Robert Thurman

Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman (born August 4, 1941 in New York City) is the Je Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University and is the co-founder and president of Tibet House New York. At the age of 24, he became the first American Tibetan Buddhist monk. He is the father of actress Uma Thurman.

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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. Dr. Thurman has served as occassional translator to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, and has advocated on behalf of the cause of Tibetan freedom in the United States and abroad.

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Je Tsong Khapa - Dalai Lama

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