Review: Tonglen practice
61 Middle-Length Lamrim
Venerable Thubten Jigme 
Stages of the Path 
Mar 27, 2025 Part of a series of weekly teachings on Lama Tsongkhapa's Middle-Length Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment.
- Overview of the steps in the combined 11 point method of developing bodhicitta
- The source and lineages of tonglen (taking and giving) practice
- Doing preliminaries and building an understanding to prepare for doing tonglen
- Questions and comments on tonglen
- Guided tonglen meditation
- Questions and comments on the meditation
Venerable Thubten Jigme
Venerable Jigme met Venerable Chodron in 1998 at Cloud Mountain Retreat Center. She took refuge in 1999 and attended Dharma Friendship Foundation in Seattle. She moved to the Abbey in 2008 and took sramanerika and sikasamana vows with Venerable Chodron as her preceptor in March 2009. She received bhikshuni ordination at Fo Guang Shan in Taiwan in 2011. Before moving to Sravasti Abbey, Venerable Jigme (then Dianne Pratt) worked as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner in private practice in Seattle. In her career as a nurse, she worked in hospitals, clinics and educational settings. At the Abbey, Ven. Jigme is the Guest Master, manages the prison outreach program and oversees the video program.
