Only dharma will benefit at death
18 Middle-Length Lamrim
Venerable Sangye Khadro 
Stages of the Path 
Mar 22, 2024 Part of a series of weekly teachings from Lama Tsongkhapa’s Middle-Length Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment.
- Meditation on the points related time of death is uncertain
- At the time time of death nothing but dharma helps
- We need to separate from friends and relatives, possessions and wealth and body
- Reflecting on death and reducing attachment to this life
- How dharma practice helps when we live and when we die
- Practices to cultivate mindfulness of death
- Cultivating a concern for the future lives
- Working with the doubt regarding rebirth and future lives
Refer to the handout for the teaching: 18 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.
