Robert Thurman
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President of Tibet House US, and the Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University.
Each week on The Book Show, host Joe Donahue interviews authors about their books, their lives and their craft. His first job was as a library assistant, during college he was a clerk at an independent book store and for the past 25 years he has been interviewing authors about their books on the radio. Notable authors he has interviewed include: Kurt Vonnegut, John Irving, John Updike, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Arthur Miller, Stephen King, Amy Tan, Anne Rice, Philip Roth, E. L Doctorow, Richard Russo, David Sedaris and Maya Angelou. Joe has won several awards for his interviews, including honors from the Associated Press, the Edward R. Murrow Awards, the New York State Association of Broadcasters, The Headliners, The National Press Club and the Scripps-Howard Foundation.
Each week on The Book Show, host Joe Donahue interviews authors about their books, their lives and their craft. His first job was as a library assistant, during college he was a clerk at an independent book store and for the past 25 years he has been interviewing authors about their books on the radio. Notable authors he has interviewed include: Kurt Vonnegut, John Irving, John Updike, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Arthur Miller, Stephen King, Amy Tan, Anne Rice, Philip Roth, E. L Doctorow, Richard Russo, David Sedaris and Maya Angelou. Joe has won several awards for his interviews, including honors from the Associated Press, the Edward R. Murrow Awards, the New York State Association of Broadcasters, The Headliners, The National Press Club and the Scripps-Howard Foundation.
An audio class taught by Prof Robert Thurman at Columbia University, focusing mainly on his book ‘The Central Philosophy of Tibet – a study and translation of Jey Tsong Khapa tib: rigs pa’i rgya mtso) as translated by Geshe Ngawang Samten and J Garfield, and in Aryadeva’s Four Hundred Stanzas (skt: catuḥśataka, tib: bstan bcos bzhi brgya pa) as translated by Ruth Sonam. This audio class explores the philosophical thought of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, both in the intellectual setting of ancient India and Tibet and in the context of the current global philosophy, focusing on the Dialecticist Centrist school of thought. Today they have 20+ years of web history accessible through the Wayback Machine and work with 450+ library and other partners through their Archive-It program to identify important web pages.
An audio class taught by Prof Robert Thurman at Columbia University, focusing mainly on his book ‘The Central Philosophy of Tibet – a study and translation of Jey Tsong Khapa tib: rigs pa’i rgya mtso) as translated by Geshe Ngawang Samten and J Garfield, and in Aryadeva’s Four Hundred Stanzas (skt: catuḥśataka, tib: bstan bcos bzhi brgya pa) as translated by Ruth Sonam. This audio class explores the philosophical thought of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, both in the intellectual setting of ancient India and Tibet and in the context of the current global philosophy, focusing on the Dialecticist Centrist school of thought. Today they have 20+ years of web history accessible through the Wayback Machine and work with 450+ library and other partners through their Archive-It program to identify important web pages.