Robert Thurman

Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman was an American Buddhist author and academic who wrote, edited, and translated books about Tibetan Buddhism. He was the Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, before retiring in 2019. He held the first endowed chair in Buddhist Studies in the West. He was the co-founder and president of Tibet House US, New York and its Menla Retreat & Dewa Spa in Phoenicia, NY.