This Precious Human Life Begins with Our Father
with Lennie Kronisch
Facebook LIVE, Sunday June 21st - 10:30am-12pm PDT (US Time)
This precious human life is our greatest treasure, difficult to obtain and easy to lose. In this talk, we will honor all fathers --bio-, step, adoptive—and explore their fundamental role in bringing us into and caring for us in this precious life. Thanks, Dad!
About the Presenter
Lennie is a Registered Nurse with a Master’s degree in Psychology. Her career has spanned birth to death; she has been an obstetrical nurse and childbirth educator, a psychiatric nurse, and was co-founder of the Holistic Health Institute in San Francisco. The last years of her career were with Hospice of Santa Cruz County, serving as a Case Manager and then as Coordinator of Volunteers. Lennie was Lama Yeshe’s nurse for the last few weeks of his life.
After her retirement in 1998, she co-founded Tara Home, a hospice house located at Land of Medicine Buddha, with Petra McWilliam (now Ven. Tenzin Chogkyi), and has devoted herself to its’ development ever since.She also led Buddhist meditations and talks for Road Scholar groups at LMB for many years.
Lennie has been a student and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism since 1975, when she met Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, and was personally honored by H.H. Dalai Lama as an Unsung Hero of Compassion for founding Tara Home. She has three children and four grandchildren and lives in Scotts Valley.
This precious human life is our greatest treasure, difficult to obtain and easy to lose. In this talk, we will honor all fathers --bio-, step, adoptive—and explore their fundamental role in bringing us into and caring for us in this precious life. Thanks, Dad!
About the Presenter
Lennie is a Registered Nurse with a Master’s degree in Psychology. Her career has spanned birth to death; she has been an obstetrical nurse and childbirth educator, a psychiatric nurse, and was co-founder of the Holistic Health Institute in San Francisco. The last years of her career were with Hospice of Santa Cruz County, serving as a Case Manager and then as Coordinator of Volunteers. Lennie was Lama Yeshe’s nurse for the last few weeks of his life.
After her retirement in 1998, she co-founded Tara Home, a hospice house located at Land of Medicine Buddha, with Petra McWilliam (now Ven. Tenzin Chogkyi), and has devoted herself to its’ development ever since.She also led Buddhist meditations and talks for Road Scholar groups at LMB for many years.
Lennie has been a student and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism since 1975, when she met Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, and was personally honored by H.H. Dalai Lama as an Unsung Hero of Compassion for founding Tara Home. She has three children and four grandchildren and lives in Scotts Valley.
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