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| Drepung Loseling Monastery, Inc. |
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| Beyond Bias: The Path of Joy & Equanimity |
| by Venerables Thubten Damcho & Thubten Rinchen |
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| Thursday, May 7, 2026 • 7:00 pm |
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| How do we navigate a complex world with the steady heart of a bodhisattva? While love and compassion are the familiar gateways, Joy and Equanimity are the pillars that stabilize a long-term practice. Join visiting nuns Venerables Thubten Damcho and Thubten Rinchen as they lead an exploration into the more nuanced pair of these “Four Abodes”: Empathic Joy and Equanimity. |
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We will discuss how to move past the subtle biases of “us vs. them” and how to cultivate a joy that isn’t dependent on our own personal gains. This evening is designed to help you deepen your existing practice, moving from intellectual understanding to a lived experience of a balanced, unshakable mind. |
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Ven. Thubten Damcho is a Buddhist nun residing at Sravasti Abbey, one of the first Tibetan Buddhist training monasteries in the United States. Born and raised in Singapore, she graduated from Princeton University in 2006 and worked as a high school teacher and public policy analyst in the Singapore government before returning to the U.S. to take novice ordination in 2013. is a Buddhist nun residing at Sravasti Abbey, one of the first Tibetan Buddhist training monasteries in the United States. Born and raised in Singapore, she graduated from Princeton University in 2006 and worked as a high school teacher and public policy analyst in the Singapore government before returning to the U.S. to take novice ordination in 2013. |
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Venerable Damcho serves as assistant to Sravasti Abbey’s founder, author and well-known Buddhist teacher Venerable Thubten Chodron and manages her website, ThubtenChodron.org. Her other duties include translating texts on Buddhist monastic discipline from Chinese into English, and she served as the Chinese-English oral interpreter at full ordination programs in Taiwan in 2019 and 2024. She has also translated short sutras from Tibetan into English for 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha. |
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She has given Dharma talks in the U.S., India, Brazil, and Singapore. You can watch the talks that she has given at Sravasti Abbey here. Learn more about Sravasti Abbey at SravastiAbbey.org. |
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Ven. Thubten Rinchen met the Dharma at the Drepung Loseling Monastery in India in 2015, and then studied and practiced at the Drepung Loseling center in Atlanta, where she took refuge with Geshe Dadul Namgyal. She taught physics at Agnes Scott College and was involved in the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative, which provided the opportunity to travel to the Tibetan monasteries in India to teach physics to monks and nuns every summer from 2015 to 2019. |
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After meeting Venerable Thubten Chodron during an India trip in 2016, she briefly visited Sravasti Abbey twice. Then, in 2019 she returned for a longer stay that included attending the Exploring Monastic Life program. She moved to the Abbey in August, 2020, and soon began formal monastic training as an anagarika. After a fruitful discernment period, she requested ordination, receiving novice and shikshamana precepts from Venerable Chodron in August, 2021. In 2024 she traveled to Taiwan and received full (bhikshuni) ordination at Fo En Si. |
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At the Abbey, she maintains SravastiAbbey.org, supports IT, pays the bills, and grows vegetables. She’s had the opportunity to share the Buddha’s teachings in Newport, Spokane, Atlanta, and online. |
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| Suggested donation: |
$15 (Note: no one will be turned away due to lack of funds) |
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| Location: |
In-Person at Drepung Loseling Monastery - Meditation Hall |
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1781 Dresden Drive • Brookhaven, GA 30319 |
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Drepung Loseling Monastery, Inc.
1781 Dresden Drive • Atlanta, GA 30319
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