Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman (born August 3, 1941) is an American Buddhist author and academic who has written, edited, and translated several books on Tibetan Buddhism. He was the Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, before retiring in June 2019.[1] He was the first endowed chair in Buddhist Studies in the West.[1] He also is the co-founder and president of the Tibet House US New York. He translated the Vimalakirti Sutra from the Tibetan Kanjur into English. He is the father of actress Uma Thurman.
^ ab"Robert A. F. Thurman | Department of Religion". Columbia University. 2019-12-21. Archived from the original on 21 December 2019. Retrieved 2020-04-10. Robert Thurman held the first endowed chair in Buddhist Studies in the West, the Jey Tsong Khapa Chair in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies (...)
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the Tibetan cause," Columbia University professor and THUS President RobertThurman, the first western Buddhist monk, actor and Chairman of the International...
a third edition (2002, 2003, 2005). The 2002 text has a foreword by RobertThurman. Turlington was involved in the editing of the January–February 2001...
jointly staged benefits for the Jewel Heart organization. Professor RobertThurman, Joe Liozzo, and Glenn Mullin, are also Jewel Heart members and frequent...
counter-culture, George Harrison and Cat Stevens, Western Buddhist RobertThurman, and writer D. H. Lawrence, who spent two summers here. The village...
the United States. In 1971 Geshe Wangyal and the Dalai Lama persuaded RobertThurman to start publishing an English translation of the entire 4000 titles...
serving simultaneously as a founding figure for different traditions. RobertThurman explains the symbiotic relationship between Tantric Buddhist communities...
(Sanskrit). A contemporary scholar with a focus on Tibetan Buddhism, RobertThurman writes that Patanjali was influenced by the success of the Buddhist...
this separation by means of understanding, devotion and practice." RobertThurman writes that Patañjali was influenced by the success of the Buddhist...
Christopher Snow and Taya Thurman. His maternal grandparents were Buddhist scholar RobertThurman, the father of actress Uma Thurman, and artist Marie-Christophe...
movement, to which Watts gave philosophical support. He also encountered Robert Anton Wilson, who credited Watts with being one of his "Light[s] along the...
Library of Buddhism, 2004, page 328 RobertThurman and Professor Masatoshi Nagatomi of Harvard University: RobertThurman, in The Emptiness That is Compassion...
"Pradipoddyotana", PhD Thesis accepted by Columbia University (Advisor: RobertThurman), page 355 Christian K. Wedemeyer, Aryadeva's Lamp that Integrates the...
offshoot of Tibet House US. The project was spearheaded by RobertThurman and Nena Thurman. Casa Tibet México, founded in 1989 in Mexico City. Casa del...
themselves, and failing that, at least not offensive to them. According to RobertThurman, the term "Nikāya Buddhism" was coined by Masatoshi Nagatomi of Harvard...
Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier, with RobertThurman (2014) ISBN 1401928153 Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection (2017)...
university in the UK to do so.[citation needed] American Buddhist writer RobertThurman depicts the Tibetan Buddhist master as a psychonaut, stating that "Tibetan...
telling Thurman that he should be out of the hospital soon and to be ready for his return. When the skateboard gang leader harasses Thurman again, Thurman finally...
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