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Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman (born August 4, 1941 in New York City) is an American Buddhist writer and academic. He is the Je Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University. He also is the co-founder and president of Tibet House New York and currently holds the first endowed chair in this field of study in the United States. He is the father of five children including the actress Uma Thurman. Dr. Thurman is highly-regarded for his lucid, dynamic translations and explanations of Buddhist religious and philosophical material, particularly that pertaining to the Gelukpa (dge-lugs-pa) school of Tibetan Buddhism and its founder, Je Tsong Khapa including Tsong Khapa's Speech of Gold: Reason and Enlightenment in the Central Philosophy of Tibet, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Essential Tibetan Buddhism, and his most recent, Inner Revolution: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Real Happiness. At the age of 24, he became the first Western monk of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. A close friend of Tenzin Gyatso, he has served as occasional translator to the 14th Dalai Lama. He has lectured all over the world.
Works Multimedia Thurman, Robert (1999). Robert A.F. Thurman on Buddhism. DVD. ASIN B00005Y721. Thurman, Robert (2002). Robert Thurman on Tibet. DVD. ASIN B00005Y722. Reference | ||||||||
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