![]() In the spring of 1989, she led a monthlong dathun meditation session at Gampo Abbey - the renowned Buddhist monastery of which Chödrön is founding director, founded in 1983 by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, her root guru. ![]() For the generations since Alan Watts - who began introducing Eastern philosophy in the West in the 1950s and sparked a counterculture to consumerism seeking to transcend the illusions of the separate self - Chödrön has become the most widely beloved translator of Eastern ideas into Western life. ![]() July 14, 1936) - a generous senior teacher in the Buddhist contemplative tradition of Shambhala, ordained Buddhist nun, and prolific author - is one of our era’s most tireless champions of a mindful wholeheartedness as the essential life-force of the human experience. ![]()
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