Aging Body, Ageless Mind

A Buddhist Guide for Growing Old with Dignity and Joy

Tsering Paldron, Ringu Tulku

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Tsering Paldron
01 July 2025

Buddhism; Coping with old age

In a culture that worships youth and avoids difficult conversations about mortality, this compassionate guide offers a revolutionary perspective on life's later chapters. Drawing from timeless Buddhist teachings and practical wisdom, this book transforms our understanding of aging from something to be feared into a profound opportunity for spiritual awakening. Rather than viewing aging as decline, readers discover how each passing year can deepen compassion, cultivate acceptance, and prepare the mind for the ultimate transition. The book seamlessly weaves together ancient wisdom with modern realities, addressing everything from estate planning and healthcare decisions to finding meaning in physical limitations and loss. The book explores how to maintain dignity and joy even as capabilities change, how to process grief and loss as natural parts of life's rhythm, and how to approach death not as failure but as completion. Whether you're entering your own later years, caring for aging parents, or simply seeking a more authentic relationship with mortality, this book offers profound insights that can transform fear into acceptance, resistance into grace, and endings into sacred beginnings. A tender yet unflinching exploration of what it means to age and die consciously, this guide illuminates the path toward a death that is not just peaceful, but truly meaningful.

By: Tsering Paldron
Preface by: Ringu Tulku
Imprint: Tsering Paldron
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 304g
ISBN: 9789893574256
ISBN 10: 9893574250
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 01 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tsering Paldron was born in Lisbon, and moved to Brussels in 1973, where she first encountered Tibetan Buddhism. She completed a three-year retreat in the 1980s in France, under the guidance of Dudjom Rinpoche and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, two of the greatest teachers of the 20th century. She also received teachings from many lamas of all schools of Tibetan Buddhism.She is a student of Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, and she has been teaching and travelling to teach at events or retreats since 1992. She also serves as translator for many Tibetan teachers, being fluent in French and English as well as her native Portuguese. You can find more about her by checking her website at www.tseringpaldron.com Ringu Tulku Rinpoche is a Tibetan Buddhist Master of the Kagyu Order. He was trained in all schools of Tibetan Buddhism under many great masters such as HH the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa and HH Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. He took his formal education at Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Gangtok and Sampurnananda Sanskrit University, Varanasi, India and has served as Professor of Tibetology in Sikkim for 17 years. His doctoral thesis was on the Ecumenical Movement in Tibet.Since 1990 he has been traveling and teaching Buddhism and meditation at more than 50 Universities, Institutes and Buddhist Centres in Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and Asia. He also participates in various interfaith dialogues. He authored several books on Buddhism as well as some children's books both in Tibetan and European languages.