The Dalai Lama shocked followers when he said the next in line could be a woman. — -- The Dalai Lama has said over the years that he would welcome a woman as the next Dalai Lama. One of his ...

Robert A.F. Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia University. He is also president of the Tibet House U.S., a non-profit ...

Robert Thurman focuses on the Buddha the Dharma and the Sangha in this threepart lecture series He explains the Buddha as the teacher of enlightenment the Dharma as the teaching and the Sangha as the ...

Renowned Buddhist teachers Sharon Salzberg and Robert Thurman share teachings and stories, and lead meditations based on their book, Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot ...

Tibetan scholar Thurman paints a splendid portrait of the Dalai Lama and masterfully elucidates the 50-year-old conflict between Tibet and China in this timely analysis. The author presents an ...

Professor, author and activist Robert Thurman is widely regarded as the leading American expert on Tibetan Buddhism, having been a major force in the widespread introduction of Tibetan culture and ...

Forecast: A nine-city author tour will help promote this title, which is a One Spirit Book Club alternate selection.

Aw! Who wouldn’t want to suckle that face!Photo: Getty Images This weekend, Times questioner Deborah Solomon looked to Buddhist expert and official Friend of the Dalai Lama Robert Thurman for answers.

Scholar, author, former Tibetan Buddhist monk, co-founder with Richard Gere of Tibet House in New York City, a close personal friend of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, and father of five children ...

Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman is an American Buddhist author and academic who has written, edited, and translated several books on Tibetan Buddhism. He held the first endowed chair in Buddhist ...