How to stay ordained
Venerable Sangye Khadro 
Monastic Life 
Jul 5, 2023 A talk given for the International Mahayana Institute sangha in Summer 2023.
- Difficulties in keeping monastic precepts
- Four root precepts
- Killing a human being
- Stealing
- Sexual activity
- Lying about spiritual attainments
- How to maintain your precepts
- Strong determination
- Respect for the buddha
- Introspective awareness
- Dangers on the path
- Jealousy, resentment, competition, doubt, loss of a teacher
- Keep the precepts until you die
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 Venerable Thubten Chodron. She took bhikshuni (full) 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 with many Buddhist masters including Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Lama Yeshe, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey, and Khensur Jampa Tegchok. At her teachers’ request, she began teaching in 1980 and has since taught in countries around the world, occasionally taking time off for personal retreats. She served as resident teacher in Buddha House, Australia, Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore, and the FPMT centre in Denmark. From 2008-2015, she followed the Masters Program at the Lama Tsong Khapa Institute in Italy. Venerable has authored a number books found here, including the best-selling How to Meditate. She has taught at Sravasti Abbey since 2017 and is now a full-time resident.
