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  • Published: 14 November 2016
  • ISBN: 9781611803648
  • Imprint: Shambhala
  • Format: Paperback
  • RRP: $29.99

Pema Chödrön's Compassion Cards

Teachings for Awakening the Heart in Everyday Life



59 beautifully designed cards on the classic Buddhist practice of lojong for everyday inspiration and contemplation--with instructive commentaries by Pema Chödrön to make the teachings accessible and applicable to contemporary life.

59 beautifully designed cards on the classic Buddhist practice of lojong for everyday inspiration and contemplation--with instructive commentaries by Pema Chödrön to make the teachings accessible and applicable to contemporary life.

Let compassion and fearlessness guide you and you’ll live wisely and effectively in good times and bad. Here Pema Chödrön offers a powerful method to awaken these qualities using a practice called lojong, which has been a primary focus of her teachings and personal practice for many years. In this boxed set, she provides all the tools needed to practice it in your own life. It includes:
* an introduction to the practice
* fifty-nine cards representing the full set of lojong teachings for daily inspiration and contemplation
* practical commentary from Pema on the reverse of each card
* a card stand for easy display
* and an audio download of Pema’s teachings on the related practice of tonglen.

These cards were previously published as part of The Compassion Box.

  • Published: 14 November 2016
  • ISBN: 9781611803648
  • Imprint: Shambhala
  • Format: Paperback
  • RRP: $29.99

About the author

Pema Chodron

PEMA CHODRON is an American Buddhist nun and one of the foremost students of Chögyam Trungpa, the renowned Tibetan meditation master. She is resident teacher at Gampo Abbey, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, the first Tibetan monastery in North America established for Westerners.

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Praise for Pema Chödrön's Compassion Cards

"Perhaps what makes Pema's message resonate so strongly with people, no matter what their religion or spiritual path, is its universality."--O, The Oprah Magazine

"As one of Pema Chödrön's grateful students, I have been learning the most pressing and necessary lesson of all: how to keep opening wider my own heart."--Alice Walker