Venerable Yeshe Chodron brings the Buddhist faith into our daily lives, revealing the joy and peace that so many followers of the Buddha's teachings have found in their own spiritual awakenings.

When Yeshe Chodron was fourteen, her father died, plunging her into a suicidal depression. At seventeen, she left Australia for the Himalayas to find the meaning of life. After nine years of practice and study as a Buddhist, Sister Yeshe relates her spiritual journey. With tremendous warmth and humor, she writes about how we can all reach peace, happiness, and enlightenment through Tibetan Buddhism in our lives.


Everyday Enlightenment: How to be a Spiritual Warrior at the Kitchen Sink, Yeshe Chodron, HarperCollins, Paperback, 2006, 264 Pages, $18.95

Ayya Yeshe Chodron Samita ASBL > Monks / Nuns > Ayya Yeshe Chodron dec2012-083 Ayya Yeshe is a fully ordained nun since 2001. She is a contemplative, teacher and socially engaged activist and feminist. She is the director of Bodhicitta Foundation India (a charity helping ex �untouchable� Indian economically disadvantaged people). She is also abbess of Bodhicitta Dakini Monastery, Australia. Ayya wrote �Everyday Enlightenment� published by Harper Collins and has 95,000 hits on her sacred chants CD �Dakini.� Ayya�s maxim is: �Dont curse the darkness, light a candle.� (Gandhi). Ayya practices a fusion of Tibetan Buddhism and Theravada and her teachers include Thich Nhat Hanh, Bhante Sujato and the Dalai Lama.