The great scope of the lamrim
03 Meditation on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (2025)
Venerable Sangye Khadro 
Stages of the Path 
Mar 9, 2025 A series of teachings on the lamrim for Amitabha Buddhist Centre based on Venerable Khadro's book How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path
- Guided meditation on developing equanimity
- The importance of studying the lamrim at your own pace
- Returning to the great scope of the lamrim
- Bodhicitta and the practice of the six perfections
- Conventional and ultimate wisdom
- Examining how the self exists
- Dependent arising and emptiness
- How disturbing emotions lead to suffering
- Guided meditation: dependent arising and our body
- Questions and answers
- Dreamless sleep and techniques to bring it about
- Attachment to family and problems helping those closest to us
- Does analytical meditation lead to insight?
- A surprise birthday celebration and long-life wishes for Venerable Khadro
The first teaching in this series:
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.
