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Robert Thurman, PhD, is an influential American Buddhist author, academic, and human rights activist. He taught at Amherst and Columbia universities, cofounded the Tibet House in New York at the request of the Dalai Lama, and has received the prestigious Padma Shri award for his work in literature and education.

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Listening in with … Robert Thurman by Katy Koontz, Unity Magazine

I first met His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, Buddhist monk Tenzin Gyatso for short, in November, 1964, in Sarnath, India.

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Katy Koontz
2016
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The Meaning of the Dalai Lama for Today

Robert Thurman sees the Dalai Lama as a reincarnation of the Buddha of universal compassion. Amidst the chaos of today’s world, he says, the “simple monk” remains undaunted, and even cheerful.

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50 Years of Marriage and Mindfulness with Nena and Robert Thurman

“If you share a spiritual outlook,” she said, “it’s an area you can return to when you are having your petty struggles, which are nonsense compared to what you really care about" - Nena Thurman

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Penelope Green
2017
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Rick Fields, 57, Poet and Expert on Buddhism

Rick Fields was one of our foremost interpreters of Buddhism for Americans,'' said Robert A. F. Thurman, professor of Indo-Tibetan Studies at Columbia University and the nation's pre-eminent scholar on Tibetan Buddhism.

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Nick Ravo
1999
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Know Your Enemy

We call people who harm us enemies, but is that who they really are? When we see the person behind the label, say Buddhist teachers Sharon Salzberg and Robert Thurman, everyone benefits.

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Sharon Salzberg, Robert Thurman
2021
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Buddhist Scholar Bob Thurman on the Dalai Lama’s View That a Woman Could Succeed Him

The Dalai Lama has said over the years that he would welcome a woman as the next Dalai Lama. One of his confidants for the past 52 years, Dr. Robert Thurman, offered his take in an interview with ABC News’ Dan Harris for his “10% Happier” podcast.

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Lauren Effron
2016
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Buddhist Science Is What Scientists Should Be Doing

Robert Thurman discusses the Buddha’s scientific worldview and argues that it is less dogmatic than modern science.

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Matthew Abrahams
2019
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Robert Thurman on the Benefits and Disappointments of Intimacy

The benefits of intimacy have to do with finding yourself in others and expanding your self-centeredness, so that you think of the perspective of others almost reflexively.

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Robert Thurman
2013
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The Tibetan Buddhist View of Death and Rebirth

In the March 1995 Lion’s Roar magazine, Professor Robert Thurman explained the Tibetan Buddhist view of death and rebirth.

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Robert Thurman
2018
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