[BCMA] Lecture by Buddhist Scholar Robert Thurman

Thu May 17 17:00:29 PDT 2012

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 17, 2012

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LECTURE BY BUDDHIST SCHOLAR

ROBERT THURMAN

SUNDAY, MAY 27 2:00 PM

UBC FREDERIC WOOD THEATRE

Recently hailed by The New York Times as "the leading American expert on Tibetan Buddhism," Robert Thurman is the Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University in New York and the first American to have been ordained a Tibetan Buddhist monk.  He has authored and/or coauthored over 20 books on Buddhist philosophy, practice, art and culture.    A charismatic and enthusiastic speaker, Thurman lectures world-wide.  His talk is sponsored by the Canadian Society for Asian Arts, in cooperation with MOA, and accompanies the exhibition Visions of Enlightenment: Buddhist Art at MOA on display at MOA through September 30, 2012.
Tickets $15 (all ages); MOA members $5.  Ticket price includes  lecture at Frederic Wood Theatre and admission to the Museum of Anthropology.  Tickets can be purchased at www.moa.ubc.ca/eventtickets.
Biography
Robert Thurman is Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist at Columbia University, President of Tibet House US, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Tibetan civilization, and President of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies.
Professor Thurman translates important Tibetan and Sanskrit philosophical writings and lectures and writes on Buddhism, particularly Tibetan Buddhism; on Asian history, particularly the history of the monastic institution in the Asian civilization; and on critical philosophy, with a focus on the dialogue between the material and inner sciences of the world's religious traditions.

He is credited with being at the forefront of making Tibetan art accessible and understandable in the West and, with distinguished art historians, he has collaborated in curating several important traveling exhibitions, including "Wisdom and Compassion," "Mandala," and "Worlds of Transformation."
Thurman's work and insights are grounded in more than 35 years of serious academic scholarship. He has a B.A., A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard and has studied in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in India and the United States. A long-time advocate of Buddhist monasticism, Thurman was ordained in 1962. He gave up his robes after several years, however, when he discovered he could be most effective in the American equivalent of the monastery, the university.

For more information please contact Jill Baird, Curator of Public Programs and Education, (604) 822-8270, jill.baird at ubc.ca.

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Images: (top right) Altar Set of Buddha with Bodhisattvas, Leslie Wright Collection (top left) Prayer Flags, Michael Melford, National Geographic (bottom left) Buddha, Gandhara 4th-5th century, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria 2009.004.001

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