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The Places That Scare You

Pema Chödrön

  • 192 pages · about 3 hours
  • First published 2001
  • 8 editions
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1 About this book

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Good for readers who want: Buddhism and spirituality.

  • Buddhism
  • Spiritual life
  • Religious life, buddhism
  • Buddhism, doctrines
  • Doctrines
  • Religious life
  • Fear
  • Religion

2 About Pema Chödrön

Born 1936

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.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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