Quote of the day
His own image... was no longer the reflection of a clumsy, dirty, gray bird, ugly and offensive. He himself was a swan! Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
Thubten Chodron
Born: September 18, 1950 (age 75)
Bio: Thubten Chodron, born Cheryl Greene, is an American Tibetan Buddhist nun, author, teacher, and the founder and abbess of Sravasti Abbey, the only Tibetan Buddhist training monastery for Western nuns and monks in the United States.
Known for:
- Buddhism for Beginners (2001)
- Working with anger (2001)
- Taming the Mind (2004)
- Open heart, clear mind (1990)
- Guided Meditations on the Stages of the Path (2007)








