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 2008-2015 she followed the Masters Program at Lama Tsong Khapa Institute in Italy.
Kathleen McDonald
Books
Related Blog Posts

“When we fall on the ground it hurts us, but we also need to rely on the ground to get back up.”—Kathleen McDonald, How to Meditate
“When we fall on the ground it hurts us, but we also need to rely on the ground to get...
read more »
“Use your own problems to remember that others have problems too.”—Kathleen McDonald, Awakening the Kind Heart
“Use your own problems to remember that others have problems too.”—Kathleen McDonald...
read more »
“Difficult people can teach us patience. If we are sincere about working on ourselves—decreasing our ego, anger, and other delusions, and increasing patience, love, and other...
read more »“Difficult people can teach us patience. If we are sincere about working on ourselves—...
read more »
This week’s morsel is from one of Wisdom’s most-read titles, How to Meditate by Kathleen McDonald. McDonald is a Western Buddhist nun with solid experience in both...
read more »This week’s morsel is from one of Wisdom’s most-read titles, How to Meditate...
read more »
For this week’s Meditations Illustrated, Mike Medaglia illustrates an idea that can be truly life-...
read more »For this week’s Meditations Illustrated,...
read more »
To want something and not want to be separated from it: very broadly, this is attachment, also known as desire. Attendant to it is the false assumption that having...
read more »To want something and not want to be separated from it: very broadly, this...
read more »