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Venerable Thubten Dondrub (Neil Huston) is the main teacher of the Hospice of Mother Tara Buddhist Centre in Bunbury and resident Teacher at Hayagriva Buddhist Centre in Perth.
Ordained as a Buddhist monk for more than 30 years, he is a learned monk who has many years experience of teaching and meditation.
Born and educated in Adelaide, Venerable Dondrub graduated with a BA in History from Flinders University in 1969. Having met Buddhism in early 1976, he attended teachings in June 1976 given by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the Chenrezig Institute in Queensland. He received his rabjung and getsul ordination from Geshe Thubten Loden in 1977 and later that year established Bodhicitta House in Brisbane.
He was Assistant Director of the Chenrezig Institute from 1978 to 1980 and received his gelong ordination from Lama Zopa Rinpoche in 1979. He then was attendant to Geshe Ngawang Legden, Abbot of the Sera-Je Monastery, during his travel to Europe in 1981. He was also attendant to Lama Zopa Rinpoche (1983-1986). From 1988 through to 1991 he established the FPMT centre in Taipei, Taiwan. He has taught in more than a dozen countries around the world and was Director of Nalanda Monastery in France from 1992 to 1993.
He has received teachings and initiations from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Kyabje Ling Rinpoche, Song Rinpoche, Lama Zopa Rinpoche and other great Masters of the Gelug tradition.
Between 1987 and 2010 he taught eight of the famous month-long Kopan Courses in Nepal. He
is now on the Senior Sangha Council of the International Mahayana Institute (IMI) and representative of the IMI in Australia - the organisation of monks and nuns connected to the FPMT.
Venerable Dondrub is well known for his powerful and explicit teachings with an emphasis on how to use the Buddhist teachings to change the mind.
He places importance of the need to not only study the complete path, but to make
it part of our daily life.
"The more you have some degree of detachment, altruism, good heart and some insight into dependent arising, the more peaceful, contented and effective you are.
You feel at ease and people are at ease with you. Things go more smoothly. Of course most of us aren't very successful in applying all the teachings and we fail to be constantly mindful in applying them, but there is no doubt that these methods work whenever we use them.
Buddhist meditation shows us directly that everything we experience in our daily life ultimately comes from our own mind and that we have the power to change our mind. As our mind changes we change our whole environment and the way we perceive it. Perhaps the best of all are meditations on developing a sense of connectedness with all living beings, which helps us develop loving kindness, compassion and tolerance. These are essential for relating to the different kinds of people we constantly confront."
"The more you have some degree of detachment, altruism, good heart and some insight into dependent arising, the more peaceful, contented and effective you are”

Venerable Thubten Dondrub

Based on the principles of love and compassion, Hospice of Mother Tara exists to provide on-going support for the practice of Buddhist Teachings and to assist those who are experiencing pain or
illness by providing holistic care and an atmosphere of calm.