According to Wikipedia, Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman is an American Buddhist author and academic who has written, edited, and translated several books on Tibetan Buddhism. He was the Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, before retiring in June 2019. He was the first endowed chair in Buddhist Studies in the West. He also is the co-founder and president of the Tibet House US New York. He translated the Vimalakirti Sutra from the Tibetan Kanjur into English. He is the father of actress Uma Thurman.
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The Speech of Gold: Reason and Enlightenment in the Tibetan Buddhism (1989) (5)
Brilliant Illumination of the Lamp of the Five Stages (Rim lnga rab tu gsal ba'i sgron me) : Practical Instruction in the King of Tantras, The Glorious Esoteric Community (2010) (4)
Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha (2008) (4)
The Kālacakratantra : the chapter on the individual together with the Vimalaprabhā (2004) (4)
Seeking the Religious Roots of Pluralism (1997) (3)
The Tibetan book of the dead, as popularly known in the West : known in Tibet as the Great book of natural liberation through understanding in the between (1994) (3)
A Buddhist view of the skill of happiness. (2005) (3)
In the Presence of My Enemies: Memoirs of Tibetan Nobleman Tsipon Shuguba (1995) (3)
The Politics of Enlightenment (2013) (3)
Infinite Life: Awakening to Bliss Within (2004) (3)
Circling the Sacred Mountain: A Spiritual Adventure Through the Himalayas (1999) (3)
Great treatise on the stages of mantra (Sngags rim chen mo) : (critical elucidation of the key instructions in all the secret stages of the path of the victorious universal lord, Great Vajradhara) : chapters XI-XII, the creation stage (2013) (0)
Tibetan astro science (2000) (0)
Buddhism, Religion or Evoluitionary Sport (1996) (0)
