70 Topics: Mahayana path of meditation
70 Topics: Mahayana path of meditation
Online teachings hosted by Thubten Norbu Ling in New Mexico, USA as part of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) Basic Program.
- Meditation on the faults of self-centeredness
- Coarse and subtle self-centeredness
- How compassion for ourselves supports us in generating bodhicitta
- Mahayana Path of Meditation
- Chapter 2, Topic 5: Function of the Path of Meditation
- Chapter 2, Topic 6: Mahayana Path of Meditation of Belief
- Chapter 2, Topic 7: Benefits of the Mahayana Path of Meditation of Belief
- Chapter 2, Topic 8: Path of Meditation of Dedication
- Chapter 2, Topic 9: Path of Meditation of Rejoicing
- Chapter 2, Topic 10: Path of Meditation of Achieving
- Chapter 2, Topic 11: Path of Meditation of Purity
- 9 levels of the path of meditation
- Summary of topics
- Questions and Answers
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.