The middle scope of the lamrim
02 Meditation on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (2025)
Venerable Sangye Khadro 
Stages of the Path 
Mar 8, 2025 A series of teachings on the lamrim for Amitabha Buddhist Centre based on Venerable Khadro's book How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path
- Review of the initial scope of the lamrim
- How the foundational teachings help us on the path
- The middle scope of the lamrim
- Developing renunciation
- Types of unsatisfactory experiences in samsara
- How afflictions and self-grasping trap us
- Three higher trainings in ethical conduct, concentration and wisdom
- Developing renunciation
- Guided lamrim meditation on the faults of the delusions
- Antidotes for problems that arise while doing analytical meditation
- The great scope of the lamrim
- Benefits of developing bodhicitta
- Seeing the kindness of others and seeking to repay them
- Why both method and compassion are necessary for awakening
- Questions and answers
- Analytical meditation and cognitive behavioral psychology
- Different possible meanings for the word “wisdom”
The next teaching in this series:
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.
