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 Ven. Thubten Chodron. Ven. Sangye Khadro took the full (bhikshuni) 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 Buddhism with many great masters including Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Lama Yeshe, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey, and Khensur Jampa Tegchok. She began teaching in 1979 and was a resident teacher at Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore for 11 years. She has been resident teacher at the FPMT centre in Denmark since 2016, and from 2008-2015, she followed the Masters Program at the Lama Tsong Khapa Institute in Italy. Venerable Sangye Khadro has authored several books, including the best-selling How to Meditate, now in its 17th printing, which has been translated into eight languages. She has taught at Sravasti Abbey since 2017 and is now a full-time resident.
Featured Series
37 Practices of Bodhisattvas with Venerable Sangye Khadro (2019)
Short talks by Venerable Sangye Khadro on "The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas" by Gyelsay Togmay Zangpo.
View Series70 Topics with Venerable Sangye Khadro (2022)
70 Topics is an important study of the entire sutra path to enlightenment as presented in Maitreya's "Ornament for Clear Realization," including all the fundamental features of the basis, path and goal in the Mahayana.
View SeriesArt of Transforming Suffering Retreat with Venerable Sangye Khadro (2017)
Teachings by Venerable Sangye Khadro on the art of transforming suffering given at Sravasti Abbey in July 2017.
View SeriesKnow Your Mind with Venerable Sangye Khadro (2021)
An introduction to Buddhist psychology by Venerable Sangye Khadro. The course explores topics such as what the mind is, perception and conception, types of awareness, and the mental factors.
View SeriesMeditation 101 by Venerable Sangye Khadro (2021)
Teachings by Venerable Sangye Khadro suitable for people encountering both meditation and Buddhism for the first time.
View SeriesMind and Mental Factors with Venerable Sangye Khadro (2019)
An overview of the Buddhist psychology of mind and mental factors given during a course on Buddhist reasoning and debate in 2019.
View SeriesSeven Kinds of Awareness with Venerable Sangye Khadro (2019)
An overview of the seven kinds of awareness according to the Buddhist philosophy of mind taught as part of a course on Buddhist reasoning and debate in 2019.
View SeriesTenets with Venerable Sangye Khadro (2022)
Weekly teachings on the text "Presentation of Tenets" by Jetsun Chokyi Gyaltsen by Venerable Sangye Khadro.
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How to Meditate: Advice for daily practice
More antidotes to obstacles and how to support a daily practice.
View PostBuddhist perspectives on death
What the Buddha taught about death and the benefits of meditat...
View PostResearching the bhikshuni lineage
Can the bhikshuni ordination be traced back to the time of the...
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The path to liberation
How to cease the twelve links, an outline of ethical practices, and the antidotes to…
View PostMeditation on compassion for our enemies
A guided analytical meditation to cultivate compassion for those we have difficulty with or who…
View PostThe twelve links of dependent arising (continued)
A review of the first five links and discussion of the remaining seven links of…
View PostThe twelve links of dependent arising
The four distortions of mind, answers to questions about happiness and karmic imprints, and the…
View PostAntidotes to attachment
A teaching on attachment and its antidotes, and the six causes of delusion.
View PostGuided meditation on compassion
A guided meditation to make the mind more familiar and more habituated to the feeling…
View PostMeditating on suffering (continued)
How meditating on suffering gives rise to renunciation and a discussion about the root of…
View PostMeditating on suffering
An explanation of the types of suffering experienced in various realms of samsara.
View PostSpiritual teachers
The qualities of spiritual teachers and benefits of relying on them plus an introduction to…
View PostHow to meditate: An interview with Venerable Sangye ...
The main obstacles for beginners learning to meditate and how to overcome them to achieve…
View PostKnow your mind: Seven types of mind and awareness
Explanation of the remaining five of the seven types of mind and the progression from…
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