Four virtuous practices
62 Middle-Length Lamrim
Venerable Sangye Khadro 
Stages of the Path 
Apr 3, 2025 Part of a series of weekly teachings on Lama Tsongkhapa's Middle-Length Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment.
Refer to the slides for the teaching.
- Meditation on being separated from bodhicitta in future lives
- The meaning of deceit and shiftiness
- Training in adopting the four virtuous practices
- Eliminate lying
- Abide with an honest and noble attitude
- Generate the perception of all bodhisattvas as being like the Buddha and praise them
- Cause sentient beings to attain complete enlightenment
- The method for restoring the precepts if transgressed
- Questions and answers
- Does getting angry at someone count as losing bodhicitta?
- Can the bodhisattva only encourage the bodhisattva path?
- What about lying to protect your own life?
- How to train in the conduct after generating bodhicitta
- The reason it’s necessary to train in the precepts after generating bodhicitta
- Buddhahood is not achieved by training in method or wisdom alone
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.
