Philosopher
Pema Chödrön
Overview
Pema Chödrön (Standard Tibetan: པདྨ་ཆོས་སྒྲོན།, romanized: padma chos sgron, lit. 'lotus dharma lamp'; born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown, July 14, 1936) is an American-born Tibetan Buddhist. She is an ordained nun, former acharya of Shambhala Buddhism and disciple of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Chödrön has written several dozen books and audiobooks, and was principal teacher at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia. She retired in 2020.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Ideas Pema Chödrön discusses
- Chögyam Trungpa
- Bhikkhunī
- Tibetan Buddhism
- University of California, Berkeley
- Buddhism
- Vajrayana
- Catholic Church
- New York City
- Shantideva
- New York (state)
Place in the tradition
Part of Nontheism.