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.
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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.
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70 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.
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Art 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.
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Know 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.
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Meditation 101 by Venerable Sangye Khadro (2021)
Teachings by Venerable Sangye Khadro suitable for people encountering both meditation and Buddhism for the first time.
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Mind 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.
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Seven 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.
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Tenets 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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Venerable Sangye Khadro How to Meditate: Advice for daily practice
More antidotes to obstacles and how to support a daily practice.
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Buddhist perspectives on death
What the Buddha taught about death and the benefits of meditat...
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Researching the bhikshuni lineage
Can the bhikshuni ordination be traced back to the time of the...
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Venerable Sangye Khadro The twelve links of dependent arising
The four distortions of mind, answers to questions about happiness and karmic imprints, and the…
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Antidotes to attachment
A teaching on attachment and its antidotes, and the six causes of delusion.
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Guided meditation on compassion
A guided meditation to make the mind more familiar and more habituated to the feeling…
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Meditating on suffering (continued)
How meditating on suffering gives rise to renunciation and a discussion about the root of…
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Meditating on suffering
An explanation of the types of suffering experienced in various realms of samsara.
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Spiritual teachers
The qualities of spiritual teachers and benefits of relying on them plus an introduction to…
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How to meditate: An interview with Venerable Sangye ...
The main obstacles for beginners learning to meditate and how to overcome them to achieve…
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Know 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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Know your mind: Direct perceivers and inferential co...
An explanation of the first two of the seven types of mind – direct perceivers…
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Know your mind: Perception and conception
The conditions that lead to a conceptual mind. The division of minds into perception and…
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Know your mind: What is the mind?
Why it’s important to understand the mind, the mind and happiness and suffering, the nature…
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