Robert Thurman

Born: 1941-08-03

Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman is an American Buddhist author and academic who has written, edited, and translated several books on Tibetan Buddhism. He held the first endowed chair in Buddhist Studies in the West, the Je Tsong Khapa Chair of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, until his retirement in June 2019.


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Hamlet

as Priest
Released: 2000-05-12

Modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his...

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The Art of Happiness

as Uomo in TV (voice)
Released: 2013-11-21

Sergio driving a taxi in a white Naples overflowing sadness and garbage. Pouring rain leads her...

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Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

as Self
Released: 2011-11-25

CRAZY WISDOM explores the arrival of Tibetan Buddhism in America through the story of Chögyam...

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The Last Dalai Lama?

as Self
Released: 2017-06-19

In his 1992 documentary "Compassion in Exile", filmmaker Mickey Lemle created a groundbreaking...

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Crazywise

as Self – Professor, Buddhist Studies, Colombia University; Author
Released: 2017-06-06

Western culture treats mental disorders primarily through biomedical psychiatry, but filmmakers...

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Robert A.F. Thurman on Buddhism

as Self
Released: 1999-01-01

Robert Thurman focuses on the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha in this three-part lecture...

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Free Tibet

as Self
Released: 1998-09-11

A film about the Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco in 1996.

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