<\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Teaching Buddhism? The first five minutes of this 2006 Bill Moyers interview with Pema Ch\u00f6dr\u00f6n provides a good introduction to Buddhism as its practiced today. And we learn about an extraordinary \u201cBodhisattva warrior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/billmoyers.com\/content\/pema-chadron\/:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">According to the Moyers PBS site<\/a> \u201cAni Pema Ch\u00f6dr\u00f6n is an American <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/buddhism' target='_blank'>Buddhist<\/a> nun and author whose teachings and writings on meditation have helped make Buddhism accessible to a broad Western audience. She currently directs the Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia, Canada, the first Tibetan monastery in North America for Western monastics and lay practitioners.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teaching Buddhism? 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