Ann Tashi Slater

Ann Tashi Slater writes for the New Yorker, the Paris Review, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Guernica, and Granta, among others, and is a Tricycle contributing editor. Traveling in Bardo, her book about the art of living in an impermanent world, will be published by Hachette Go in fall 2025.
Isabel Allende

Personal Reflections Bardo

Saying Yes to Life

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 Isabel Allende

Andrew Sean Greer

Personal Reflections Bardo

Creating a Sense of Joy

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 Andrew Sean Greer

Dani Shapiro

Personal Reflections Bardo

This Moment Is the Only Moment

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 Dani Shapiro

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 

Podcasts

Every Moment Is a Bardo

With Ann Tashi Slater

Every Moment Is a Bardo

In the latest episode of Life As It Is, Ann Tashi Slater joins co-hosts James Shaheen and Sharon Salzberg to discuss near-death experiences, end-of-life rituals, and what the living can learn from The Tibetan Book of the Dead.

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