Transforming the Heart: The Buddhist Way to Joy and Courage
Born in 1930, Khensur Jampa Thegchok became a monk at the age of eight. He studied major Buddhist treatises at Sera Monastic University in Tibet for 14 years before fleeing his homeland in 1959. The former abbot of the Jé College of Sera Monastic University in India, he was also a beloved teacher at several FPMT centers including the Masters Program at Istituto Lama Tsongkhapa in Italy and Nalanda Monastery in France.Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron became a Buddhist in 1975 after attending a course given by Lama Thubten Yeshe and Zopa Rinpoche. She became a nun in 1977 and received full ordination as a bhiksuni in 1986. She has been resident teacher at Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore and at Dharma Friendship Foundation in Seattle. Active in interfaith dialogue, she also does Dharma outreach in prisons and teaches the Dharma worldwide. She is founder and abbess of Sravasti Abbey, a Buddhist monastery in eastern Washington State. She became a student of Geshe Jampa Tegchok in 1982 and studied under his guidance since then. In addition to editing his book Transforming Adversity into Joy and Courage, she is the author of Buddhism for Beginners and other Dharma books. Please see thubtenchodron.org and sravastiabbey.org.