Robert Thurman is a college professor and writer for thirty years, holds the first endowed chair in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in America at Columbia University. A cofounder and the president of Tibet House New York, an organization dedicated to preserving the endangered civilization of Tibet, he is the author of the national bestseller Inner Revolution. Thurman, who was the first Western Tibetan Buddhist monk, and who shares a close, thirty-five-year friendship with the Dalai Lama, lives in New York City.
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The Dalai Lama, a living symbol of holiness and selfless triumph over tribulation, has shared his philosophy of peace with today's turbulent world. Yet rarely do we hear him speak with such directness as in this collection of quotations drawn from his own... SEE MORE