Mindfulness of death, faults and benefits
16 Middle-Length Lamrim
Venerable Sangye Khadro 
Stages of the Path 
Mar 8, 2024 Part of a series of weekly teachings from Lama Tsongkhapa’s Middle-Length Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment.
- Importance of meditating on the topics in common with persons of lesser capacity and medium capacity
- Two main purposes of the division of stages of path
- Stages of the path shared with persons of lesser capacity
- Mindfulness of death
- Disadvantages of not remembering death
- Benefits of remembering death
- Proper way to generate fear of death and future lives
Refer to the handout for the teaching: 16 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.
