LEVEL 4, 12 THOMAS STREET CHATSWOOD NSW • 02 8250 8163 • noproblems@iprimus.com.au
FOUNDER OF OVERCOMING PROBLEMS PROGRAM
INSTITUTE TEACHER
VENERABLE CHRIS ROBERTS
Tibetan Buddhist Nun
Venerable Chris Roberts is a Tibetan Buddhist Nun and has been studying Tibetan Buddhism since 1980. Her teacher, His Eminence Khejok Tulku Rinpoche is an Abbot, a fully qualified Tibetan Lama and a Tibetan Medical Practitioner. Venerable Chris has been with him from the first day he arrived in Australia in 1986 and is his first student.
Venerable Chris has given guest lectures to a diverse range of organisations, as well as at conferences, both international and Australian. She served on the Cancer Council of NSW Ethics Committee as a minister of religion, and was the Buddhist representative on the Women’s Interfaith Network – Photo History.
In 1992, Rinpoche founded The Australian Institute of Tibetan Medical Practices and asked Venerable Chris to teach Buddhism within the Institute, because Tibetan Medicine is intertwined with Buddhism and based on understanding the mind. Consequently, she taught both Buddhists and non-Buddhists, helping them to overcome their illnesses through learning to address negative states of mind and attitudes. The teachings began to reach people from all walks of life, and the Institute was later renamed the Australian Institute of Tibetan Healing Practices.
Subsequently, Venerable Chris’s programs are very different. She puts the how-to into Buddhism, using techniques and methods that allow westerners to open up awareness, teaching them to overcome problems and make the right decisions.
Venerable Chris has deliberately tried to avoid Tibetan cultural and Western educational influences, and tries to hold the pureness of the teachings with a user-friendly Western style. These classes are not for those who wish to study Buddhism merely intellectually or to collect philosophy, but are for those who want to grow and change in themselves.
Venerable Chris has not studied any Western psychology, psychiatry or therapies, nor has she watered down the Buddhist teachings to suit the Western mind. Instead, she has solely applied Tibetan Buddhism to developing teachings, approaches, techniques and methods that are powerful antidotes, specifically designed for the Western mind and Western problems.