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Robert A.F. Thurman

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August 03, 1941 in New York City, The United States

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Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman (born August 3, 1941) is an influential and prolific American Buddhist writer and academic who has authored, edited or translated several books on Tibetan Buddhism. He is the Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, holding the first endowed chair in this field of study in the United States. He also is the co-founder and president of the Tibet House New York and is active against the People's Republic of China's control of Tibet.

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Average rating: 3.95 · 2,191 ratings · 214 reviews · 58 distinct works

	Tibetan Book of the Dead by Robert A.F. Thurman (Translator), Huston Smith, Dalai Lama XIV (Foreword by) 3.97 avg rating — 305 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	Essential Tibetan Buddhism 3.78 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Inner Revolution by Robert A.F. Thurman, Dalai Lama XIV (Foreword by) 3.80 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Infinite Life by Robert A.F. Thurman, Dalai Lama XIV (Foreword by) 3.92 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Jewel Tree of Tibet: The Enlightenment Engine of Tibetan Buddhism 4.14 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Circling the Sacred Mountain: A Spiritual Adventure Through the Himalayas 3.88 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Anger 3.69 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Why the Dalai Lama Matters: His Act of Truth as the Solution for China, Tibet, and the World 3.43 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Liberation Upon Hearing in the Between: Living with the Tibetan Book of the Dead 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	The Central Philosophy of Tibet: A Study and Translation of Jey Tsong Khapa's "Essence of True Eloquence" by Robert A.F. Thurman, Dalai Lama XIV (Foreword by) 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1991	My rating:

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“Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.”
― Robert A.F. Thurman, Why the Dalai Lama Matters: His Act of Truth as the Solution for China, Tibet, and the World

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