Tibetans call their cherished tradition of Buddhism a "wish-fulfilling jewel tree" for its power to generate bliss and enlightenment within all who absorb its teachings. This path to enlightenment, it is taught, requires more than a sitting meditatio...

The Jewel Tree of Tibet

One of the 25 most influential people in America according to Time magazine, and "the leading American expert on Tibetan Buddhism" ( The New York Times), Robert Thurman illuminates the Tibetan Book of the Dead with up-to-date insights for modern audi...

Liberation Upon Hearing in the Between

One of is America's most popular and charismatic Buddhists writes about taking responsibility for our own happiness and our actions. Infinite Life demonstrates that our every action has infinite consequences for ourselves and others, here and now, an...

Infinite Life

The most accessible and informative version of the Buddhist classic available in English, with instruction in meditation, illuminating commentary, and guidance in the practical use of the prayers. The so-called Tibetan Book of the Dead has been renow...

The Tibetan Book of the Dead

Robert Thurman's Basic Buddhism is a collective series of five lectures he has given on Buddhism. In these lectures, Thurman patiently takes apart each jewel of Buddhism: The Buddha as the teacher of enlightenment, the Dharma as the teaching, or enli...

Basic Buddhism

Spiritual disciplines often seem remote from the realities of our daily lives. Yet there is a Mahayana Scripture which presents a model of enlightened practice in the midst of urban living, the Vimalakirti Sutra. This teaches a non-dualistic wisdom a...

The Yoga of Ordinary Living

This Classic Course explores the unfolding of the genius and wisdom in each of us in the quest for the liberating insight into selflessness. In the context of our modern quest for a new vision of reality, Robert Thurman discusses the deepest issues o...

Buddhist Theory of Relativity

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 hi...

The Path to Tranquility

"Robert Thurman is a living treasure, one of today's most provocative spiritual thinkers." (Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence) Robert Thurman, the preeminent scholar and interpreter of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy for the modern world, ...

Wisdom Is Bliss

This classic course was recorded in the mid 1980's as we neared the end of the second Christian Millennium; many prophetic voices were being raised to speak of revelation and other apocalyptic visions. Some western mystics even mentioned the future B...

Modern Thought in Buddhism

Robert Thurman, Ph.D., and Deepak Chopra examine many concepts relating to compassion, enlightenment, and Buddhism on this audio program. Some of the conclusions that the two make include: The heart of the teaching of the Buddha is that enlightenment is getting to that level of awareness, and compassion doesn't just mean feeling the suffering of others, it means really helping them overcome their pain.

The Path to Enlightenment

A growing number of people are beginning to see things in a radically different way. In other words, more and more of us are starting to "wake up" spiritually - to discover an entirely new identity beyond the usual sense of who we think we are. But w...

Waking Up: Volume 5

Columbia University professor Robert Thurman stands alone among scholars of Tibetan Buddhism in the West. He was the first Westerner to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist monk, and he is the renowned translator of many seminal Buddhist texts, includin...

Making the World We Want

Robert Thurman discusses modernity as part of a series on different aspects of Tibet and Tibetan history.

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