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Robert Thurman



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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Essential Tibetan Buddhism

Expertly and lucidly surveying the basic varieties and teachings of Tibetan Buddhism, renowned scholar Robert Thurman makes this authentic spiritual tradition available to contemporary Western audiences

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Robert A. F. Thurman
1996
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Buddhist Ethics | Robert Thurman | Talks at Google

Prof. Thurman discusses Buddhist ethics, which he translates as the ten-fold path of skillful and unskillful action. Instead of right and wrong, Professor Thurman urges us to consider ethical behavior as any action that helps us evolve on the path toward enlightenment.

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Robert Thurman
2015
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The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti

This book presents the major teachings of Mahāyāna Buddhism in a precise, dramatic, and even humorous form.

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Vimalakirti, Robert Thurman (translator)
2003
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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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One: The Movie

In a divided post 9-11 world, first-time filmmaker Ward Powers asks life's ultimate questions of world renowned spiritual leaders and ordinary people.

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2005
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Robert Thurman- Buddhist Contributions to Physics, Biology, and Psychology

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Robert Thurman
2015
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The Jewel Tree of Tibet: The Enlightenment Engine of Tibetan Buddhism

Few teachers in the West possess both the spiritual training and the scholarship to lead us along the path to enlightenment. Robert Thurman is one such teacher.

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Robert Thurman
2006
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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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Circling the Sacred Mountain: A Spiritual Adventure Through the Himalayas

To Tibetan Buddhists, Mount Kailash is the most magical place on earth, a place where one's prayers are answered instantly.

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Robert Thurman, Tad Wise
2000
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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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