Discussion questions overview
03 Peaceful Living, Peaceful Dying
Venerable Sangye Khadro 
Peaceful Living, Peaceful Dying Retreats 
Sep 27, 2025 Part of a series of talks given during the 2025 "Peaceful Living, Peaceful Dying" retreat hosted by the Centre Kalachakra, Paris
- Why is it important to prepare for death while we are still alive?
- Why do you think people are afraid of death and uncomfortable talking about it?
- What interesting thoughts, feelings and experiences have you had when doing the meditation on death is definite?
- Discuss your thoughts on the different Buddhist perspectives on death:
- Human life is fortunate and precious.
- Death is a natural, inevitable part of life.
- It is important to accept and be mindful of death.
- Dying is not necessarily a bad experience.
- Death is not annihilation, but a gateway to another life.
- We can become free of death and rebirth.
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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.
