Celebrate the New (Tibetan) Year with the Days of Miracles!
February 12, 2024 @ 9:00pm (IST)
Online Event
On Losar Day we also honour the anniversary of FPMT founder Lama Yeshe’s passing away. Following Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s advice, we started the tradition of inviting older students who knew Lama to share their favourite stories about Lama Yeshe to keep his memory alive.
Teacher
Originally from California, Venerable Sangye Khadro (Kathleen McDonald) was ordained as a Buddhist nun in Kopan Monastery, Nepal, in 1974. She has studied Buddhism with various teachers such as Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Lama Thubten Yeshe, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
At the request of her teachers, Ven Sangye Khadro began teaching in 1979, while living in England, and since then has taught in many countries around the world. She was a resident teacher at Amitabha Buddhist Centre, in Singapore, for 11 years.
In 1988 Sangye Khadro took the full ordination (bhikshuni) vows.
She is the author of How to Meditate and Awakening the Kind Heart.
She completed the Masters Program in Istituto Lama Tsong Khapa, Italy, in 2013, and was on the faculty of the Human Spirit Psychoanalytic-Buddhist Training Program in Israel for seven years. She now lives in Sravasti Abbey, Washington, and teaches online.