Join Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo for an insightful five-part course on changing our lives by changing our minds.
About This Course
The real test of our spiritual practice happens not on the cushion or in the protected space of retreat, but moment-to-moment in daily life, particularly when we find ourselves in uncomfortable situations – how do we respond?
In this five-part course, originally recorded at Colet House in London in 2016, Tibetan Buddhist Nun, Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo explores a question central to all Buddhist spiritual practice – how do we take our spiritual practice out from the protected space of the retreat and apply it in our day-to-day lives?
Much more complicated and uncomfortable, for sure, but it is here, in our everyday application of learning and insights, that is where the real test of our practice lies.
In this course, Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo draws on Atisha’s Lojong Root Verses on Training the Mind.
The Teacher
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo is a bhikṣuṇī in the Drukpa Lineage of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. She is an author, teacher, and founder of the Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery in Himachal Pradesh, India. She is best known for having spent twelve years living in a remote cave in the Himalayas, three of those years in strict meditation retreat.
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo was raised in London and became a Buddhist while still in her teens. At the age of twenty she traveled to India, becoming one of the first Westerners to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun. After completing her 12-year cave retreat, deeply concerned with the plight of Buddhist nuns, she established Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery in Northern India, at the request of her Guru, His Eminence the Eighth Khamtrul Rinpoche. In 2008, His Holiness the 12th Gyalwang Drukpa, head of her Lineage, gave her the title of Jetsunma, meaning Venerable Master, for her spiritual achievements and contributions.
For more details, visit Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo’s biography.
In Collaboration With
This retreat is shared freely with thanks to The Meridian Trust – Tibetan Buddhist Archive.
