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ā€œYou can’t enter into the ideal universe of enjoyment, wisdom,
and compassion – the Buddhaverse as I like to call it –
until you first detach from this world of suffering,
this prison that is the fixed and absolute self-image.ā€

Books

Wisdom Is Bliss: Four Friendly Fun Facts That Can Change Your Life

Robert Thurman 2021

This book is your invitation to travel that same road. Deeply felt and bracingly direct, it doesn’t teach about the teaching-it is the teaching. Get ready to get real, and have fun along the way, as you chart a path to reliable, lasting happiness.

Published by Hay House US, Available in Hard Cover & Kindle E-Book August 3rd!

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Man of Peace:
The Illustrated Life Story of the Dalai Lama of Tibet

Robert Thurman with William Meyers & Michael G. Burbank 2017

Why the ā€œlife storyā€ of the Dalai Lama? It is a story of one man taking on an empire, calling for truth, peace, and justice for his Tibetan people. Here, […]

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Love Your Enemies

Robert Thurman with Sharon Salzberg 2012

Life has a way of thwarting our plans, leaving even the most sainted of us frustrated and fearful at times. But losing our cool causes more problems than it solves. […]

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Brilliantly Illuminating Lamp of the Five Stages

Robert Thurman 2010

The Brilliant Illumination of the Lamp of the Five Stages (Rim lnga rab tu gsal ba’i sgron me) is Tsong Khapa’s most important commentary on the perfection stage practices of […]

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Why the Dalai Lama Matters

Robert Thurman 2008

The suppression of Tibet’s cultural heritage has the potential to set a precedent for all oppressed peoples of the world. Perched on the top of the world. changes in Tibet’s […]

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Anger

Robert Thurman 2005

Heated words, cool malice, deadly feuds, the furious rush of adrenaline-anger is clearly the most destructive of the seven deadly sins. It can ruin families, wreck one’s health, destroy peace […]

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The Jewel Tree of Tibet

Robert Thurman 2005

Few teachers in the West possess both the spiritual training and the scholarship to lead us along the path to enlightenment. Robert Thurman is one such teacher. Now, in his […]

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Infinite Life

Robert Thurman 2004

Infinite Life demonstrates that our every action has infinite consequences for ourselves and others, here and now and after we are gone. He introduces the Seven Paths to reconstructing body […]

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The Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature

Robert Thurman with Lozang Jamspal et al. 2004

The Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature (MahāyānasÅ«trālaṃkāra) was transmitted from the bodhisattva Maitreyanātha to Āryā Āsaį¹…ga, the fourth-century Indian Buddhist scholar-adept. The most foundational of the set of the famous Five […]

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Inner Revolution

Robert Thurman 1998

The New York Times calls him ā€œAmerica’s number one Buddhist.ā€ He is the co-founder of Tibet House New York, was the first American Tibetan Buddhist monk, and has shared a […]

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Essential Tibetan Buddhism

Robert Thurman 1995

A vibrant, accessible introduction to the heart of Tibetan Buddhism through its own rich literature from “the most visible and charismatic exponent of Tibetan Buddhism” (Roger Kamenetz,Ā New York Times Magazine). […]

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The Tibetan Book of the Dead

Robert Thurman 1994

The so-called “Tibetan Book of the Dead”Ā has been renowned for centuries as a classic of Buddhist wisdom and religious thought. More recently, it has become highly influential in the Western […]

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The Central Philosophy of Tibet

Robert Thurman 1984

This is the first full study, translation, and critical annotation of the Essence of True Eloquence by Jey Tsong Khapa (1357-1419), universally acknowledged as the greatest Tibetan philosopher. Robert Thurman’s […]

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The Life and Teachings of Tsong Khapa

Robert Thurman 1982

Je Tsong Khapa (1357-1419) is revered as one of the most significant Tibetan Buddhist teachers, whose eclectic and analytic studies and meditations in all the major schools of Tibetan Buddhism […]

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The Holy Teaching of Vimalakīrti

Robert Thurman 1976

This book presents the major teachings of Mahāyāna Buddhism in a precise, dramatic, and even humorous form. For two millennia this SÅ«tra, called the ā€œjewel of theMahāyāna SÅ«tras,ā€ has enjoyed […]

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Articles

Creating the World Again and Again

in The Chronicle of Higher Education

An Outline of Tibetan Culture

in Cultural Survival Quarterly

Tibet: An Introduction

in Cultural Survival Quarterly

The Ways of a Monk

in The Chronicle of Higher Education

Reality Check

in Yoga Journal

Concerning The Current Wave of “Protest Demonstrations” Against His Holiness the Dalai Lama

in The Huffington Post

The Dalai Lama and the Cult of Dolgyal Shugden

in The Huffington Post

Know Your Enemy

in Shambhala Sun

Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit

in The Huffington Post

Commentary: A Cry for Freedom

in Buddhadharma

The Cool Heroes of Zuccotti Park

in Shambhala Sun

China is Attempting to Wipe Out Buddhism

in The Huffington Post

Why Tibet Matters So Much

in The Huffington Post

Till We Meet Again

in Buddhadharma

Now is the Time for All Good Women to Come to the Aid of the Planet!

in The Huffington Post

Robert Thurman: Eleven Pieces of Advice

in Tikkun

The Dalai Lama/Obama/McCain Connection

in The Huffington Post

Fear the Right Thing

in Shambhala Sun

Crisis and Opportunity in Tibet

in Shambhala Sun

China NEEDS the Dalai Lama

in Mandala

Robert Thurman on the Situation Inside Tibet

in Mandala

Why Beijing Needs Tibet’s Help

in Newsweek International

How Beijing Can Win Over Lhasa

in Newsweek International

Happy Birthday Israel

in Tikkun

Fear and Nonviolence: China and Tibet

in Tikkun

Robert Thurman, PhD gifts from Tibetan medicine

in Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

The Meaning of the Dalai Lama for Today

in Shambhala Sun

A Jewish-Buddhist Encounter

in Mandala

Enlightenment in an Age of War

in Tikkun

The Dalai Lama

in Rolling Stone

Dalai Lama

in Time Asia

The Long Road Home

in Civilization Magazine

Boardroom Buddhism

in Civilization Magazine

Back From Barbarism

in Civilization Magazine

Circling the Sacred Mountain

in Shambhala Sun

Freeing Tibet is in China’s Interest

in Wall Street Journal

Reincarnation: A Debate

in Tricycle

In the Between

in Tricycle

What is Death? Why We’ve Got Nothing to Lose by Preparing For Death

in Tricycle

The Dalai Lama on China, Hatred, and Optimism

in Mother Jones

Avalokiteshvara in Tibet

in Tricycle

The Realpolitik of Spirituality

in Shambhala Sun

No Trade with Autocratic China until it Frees Tibet

in Hartford Courant

The Dharma Door of Nonduality

in Tricycle

Introduction [to Year of Tibet]

in Tricycle

Spirit in Exile: The Dalai Lama Pleads for the Tibetan People

in Rolling Stone

The Fullness of Emptiness: An Interview With His Holiness the Dalai Lama

in Parabola

Tibet: Mystic Nation in Exile

in Parabola

The Golden Bowl: The Buddhist Path of Limitless Generosity

in Parabola

The Politics of Enlightenment

in Lindisfarne Letter

Trials of a Teacher

in Parabola

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