Mothers: A Buddhist Perspective
with Lennie Kronisch Sunday, May 14, 2023 10:30am - 12:00pm PDT Via Zoom / Registration required |
Program Description:
Lennie will talk about the unique importance of mothers in Buddhist practice and philosophy, honoring our own mothers, and taking the vast view of honoring all mothers throughout time. As the first universal experience that all living beings share, it is the basis of many teachings and insights.
About Lennie Kronisch:
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, with Tenzin Chogkyi, Tara Home, a hospice house located at Land of Medicine Buddha and has devoted herself to its development ever since. In addition to giving talks at and through Tse Chen Ling, for many years she has led Buddhist meditations and talks for Road Scholar groups at Land of Medicine Buddha and at Buddhist Family Camp at Vajrapani Institute.
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, four grandchildren and one great-grandson and lives in Scotts Valley.
Lennie will talk about the unique importance of mothers in Buddhist practice and philosophy, honoring our own mothers, and taking the vast view of honoring all mothers throughout time. As the first universal experience that all living beings share, it is the basis of many teachings and insights.
About Lennie Kronisch:
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, with Tenzin Chogkyi, Tara Home, a hospice house located at Land of Medicine Buddha and has devoted herself to its development ever since. In addition to giving talks at and through Tse Chen Ling, for many years she has led Buddhist meditations and talks for Road Scholar groups at Land of Medicine Buddha and at Buddhist Family Camp at Vajrapani Institute.
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, four grandchildren and one great-grandson and lives in Scotts Valley.
Registration:
Advanced registration is required.
We offer all Dharma teachings and center events on a “dana” basis. This means we’re grateful for your generosity but there is no required cost to attend and no one is turned away for lack of funds. Suggested donation amounts are provided, and we welcome you to offer what you can to help us sustain our programming and make the dharma and events like this possible. And of course, ordained sangha (ordained nuns and monks) are always welcome free of charge.
If you're not donating at this time but would like to attend, please email office@tsechenling.org.
Advanced registration is required.
We offer all Dharma teachings and center events on a “dana” basis. This means we’re grateful for your generosity but there is no required cost to attend and no one is turned away for lack of funds. Suggested donation amounts are provided, and we welcome you to offer what you can to help us sustain our programming and make the dharma and events like this possible. And of course, ordained sangha (ordained nuns and monks) are always welcome free of charge.
If you're not donating at this time but would like to attend, please email office@tsechenling.org.