Thubten Samten Chodron is a Buddhist monastic in the Kagyu/Nyingma lineage. Prior to ordination, Samten worked as a hospital Chaplain, Teacher (pre-school to university) and a Therapist, including work in a women’s prison, a rape crisis centre, and in private practice. She is presently a student of Minling Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche and of Ven. Pema Chodron, with whom she spends part of every year at Pema Chodron’s monastery in Cape Breton, NS.