At the request of the Sixteenth Karmapa, she received the full bikshuni ordination in the Chinese lineage of Buddhism in 1981 in Hong Kong.Īni Pema served as the director of Karma Dzong in Boulder, Colorado, until moving in 1984 to rural Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, to be the director of Gampo Abbey. Lama Chime encouraged her to work with Rinpoche, and it was with him that she ultimately made her most profound connection, studying with him from 1974 until his death in 1987. Pema first met her root guru, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, in 1972. His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa came to Scotland at that time, and Ani Pema received her ordination from him. She became a novice nun in 1974 while studying with Lama Chime in London. While in her mid-thirties, Ani Pema traveled to the French Alps and encountered Lama Chime Rinpoche, with whom she studied for several years.
Pema has two children and three grandchildren. She taught as an elementary school teacher for many years in both New Mexico and California. She attended Miss Porter’s School in Connecticut and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. Everyone, everywhere, all over the globe, has these qualities and can call on them to help themselves and others.” Pema shares insights and exercises from her lifetime of practice that we can immediately put to use in our lives to awaken these essential qualities and help us to take a bold leap toward a new way of living-one that will bring about positive transformation for ourselves and for our troubled world.Īni Pema Chödrön was born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown in 1936, in New York City. “They are natural intelligence, natural warmth, and natural openness. “This path entails uncovering three basic human qualities,” explains Pema. So how can we get unstuck? Drawing on time-honored Buddhist teachings on shenpa (all the attachments and compulsions that cause us suffering), Pema Chödrön shows how certain habits of mind tend to “hook” us and get us stuck in states of anger, blame, self-hatred, addiction, and so much more-and, most of all, how we can liberate ourselves from them.
All are available from Shambhala Publications.Ever feel trapped in the same old habits and painful emotions time and time again? These are patterns we all face, and sometimes they feel impossible to shake. She has written several books: The Wisdom of No Escape, Start Where You Are, When Things Fall Apart, The Places that Scare You, No Time to Lose, Practicing Peace in Times of War and most recently Taking the Leap – Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears. Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche gave her explicit instructions on establishing this monastery for western monks and nuns.Īni Pema currently teaches in the United States and Canada and plans for an increased amount of time in solitary retreat under the guidance of Venerable Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche.Īni Pema is interested in helping establish Tibetan Buddhist monasticism in the West, as well in continuing her work with western Buddhists of all traditions, sharing ideas and teachings. At the request of the Sixteenth Karmapa, she received the full bikshuni ordination in the Chinese lineage of Buddhism in 1981 in Hong Kong.Īni Pema served as the director of the Karma Dzong, in Boulder, Colorado until moving in 1984 to rural Cape Breton, Nova Scotia to be the first director of Gampo Abbey.
His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa came to England at that time, and Ani Pema received her ordination from him.Īni Pema first met her root guru, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, in 1972. Pema Chödrön was born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown in 1936, in New York City. Photo by Robin Holland Gelongma Pema Chödrön
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