Mind-generation with Venerable Sangye Khadro, Part 2
Mind-generation with Venerable Sangye Khadro, Part 2
Venerable Sangye Khadro 
Bodhisattva Path 
Oct 9, 2018 Venerable Sangye Khadro finishes teaching on the different kinds of bodhicitta explained in Maitreya’s “Ornament of Clear Realizations” and its commentaries. Click here for a series of slides that accompany these talks.
- Definition of mind-generation (bodhicitta)
- The two aspirations
- Who can generate bodhicitta?
- Aspiring and engaging bodhicitta
- Does a buddha have bodhicitta?
- Conventional and ultimate bodhicitta
- Can bodhicitta be lost?
- When do we get rid of self-cherishing?
- The 22 kinds of bodhicitta
Venerable Sangye Khadro
California-born, Venerable Sangye Khadro ordained as a Buddhist nun at Kopan Monastery in 1974, and is a longtime friend and colleague of Abbey founder Ven. Thubten Chodron. Ven. Sangye Khadro took the full (bhikshuni) ordination in 1988. While studying at Nalanda Monastery in France in the 1980s, she helped to start the Dorje Pamo Nunnery, along with Venerable Chodron. Venerable Sangye Khadro has studied Buddhism with many great masters including Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Lama Yeshe, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey, and Khensur Jampa Tegchok. She began teaching in 1979 and was a resident teacher at Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore for 11 years. She has been resident teacher at the FPMT centre in Denmark since 2016, and from 2008-2015, she followed the Masters Program at the Lama Tsong Khapa Institute in Italy. Venerable Sangye Khadro has authored several books, including the best-selling How to Meditate, now in its 17th printing, which has been translated into eight languages. She has taught at Sravasti Abbey since 2017 and is now a full-time resident.
