Mysteries of Tibetan Buddhism

Mysteries of Tibetan Buddhism

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Robert Thurman—Author
Steven Asma—Philosophy Professor, Columbia College Chicago

Noted Tibetan scholar Robert Thurman spent almost 30 years as a personal student of the Dalai Lama. Thurman and Steven Asma discuss Thurman’s book, The Jewel Tree of Tibet: The Enlightenment Engine of Tibetan Buddhism (Free Press, 2005).

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