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American Buddhist writer and academic

For the baseball player, see Bob Thurman. For the novelist, see Rob Thurman.

Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman (born August 3, ) is an American Buddhist author and academic who has written, 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 ^[1] He was the first endowed chair in Buddhist Studies in the West.^[1] He also is 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.

Early life and education

Thurman was born in New York City, the son of Elizabeth Dean Farrar (–), a scen actress, and Beverly Reid Thurman, Jr. (–), an Associated Press editor and U.N. translator (French and English).^[2] He is of English, German, Scottish, and Scots-Irish/No

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At home with the Thurmans: Uma Thurman’s childhood home was built by her parents, a former monk and a former model

The lawn goldfish, to use Ganden Thurman’s name for his parents’ three temple dogs, were trailing Nena Thurman in a wheezing cortege. Nena Thurman’s husband, Robert, the Buddhist scholar and activist, made his way down the twisting stairs of their idiosyncratic handmade house, and the two settled into a well-worn sofa, the dogs strewed on the floor.

Robert Thurman, professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies at Columbia University and president of Tibet House US, a cultural institution that is three decades old this year, has a book to promote, a biography in graphic-novel form of the Dalai Lama called “Man of Peace.”

Dense with East Asian history, it’s not quite “Persepolis” or “Fun Home,” but it is a thrill to come upon cartoon versions of hometown political figures like Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein and Barack Obama (you’ll even find Whoopi Goldberg near the end,

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New York couple’s year relationship rooted in Buddhist faith

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. — The lawn goldfish — to borrow Ganden Thurman’s name for his parents’ three temple dogs — were trailing Nena Thurman in a wheezing cortege.

Nena Thurman’s husband, Robert, a Buddhist scholar and activist, made his way down the twisting stairs of their idiosyncratic handmade house, and the two settled into a well-worn sofa, the dogs strewed on the floor.

Robert Thurman, professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies at Columbia University and president of Tibet House US, a cultural institution that is 30 years old this year, has a book to promote, a biography in graphic-novel form of the Dalai Lama called “Man of Peace.”

Dense with East Asian history, it’s not quite “Persepolis” or “Fun Home,” but it is a thrill to come upon cartoon versions of hometown political figures such as Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein and Barack Obama (you’ll even find Whoopi Goldberg near the end, in a hilarious panel in which th