How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path

“How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path is a much-needed roadmap on how to meditate on all the main topics on the path to liberation and full awakening. Whether you are starting your exploration of Buddhism or planning to do a long retreat on the stages of the path to awakening, this is a book to keep on your meditation table: it will steer you toward actualizing your buddha potential!”–Bhiksuni Thubten Chodron, Dharma teacher, author, and abbess of Sravasti Abbey“Sangye Khadro has done it again. The translator and teacher who gave us inspiring and engaging guidance about Tibetan meditations in general in her first book, How to Meditate, now focuses her well-honed skills on showing us precisely how to meditate on the multiple topics of the stages of the path (lamrim) teachings, masterfully laying out how we each might meditate, systematically, on the stages of the path to enlightenment.”–Jan Willis, PhD, author of Dreaming Me: Black, Baptist, and Buddhist and Dharma Matters: Women, Race, and Tantra

Originally from California, Kathleen McDonald (Sangye Khadro) began studying Buddhism with Tibetan lamas in Dharamsala, India, in 1973. She became a nun in Nepal the following year, and received full (bhikshuni) ordination in 1988. At the request of her teachers, she began teaching in 1980, and since then has been teaching Buddhism and meditation in various countries around the world, occasionally taking time off for personal retreats. She served as resident teacher in Buddha House, Australia, for two years and in Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore for eleven years. From 2008 to 2013 she followed the Masters Program at Lama Tsong Khapa Institute in Italy. Since then she served for seven years as a faculty member of the Human Spirit Psychoanalytic-Buddhist Training Program in Israel, and for a year and a half as the resident teacher at the Center for Wisdom and Compassion in Copenhagen, Denmark. She currently resides at Sravasti Abbey in Washington State, USA, and teaches online. She is the author of How to Meditate: A Practical Guide and Awakening the Kind Heart: How to Meditate on Compassion.