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 What helps at the time of death
Continuing the 9-point meditation on death, covering the third root of what helps at the…
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Buddhist perspectives on death
Venerable Sangye Khadro begins the Peaceful Living and Dying retreat with Buddhist perspectives on death.
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The omnipresent mental factors
Venerable Sangye Khadro begins teaching on 'Mind and Mental Factors', giving an introduction, and covering…
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Inattentive perceptions, doubt, and wrong consciousn...
Venerable Sangye Khadro finishes teaching on the seven types of awareness, explaining inattentive perceptions, doubt…
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Being responsible for our emotions
When disturbing emotions arise we have a choice. The Buddhist teachings offer practical methods to…
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Subsequent cognizers
Venerable Sangye Khadro covers the divisions of subsequent cognizers.
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Working with disturbing emotions
Having compassion for ourselves by not following the disturbing emotions.
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The pain of harsh words
Venerable Sangye Khadro shares how painful it is to receive and give harsh words, and…
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Facsimiles of direct perceivers
Venerable Sangye Khadro teaches on facsimiles of direct perceivers and inferential cognizers.
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Reward and respect
A warning against procuring reward and respect by means of flattery, hinting, or coercion.
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Seven kinds of awareness
Venerable Sangye Khadro covering the division of prime and non-prime cognizers, and direct perceivers.
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