Robert Thurman, PhD
NY Open Center
Robert Thurman, a Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia University, President of Tibet House U.S., and President of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies, which is dedicated to the publication of translations of important Tibetan artistic and scientific treatises, is the author of many books on Tibet, Buddhism, art, politics, and culture, and is a Vajracharya (Vajrayana Buddhist priest) in HH the Dalai Lama’s ecumenical order of Tibetan Buddhism.
