Svātantrika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 2
Venerable Sangye Khadro 
Tenets with Ven. Sangye Khadro 
Jun 27, 2022 Part of a series of teachings given during a course on the four Buddhist tenet schools by Venerable Sangye Khadro at Sravasti Abbey. Handouts for the course included "The Four Schools of Tenets, Their Founders and Proponents" and "Presentation of Tenets by Venerable Manjushri Chokyi Gyaltsen". There were also slides used during the talk.
- Meditation on the idea of a self-sufficient, substantially existent self
- Differing views on the Madhyamaka schools acceptance of external phenomena
- The mode of asserting objects
- The definition of ultimate and conventional truths
- An analogy to explain the conception of true existence
- More about the Svātantrika Madhyamaka assertions of objects
Svātantrika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 2 (download)
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.
