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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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience with Venerable Sangye Khadro
Teachings on the stages of the path to awakening by Venerable Sangye Khadro hosted by Thubten Norbu Ling Center in New Mexico, USA.
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Introduction to Tantra with Venerable Sangye Khadro 2021 and 2023
Teachings on Tantra (Vajrayana), including its relationship with other Buddhist practices, the correct motivation, preparation for practice, and extensive topics covering emptiness. Covers two series from 2021 and 2023.
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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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Middle-Length Lamrim with Venerable Sangye Khadro (2023-present)
Ongoing teachings on the Middle-Length Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment by Lama Tsongkhapa. Streamed live on the Sravasti Abbey YouTube channel on Thursday mornings at 9 am Pacific Time.
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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 Know your mind: Virtuous mental factors
Explanation of the virtuous mental factors of nonattachment, nonhatred, nonconfusion, joyous effort, pliancy, conscientiousness, equanimity,…
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Know your mind: Object-ascertaining and virtuous men...
Explanation of the five object-ascertaining mental factors and the first three virtuous mental factors —faith,…
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Know your mind: Omnipresent mental factors
The similarities shared by main minds and mental factors, and the five omnipresent mental factors…
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Know your mind: Introduction to minds and mental fac...
An overview of the definition of mind, sense and mental consciousnesses. Explanation of main minds…
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The path to liberation
How to cease the twelve links, an outline of ethical practices, and the antidotes to…
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Meditation on compassion for our enemies
A guided analytical meditation to cultivate compassion for those we have difficulty with or who…
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The twelve links of dependent arising (continued)
A review of the first five links and discussion of the remaining seven links of…
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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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