Transforming problems into the path
Good Grief Retreat (2023) Part 3
Venerable Sangye Khadro 
Dealing with Grief 
Oct 8, 2023 A short retreat on grief, hosted online by Sravasti Abbey in October 2023 with the book Good Grief by Granger Westburg as a resource.
- Grief as an affliction: evidence from mind and mental factor texts
- Grief as the near enemy of compassion
- Grief as a variety of different experiences
- The four distorted conceptions
- Transforming problems into the path
- Mindfulness
- Refuge
- Remembering impermanence
- Karma
- Compassion
- Taking and giving
- Can it be remedied?
- Meditation on compassion
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.
