In-Person and Online: Finding Meaning and Happiness in a World of Change
with Ann Tashi Slater
Saturday, March 28th, 2026 | 6:00pm – 7:30pm ET
In-Person Location: New York Insight at 115 West 29th Street, 12th Floor
(Just announced, Saturday Night Discount to subsidized level. Now register for as low as $20, see below)
Please join us for a discussion with Ann Tashi Slater regarding her new book, Traveling in Bardo: The Art of Living in an Impermanent World. This work explores how we can find meaning and happiness in a world where nothing—including ourselves—lasts forever.
Drawing on over forty years of writing and speaking about her Tibetan-American heritage and the role of Buddhism in modern life, Ann will discuss how Tibetan bardo views on impermanence can transform the way we live. By interweaving reflections on marriage, friendship, family, and creativity with stories of her Tibetan ancestors and Buddhist teachings on the fleeting nature of existence, she offers a bold framework for navigating change and living life fully.
The program will be introduced by Tashi Chodron, Himalayan Programs and Communities Ambassador at the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, and will include an art connection from the Rubin’s collection.
To close the evening, after her reading and presentation, Ann will be joined in conversation by Author, Writer, and Publisher John Madera, before opening the floor for community Q&A.
A thangka depicting the six realms of existence, as well as the peaceful and wrathful buddhas encountered in the bardo journey. From the collection of the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art.
In-Person Registration:
Please register below to attend in-person. If you are able, registering at the “Supporter” level enables others to attend at the “Subsidized” level. Thank you for your generosity! (Please note that the registration price includes a base level of teacher support, and you will have the opportunity to donate more after the program.)
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Bring a Buddy: If you are a member of our Circle of Friends, you’re invited to bring a Dharma buddy to this program for no additional cost. Simply select “1” from the drop-down next to the Bring a Buddy level, and enter your special discount code (provided in your Circle of Friends welcome email) to reduce the price to that of a single, standard registration. This registration will grant attendance for you and your buddy.
Online (Zoom) Registration:
Please register below to attend online via Zoom. If you are able, registering at the “Supporter” level enables others to attend at the “Subsidized” level. Thank you for your generosity! (Please note that the registration price includes a base level of teacher support, and you will have the opportunity to donate more after the program.)
If you are registering via a mobile device such as a phone or tablet, you can scroll right and left and up and down within the below form if it is partially obscured or cut off.
CLICK HERE to open the registration form in a new browser window.
Bring a Buddy: If you are a member of our Circle of Friends, you’re invited to bring a Dharma buddy to this program for no additional cost. Simply select “1” from the drop-down next to the Bring a Buddy level, and enter your special discount code (provided in your Circle of Friends welcome email) to reduce the price to that of a single, standard registration. This registration will grant attendance for you and your buddy.
Volunteering
All of our programs rely on volunteers to support our teachers and staff with various tasks and responsibilities. Volunteering allows you to participate in our programs at no cost. To inquire about volunteering opportunities, please fill out our inquiry form, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Teacher(s)
Ann Tashi Slater
Ann Tashi Slater is the author of Traveling in Bardo: The Art of Living in an Impermanent World (Balance/Hachette). With a foreword by Dani Shapiro, the book has been praised by Elizabeth Gilbert, Sharon Salzberg, Melissa Febos, and Julia Alvarez, among others; Publishers Weekly calls it “a rich and freewheeling meditation on life, death, and impermanence.” Ann’s work appears in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Literary Hub, Oprah Daily, Lion’s Roar, Guernica, Granta, and elsewhere, and she’s a contributing editor at Tricycle. She presents and teaches workshops at Princeton, Columbia, Oxford, Asia Society, and The American University of Paris, and was a regular speaker at NYC’s Rubin Museum of Art during the museum’s 20-year run. Visit her at www.anntashislater.com.
Tashi Chodron
Tashi Chodron is a mindfulness teacher. She is one of the first women of her generation in exile to receive the entire teachings of the Vajrayana path directly from HH Penor Rinpoche (one of the greatest masters of the 20th century) including Ngondro—preliminary teachings, Tsalung and Dzogchen, the pinnacle of the Buddhist teachings. As the Himalayan Programs and Communities Ambassador at the Rubin Museum of Art, Tashi has taught Awakening Practice and Awakening Wisdom Experience mindful meditation classes, and educates university students and adults through gallery tours and classes on Himalayan Arts and Culture.
She taught the Awakening Practice at Kripalu in partnership with NY Yoga and Life Magazine for many years and curated a monthly program on Himalayan Art and Culture called “Himalayan Heritage” at the Rubin Museum of Art. She also led virtual sessions with Tibet House New York, the Center for Adults Living Well @ the YMCA, and hosted meditation sessions for children since the pandemic, and led a meditation session on the 21 Feminine Attributes for UN Women’s USA.
Tashi is the founder and current director of Voices of Tibet, an organization dedicated to conducting interviews with Tibetan elders to save their stories for many future generations and to educate the world about Tibet. She is also a board member of the UN Women’s USA NY Chapter.
John Madera
John Madera is the author of Nervosities (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2024). His other fiction is published in Conjunctions, Salt Hill, Hobart, The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, and many other journals. His poetry is published in elimae, Sixth Finch, Contrapuntos, and elsewhere. His criticism is published in American Book Review, Bookforum, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Rain Taxi: Review of Books, The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail, and many other venues. A recipient of an M.F.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University and a two-time New York State Council on the Arts awardee, John lives in New York City, where he runs Rhizomatic and manages and edits Big Other.