Chagdud Khadro explores how the Play in Full Sutra reveals the Buddha's life story as both vivid narrative and profound teaching on the connection between virtue and enlightenment.
Photo by Bishnu Prasad Mohanty.
Chagdud Khadro leads an exploration of the Lalitavistara Sutra (The Play in Full), one of Buddhism's most visually rich biographical texts. Hosted by 84000 to celebrate Chokhor Duchen—the holiday commemorating the Buddha's first teaching—this talk reveals how the sutra presents the Buddha's life as both compelling narrative and practical instruction. Khadro explains the significance of supplication in Buddhist practice, details how specific virtuous actions across countless lifetimes manifested as the Buddha's remarkable physical characteristics, and emphasizes the urgency of preserving these teachings through translation for future generations in what Buddhist cosmology calls an "undetermined" age.
Chagdud Khadro is a lama and spiritual director of Chagdud Gonpa Brasil, ordained by her teacher His Eminence Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, carrying forward his Vajrayana lineage through teaching, publication work, and spiritual care for the dying across the Americas, Europe, and Australia.
