
Medicine Buddha Retreat with Ven. Sangye Khadro
July 3 @ 3:00 pm - July 10 @ 3:00 pm PDT

Medicine Buddha Retreat
with Ven. Sangye Khadro
July 3 to July 10

Join Ven. Sangye Khadro for a week-long retreat on the Medicine Buddha, the Buddha of healing and restoring peace and harmony.
The Medicine Buddha practice is supportive for health related issues, and also for healing the world and restoring peace and harmony. Medicine Buddha also helps to overcome the inner sicknesses of attachment, anger, and ignorance, and support us to generate and enhance compassion, love, and bodhicitta.
In-person only. Check back for more information.
All Abbey Dharma programs are offered freely, and your offering is welcomed. A dana offering of $100 reserves your place in the retreat. There will be another opportunitiy to make additional offerings to the teacher and to the Abbey during the course. Make an offering here.Â
Practice Resources
Practice Text
Check back for information on exactly which version of the sadhana we will use for the retreat.
- Download the full Medicine Buddha sadhana.
- A shorter version is here.
- You can also find it in the red Pearl of Wisdom Book II,Â
Teachings
- Ven. Thubten Chodron’s teachings on Medicine Buddha retreat 2021 – Video series with Ven. Thubten Chodron
- Guided meditations on Medicine Buddha 2021- Video series with Sravasti Abbey Monastics
- Explanation of the Medicine Buddha Practice – Audio teaching with Ven. Thubten Chodron
- Visualizing the Medicine Buddha – Video teaching with Ven. Thubten Chodron
- Medicine Buddha Retreat 2000 – Audio teaching series with Ven. Thubten Chodron
- Medicine Buddha Retreat 2007-2008 – Audio and transcripts of teaching series with Ven. Thubten Chodron
- Medicine Buddha Retreat 2016 – Video series with Ven. Thubten Chodron
Registration information
You must register to visit.
If you have any of these symptoms, please re-schedule your visit: Fever or chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, new loss of taste or smell, sore throat, congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting, diarrhea.
More about the teacher
California-born, Ven. Sangye Khadro ordained as a Buddhist nun at Kopan Monastery in Nepal  in 1974, and took the full (bhikshuni) ordination in 1988. She 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. In addition to Awakening the Kind Heart, she is the author of several books, including How to Meditate, now in its 17th printing. In 2024 she published How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path: A Guide to the Lamrim.