TLC Transitional Life Care
A Vajrayana Buddhist education and support program offering spiritual resources for the end of life transition.
TLC EVENTS
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Welcome to TLC's Events
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All our events are presented via Zoom unless otherwise noted. The ordained are always welcome free.
​Unless noted, all who register for our Zoom events will receive a link providing additional access to the recording for three months, whether present that day or not.
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Scroll down to register for our next event and to see what's coming up.​
TLC also provides videos of our past events. Go to the TLC DVD Archive page to find videos you can own, and go to the Free TLC Videos to find videos you can watch. Sign up for our newsletters at the bottom of this page to receive updates. Also, please add tlcserves@gmail.com to your contact list to ensure delivery to your Inbox.
Upcoming Events
Check for updates here, in our newsletter, and on our Facebook, Instagram and BlueSky pages to receive info about future events and resources.
Forgiveness for Self and Others:
Lord Buddha’s Advice
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with Venerable Thubten Chodron
As life nears its conclusion, the weight of "unfinished business" can become a barrier to a peaceful transition. Drawing from the ‘Sutra of the Eleven Recognitions’, Venerable Thubten Chodron shares how the Buddha’s teachings offer a profound method for untangling the knots of the heart. Join Venerable Thubten Chodron with TLC to learn how the practice of forgiveness serves as the ultimate preparation for a graceful and fearless transition.​
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Sunday, October 18
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PDT on Zoom
Suggested sliding scale donation: $25-$45
PLEASE NOTE NEW REGISTRAR ADDRESS
Registration questions? Contact: registrar@tlcserves.org
No one will be turned away for lack of funds and options are available when you register.
The ordained are welcome free! All donations are gratefully accepted.
Once registered, you will receive an acknowledgment, and additional emails with vital info one and three days before the event. Open the link provided—the Zoom link will be posted there two hours before the program. Within a week following the event, another link will be sent, providing access to the recording for three months.​
​Venerable Thubten Chodron is an author, teacher, and the founder and abbess of Sravasti Abbey, a pioneering Tibetan Buddhist training monastery for Western nuns and monks in the US. Ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun in 1977, she received full ordination as a bhikshuni in 1986 and she has studied extensively with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Tsenzhap Serkong Rinpoche, and other lamas. Venerable Chodron teaches worldwide and is known for her warm, practical, and humorous explanations of how to apply Buddhist teachings in daily life. She is also involved in prison outreach and interfaith dialogue. She has published many books on Buddhist philosophy and meditation and assisted His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the writing and publication of The Library of Wisdom and Compassion, a ten-volume series of teachings on the Buddhist path. Visit thubtenchodron.org for a media library of her teachings, and sravastiabbey.org to learn more about Sravasti Abbey.
TLC and Shambhala Online invite you to…
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Illuminating the Bardo Thodol ~
A Teaching About the Tibetan Book of the Dead
from a Dzogchen Perspective
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with Francesca Fremantle
As Trungpa Rinpoche said, the Tibetan Book of the Dead could better be called a book for the living. Only by looking deeply into the nature of our mind can we understand that the essence of mind is the same through birth, life, and death. Whatever we experience, whether in this life or in the bardo after death, is the play of our own mind. Above all, we need to develop the confidence to recognize this under all circumstances, and to trust our own basic goodness and awareness.
Saturday, December 5, 2026
9:30 - 11:30 a.m. & 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. PST on Zoom
Suggested sliding scale donation: $45-$65
No one will be turned away for lack of funds and options are available when you register.
Registration questions? Contact registrar@tlcserves.org
Once registered, you will receive an acknowledgment, and an additional email with vital info both one and three days before the event. Open the link provided—the Zoom link will be posted there two hours before the program begins. Within a week following the event, another link will be sent, providing access to the recording for three months.​
Francesca Fremantle is a scholar and translator of Sanskrit and Tibetan works of Hindu and Buddhist tantra. She received her doctorate from the School of Oriental and African Studies at London University. She was a student of Chögyam Trungpa for many years. She worked closely with Chögyam Trungpa on the 1975 translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Her remarkable book about the Bardo Thodol, or Tibetan Book of the Dead, Luminous Emptiness, is available from Shambhala.
SAVE THE DATES!
Dungse Chakung Jigme Wangdrak Rinpoche
Advice to a Dying Practitioner
a text by Dodrupchen Jikme Tenpe Nyima
Sat. & Sun. March 20 & 21
A Hybrid Event at Orgyen Dorje Den Temple in Alameda, CA
Details TBA - Stay Tuned!
Registration will open in February.
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Roy Remer
Executive Director of the Zen Caregiving Project
Topic & Spring Date to be Announced!
More info to come! Stay tuned...