Josh Glenn, noted Boston Globe Columnist and editor of the Hermenaut, writes in HiloBrow “ROBERT THURMAN, who was ordained a Buddhist monk in 1964 by Tenzin Gyatso, the current Dalai Lama (an avatar of Lowbrow, in the most praiseworthy sense of that term), is one of the world’s most respected scholars and translators of Tibetan and Sanskrit for a Western audience — i.e., he is a Highbrow. Even more confusing: during the Nineties Thurman was best known as a mentor of middlebrow “celebrity Buddhists,” and as the father of a middlebrow celebrity. So what to make of him? I interviewed Thurman for the magazine Utne Reader in 1996.” [Read more]

(And all good men to stand up with them!)

I am excited to begin my HuffPost blogging in the wake of Mother’s Day, and a few days after hosting H. H. the Dalai Lama in New York. His Holiness, in radiant health and spirits, powerfully manifested his unwavering message of “world peace through inner peace.” To all of us enrapt as ever, he taught us the quintessence of compassion. [Read more]