Discovering Buddhism, Module 9
Samsara and Nirvana
Five Tuesday sessions
April 8 – May 6, 2025
7:00pm – 8:30pm PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)
online only
Practice Day with Ven. Angie Muir
Sunday, May 18, 2025
10:30am – 1:30pm PDT
in-person and online
Program Category: Dharma Education — Foundational
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Investigate what samsara is and how we are stuck in it. Find
out what nirvana is and how to achieve it. Develop the
determination to be free from suffering and gain confidence
in applying practical tools to deal with and eliminate
disturbing emotions forever.
This program is offered in collaboration with
Land of Medicine Buddha.
California-born, Venerable Sangye Khadro
ordained as a Buddhist nun at Kopan Monastery in 1974.
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 Ven. Chodron.
Ven. 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 followed the Masters Program at Lama Tsong Khapa
Institute in Italy from 2008–2013, and was resident
teacher at the FPMT center in Denmark from 2016–2017.
In 2017, Ven. Sangye Khadro led her first retreat at
Sravasti Abbey
on Dealing with Difficult Emotions as a guest teacher, then
returned to offer several more teachings.
She joined the resident community at Sravasti Abbey in 2020
and has taught regularly ever since.
Some of her courses and retreats include a Meditative
Concentration retreat; courses on Good Grief, Awakening a
Kind Heart, and Peaceful Living, Peaceful Dying; and leading
Green Tara and Chenrezig Retreats.
Ven. Sangye Khadro has authored several books, including the
best-selling,
How to Meditate,
now in its 17th printing,
which has been translated into thirteen languages.
See all titles on the
Sangye Khadro book page.
See the complete
playlist of her extensive teachings
on the Sravasti Abbey YouTube channel.
Her past teachings are also available at
ThubtenChodron.org.