Messages From Bob

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 […]