How to meditate: An interview with Venerable Sangye Khadro
How to meditate: An interview with Venerable Sangye Khadro
Venerable Tenzin Namdrol interviews Venerable Sangye Khadro as part of the “How to Meditate” course hosted by Centro Shiwa Lha in Brazil. With translation into Portuguese.
- How she discovered buddhism and became a nun
- About the book How to Meditate
- Meditation for Buddhists and non-Buddhists
- Benefits of meditation
- Main obstacles and difficulties in meditation
- Grasping and attachment
- Expectations
- Two types of meditation: analytic and concentration
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.