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Pema Chodron, Spiritual Teacher/Artist of the Spring Quarter 2006

Pema Chodron was voted by the members and visitors of Integrative Spirituality as our Spiritual Teacher/Artist for the Spring Quarter 2006

pema chodronPema Chodron was voted by the members and visitors of Integrative Spirituality as our Spiritual Teacher/Artist for Spring 2006.

 

Ani 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, Ani 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 Ani Pema received her ordination from him.

Ani Pema first met her root guru, Chagyam 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 bikshuni ordination in the Chinese lineage of Buddhism in 1981 in Hong Kong.

Ani Pema served as the director of the Shambhala Center, Karma Dzong, in Boulder until moving in 1984 to rural Cape Breton, Nova Scotia to be the director of Gampo Abbey. Chagyam Trungpa Rinpoche gave her explicit instructions on establishing this monastery for western monks and nuns.

Ani 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.

Ani Pema is interested in helping establish Tibetan Buddhist monasticism in the West, as well in continuing her work with western Buddhists of all traditions, sharing ideas and teachings. She has written seven books: Tonglen: Path to Transformation (Kalapa Publications), edited by Tingdzin Otro plus "The Wisdom of No Escape", "Start Where You Are", "When Things Fall Apart", "The Places that Scare You", "Comfortable with Uncertainty" and "No Time to Loose", all are available from Shambhala Publications. She is currently working on a new book "Practicing Peace in Times of War" that will be published by Shambhala Publications in 2006.

 

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Please visit www.pemachodron.org and www.gampoabbey.org for more links and information on Pema Chodron’s teachings, writings, meditations and more.air max 90 essential dress