Today, we celebrate renowned Buddhist activist and scholar Robert Thurman’s 80th birthday.
The Meaning of the Dalai Lama for Today
When I have attended His Holiness the Dalai Lama giving Buddhist teachings to large assemblies, I have had an odd sensation lately…
Know Your Enemy
We call people who harm us enemies, but is that who they really are?
What Is Suffering?
Nine teachers explain what suffering is, how we feel it, and why it isn’t a condemnation — it’s a joyous opportunity.
Robert Thurman, Buddha’s Champion
Renowned activist and scholar Robert Thurman can translate sutras, joke with the Dalai Lama, and call in a favor from George Lucas. Retirement, says Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, won’t slow this man down.
Fear and Fearlessness: What the Buddhists Teach
So much of our suffering—as individuals and as a society—is caused by fear. In fact, according to Buddhism, fear is at the very root of ego and samsara.
Circling the Sacred Mountain
Photo by Vijay Kiran.Haunted by the famed mountain since he was a young monk, Robert Thurman leads a small group of pilgrims overland to Tibet’s Mt. Kailash, the sacred axis mundi of central Asian cosmology. In this excerpt from “Circling the Sacred Mountain: A Spiritual Adventure Through the Himalayas,” the party arrives at its destination. The narrator is Tad Wise.
“Attachment is unhealthy” — Robert Thurman on intimacy, Part 2
Robert Thurman discusses “deep violations” in intimate relationships, and whether non-Buddhists can benefit from Buddhist ideas.
Robert Thurman on the benefits and disappointments of intimacy
Here Robert Thurman, in discussion with Sachico Ohanks, addresses the benefits and disappointments of intimacy.
A Cry for Freedom
Robert Thurman’s commentary on the Tibetan plight and the horrifying phenomenon of Tibetans self-immolating in protest of Chinese rule.