Author

Books by Pema Chödrön

Pema Chödrön is an American Buddhist nun ordained in the Tibetan tradition. Born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown in 1936, she studied with the Tibetan teacher Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and later with Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. She served for many years as director of Gampo Abbey, a Buddhist monastery in Nova Scotia. Her other books include The Places That Scare You, Start Where You Are, and Comfortable with Uncertainty. She is among the most widely read Western interpreters of Tibetan Buddhist practice, known for making traditional teachings accessible without flattening them.