The importance of a teacher
05 Middle-Length Lamrim
Venerable Sangye Khadro 
Stages of the Path 
Dec 1, 2023 Part of a series of weekly teachings from Lama Tsongkhapa’s Middle-Length Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment.
- Ten qualities of a spiritual mentor
- Discipline, calm and peace
- Superior qualities, diligence, rich in scriptures and understood suchness
- Eloquent, loving and never disheartened
- Essential qualities to look for in a spiritual teacher
- Different types of teachers
- Qualities of a student
- Impartial, intelligent and interested
Refer to the handout for the teaching: 05 Middle Length Lamrim
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.
