In 2016 she was awarded the Global Bhikkhuni Award, presented by the Chinese Buddhist Bhikkhuni Association of Taiwan. Practicing Peace in Times of War came out in 2007. That year, Chödrön became a member of The Committee of Western Bhikshunis. No Time to Lose, a commentary on Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, was published in 2005. That year she published her second book, Start Where You Are and in 1996, When Things Fall Apart. During this period, she met Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche and took him as her teacher. In 1994, she became ill with chronic fatigue syndrome, but gradually her health improved. Then, in 1993, she was given the title of acharya when Trungpa's son, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, assumed leadership of his father's Shambhala lineage. Chödrön's first book, The Wisdom of No Escape, was published in 1991.

Chödrön moved to Gampo Abbey in 1984, the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery in North America for Western men and women, and became its first director in 1986. Trungpa appointed Chödrön director of the Boulder Shambhala Center (Boulder Dharmadhatu) in Colorado in the early 1980s. In Hong Kong in 1981 she became the first American in the Vajrayana tradition to become a fully ordained nun or bhikṣuṇī. In 1974, she became a novice Buddhist nun under Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, the sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa. While in the United States she studied with Trungpa Rinpoche in San Francisco. Stupa of Enlightenment at Chodron's Gampo AbbeyĬhödrön began studying with Lama Chime Rinpoche during frequent trips to London over a period of several years. She obtained a bachelor's degree in English literature from Sarah Lawrence College and a master's degree in elementary education from the University of California, Berkeley. She attended Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut, and grew up on a New Jersey farm with an older brother and sister. Early life and education Ĭhödrön was born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown in 1936 in New York City. Chödrön has written several dozen books and audiobooks, and is principal teacher at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia. She is an ordained nun, former acharya of Shambhala Buddhism and disciple of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

Pema Chödrön (པདྨ་ཆོས་སྒྲོན། padma chos sgron “lotus dharma lamp” born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown, July 14, 1936) is an American Tibetan-Buddhist.

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