Ann Tashi Slater

Ann Tashi Slater writes for the New Yorker, the Paris Review, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Catapult, Guernica, and the Huffington Post, among others, and is a Tricycle contributing editor. She recently finished a memoir and is working on a book about bardo and the art of living.
gish jen

Personal Reflections Bardo

Finding Your Own Narrative

Between-States: Conversations About Bardo and Life In Tibetan Buddhism, “bardo” is a between-state. The passage from death to rebirth is a bardo, as well as the journey from birth to death. The conversations in “Between-States” explore…

Ann Tashi Slater in conversation with Gish Jen 

John McPhee

Personal Reflections Bardo

On Going into the Zone

Between-States: Conversations About Bardo and Life In Tibetan Buddhism, “bardo” is a between-state. The passage from death to rebirth is a bardo, as well as the journey from birth to death. The conversations in “Between-States” explore…

Ann Tashi Slater in conversation with John McPhee

Mohsin Hamid

Personal Reflections Bardo

Every Ending Is a Beginning

Between-States: Conversations About Bardo and Life In Tibetan Buddhism, “bardo” is a between-state. The passage from death to rebirth is a bardo, as well as the journey from birth to death. The conversations in “Between-States” explore…

Ann Tashi Slater in conversation with Mohsin Hamid

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