Messages From Bob

Lucid Dying with the Tibetan Book of the Dead

March 31, 2015

Years ago my original teacher, the Venerable Geshe Ngawang Wangyal of the Labsum Shedrub Monastery, gave me a copy of a Tibetan volume printed in India, entitled The Tibetan Book […]

The Truth of Bliss: Bob Thurman Podcast

March 28, 2015

No sane person fears nothingness. It might be boring. It might not be delightful. But at least it should be restful, peaceful, and painless. And relative to all the troubles […]

Why The Dalai Lama Matters As The Leader of the Tibetans

March 27, 2015

The Dalai Lama continues to inspire restraint and nonviolence among the Tibetan youth in exile and all the Tibetans in Tibet, in spite of their mounting frustration at the lack […]

What Tibet’s Dalai Lama Means for Today

March 24, 2015

When I have attended His Holiness the Dalai Lama giving Buddhist teachings to large assemblies, I have had an odd sensation lately: it feels as if I have entered a […]

Nagarjuna & Evolutionary Skill: Bob Thurman Podcast

March 18, 2015

One of the main leaders of the enlightenment movement in India was a great monk-teacher called Nagarjuna, who lived sometime between the first century B.C.E. and the second century C.E. […]

Buddhist Belief in Past & Future Life: Bob Thurman Podcast

March 17, 2015

When some people hear the word “reincarnation,” they automatically think that the person speaking is a nut, a weirdo, or some kind of New Age hippie. It’s so ingrained in […]

Introduction to HH Dalai Lama’s My Appeal To the World by Robert Thurman

March 12, 2015

I am deeply honored to present to the English-speaking world His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s fifty-year-long, sustained, emergency appeal to the world community for help, on behalf of his beloved […]

Support Tibetan Culture: AIBS & The Buddhist Canons Research Database

February 23, 2015

The American Institute of Buddhist Studies, nonprofit 501c3, was founded in 1972, at the request of H.H. the Dalai Lama and the late Geshe Ngawang Wangyal with the mandate to […]