encouraged her to work with Rinpoche, and it was
with him that she ultimately made her most profound connection, studying
with him from 1974 until his death in 1987. At the request of the
Sixteenth Karmapa, she received the full monastic ordination in the
Chinese lineage of Buddhism in 1981 in Hong Kong.
Pema served as the
director of Karma Dzong, in Boulder, until moving in 1984 to rural Cape
Breton, Nova Scotia to be the director of Gampo Abbey. Chogyam Trungpa
Rinpoche asked her to work towards the establishment of a monastery for
western monks and nuns.
Pema currently teaches in the United States
and Canada and plans for an increased amount of time in solitary retreat
under the guidance of Venerable Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche.
Pema is
interested in helping establish the monastic tradition in the West, as
well in continuing her work with Buddhists of all traditions, sharing
ideas and teachings. She has written several books: “The Wisdom of No
Escape”, “Start Where You Are”, “When Things Fall Apart”, “The Places
that Scare You”, “No Time to Lose” and “Practicing Peace in Times of
War”, and most recently, “Smile at Fear”.
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