Robert Thurman

Robert A.F. Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies Emeritus at Columbia University, a former Tibetan Buddhist monk ordained in 1965 (he later returned his vows to teach as a layperson), and the co-founder of Tibet House US. He is among the most influential translators of Indo-Tibetan philosophical literature into English, having built his career on rendering the Madhyamaka and Vajrayana classics for a Western academic and lay readership. The Promised Studios curates his doctrinal and translational lectures.