Review of the perfection of patience
86 Middle-Length Lamrim
Venerable Thubten Jigme 
Stages of the Path 
Oct 2, 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.
- The nature of fortitude
- The three subdivisions of fortitude
- Factors incompatible with the three types of fortitude
- Perfecting fortitude
- How to cultivate the fortitude that disregards the harm done by others
- How to cultivate the fortitude that accepts dukkha
- Developing the fortitude of certitude about the Dharma teachings
- Summary of the six perfections
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.
