Robert Thurman

thumb|Robert Thurman in 2006 Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman (August 3, 1941 – June 2026) was an American Buddhist author and academic who wrote, edited, and translated several books on Tibetan Buddhism. He was the Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, before retiring in June 2019. "Robert Thurman held the first endowed chair in Buddhist Studies in the West." He was also the co-founder and president of the Tibet House US New York. He translated the Vimalakirti Sutra from the Tibetan Kanjur into English. He is the father of actress Uma Thurman. Quotes The enlightenment tradition discovered the micro and macro dimensions more than two thousand years ago by using sophisticated contemplative practices to augment the sixth mental sense of inner vision … This realm is supernatural only in relation to a constricted definition of natural. It is mystical only when its analytic investigation is not completed. It is magic only when the technique involved is not understood. Thurman, Inner Revolution quoted from Malhotra, R., & Infinity Foundation (Princeton, N.J.). (2018). Being different: An Indian challenge to western universalism. External links Category:1941 births Category:2026 deaths Category:Academics from the United States Category:Translators from the United States Category:Editors from the United States Category:Activists from the United States Category:Buddhists from the United States Category:Indologists Category:People from New York City Category:Columbia University faculty