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Bob in 1946. Bob as Troilus, Harvard Loeb Theater in 1959. With his first daughter Taya Thurman in 1959. As a student of Geshe Ngawang Wangyal with Jeffry Hopkins, and Christopher George in 1960. Bob as a new Buddhist monk, ordained by the Dalai Lama in 1964. With Grandpa Preston in 1966. Bob and Nena von Schlebrügge at their wedding in 1967 ...
Bob Thurman, known in the academic circles as Professor Robert A.F. Thurman, is a talented popularizer of the Buddha’s teachings and the first Westerner Tibetan Buddhist monk ordained by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Why you should listen. Tenzin Robert Thurman became a Tibetan monk at age 24. He's a professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies at Columbia University, and co-founder of Tibet House US, a nonprofit dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Tibetan civilization. Thurman's focus is on the balance between inner insight and cultural harmony.
http://www.ted.com In our hyperlinked world, we can know anything, anytime. And this mass enlightenment, says Buddhist scholar Bob Thurman, is our first ste...
Robert Thurman | TEDSalon 2006 • December 2006. Read transcript. In our hyperlinked world, we can know anything, anytime. And this mass enlightenment, says Buddhist ...
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May 3, 2021 · Robert Thurman held the first endowed chair in Buddhist Studies in the West, the Jey Tsong Khapa Chair in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, before retiring in June of 2019. . Educated at Philips Exeter and Harvard, he then studied Tibet, Tibetan Buddhism, and Asian languages and histories for fifty years with many teachers, including His Holiness the Dalai Lama (C. U. Ph.D., hc, 19
Jun 21, 2019 · Robert A. F. Thurman PhD, is the Jey Tsong Khapa professor of Indo-Tibetan Studies at Columbia University and head of the Columbia Center for Buddhist Studies. Robert Thurman discuss Buddhist science and argues that the Buddha’s scientific worldview is less dogmatic than modern science.
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