Patience and joyous action
Lam Rim: Study, reflect, meditate with Ven. Sangye Khadro – Session 22
Venerable Sangye Khadro 
Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience 
Nov 11, 2021 Part of a series of online teachings hosted by Thubten Norbu Ling Center in Sante Fe, New Mexico.
- The perfection of patience – three types
- The patience of avoiding anger at those who harm
- The patience of accepting suffering
- The forbearance required to sustain Dharma practice
- The perfection of joyous effort
- Types of joyous effort
- The perfections of concentration and wisdom
- The four ways of gathering disciples
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.
