圖丹卻准比丘尼，第一代到亞洲求法並剃度出家的美國人之一，美國第一個在藏傳佛教給西方人受培訓的道場－「舍衛精舍」的開山住持。

Venerable Thubten Chodron is one of the first generation of Americans to study the Dharma in Asia and ordain as a Buddhist nun. The founder of Sravasti Abbey, the first training monastery for Westerners in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition in the US.