Tag: "precious human life"

Pilgrimage : The Four Transcendences – Ep. 83

Podcast — September 9, 2016

In this podcast Professor Thurman discusses a famous Buddhist concept of the “four transcendences,” or the “four thoughts that change the mind”: 1. The preciousness of the human life of liberty and opportunity; 2. Realization of immediacy of death, empowering one to live one’s best in the moment; 3. The inexorability of the effects of… Read more and listen »

The Preciousness of Human Life – Ep 73

Podcast — July 1, 2016

In this podcast Professor Thurman explains why, according to the Buddha, the human life is precious. Being able to change oneself by opening to a new insight; having intelligence, which animals do not have; expanding one’s empathy and sensitivity – these are just a few of the freedoms which make human life so precious. Professor Thurman… Read more and listen »

Projects

Tibet House US is a cultural embassy, gallery and lending library for Tibet, located in the heart of New York City at 22 West 15th Street presenting and preserving Tibetan Culture for the past 35 years.
Menla Retreat & Dewa Spa is a Tibet House US operated retreat center and Tibetan medicine inspired spa located in the heart of Catskill Mountains two hours north of New York City founded by Robert and Nena Thurman.
AIBS is an initiative Robert began at request of Ven. Geshe Wangyal and H. H. the Dalai Lama, to translate the Tibetan Tengyur, a collection of 4000 treatises on Buddhist Sciences by 700 Indian sages of Nalanda etc. Universities.