Click here to listen to a discussion about Tibet with Robert Thurman, author of Why the Dalai Lama Matters, on Your Call, the daily call-in show of KALW public radio in San Francisco. Recorded June 5, 2008.
Alan Jones talks to Professor Robert Thurman about his friendship with the Dalai Lama and the upcoming visit to Sydney of the Buddhist Leader on 2GB radio, Sydney Australia.
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NPR Morning Edition, May 27, 2008 ยท Co-host Renee Montagne talks to Robert Thurman, professor of Buddhist studies at Columbia University, about the 22-year-old Karmapa, one of the most important leaders in Tibetan Buddhism. Some think the young lama will succeed the Dalai Lama as the next spokesman for Tibetan Buddhism and Tibet.
Rebecca Novick, executive producer of The Tibet Connection caught up with Robert Thurman in New Delhi recently and asked a few questions. Here’s an audio recording of their conversation.
A short version addressing “Why should we care about Tibet?” is also featured as an “audio postcard” at the end of the April 27, 2008 episode of The Tibet Connection radio show and podcast.
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You can buy Why The Dalai Lama Matters: His Act of Truth as the Solution for China, Tibet, and the World, the new book by Robert Thurman (Atria Books/Beyond Words), at your favorite local or online bookseller.
Photos, maps and illustrations from Why the Dalai Lama Matters. See them in large slide show with descriptions.
"In this moment of crisis, with the world's attention on Tibet and China, the huge signficance of the Dalai Lama's role can scarcely be exaggerated, since this revered figure is pointing the way to world peace and environmental sanity. In his keen analysis of China's great chance to make history, Robert Thurman offers an urgent and very important book."
— Peter Matthiessen
"I could not put this book down. I found it powerfully inspiriting to imagine a positive alternative to the sixty-yearlong tragedy wrought by China in Tibet. As Robert Thurman shows us, by reversing its colonialist cultural genocide in Tibet (and so inspiring a reversal of the murderous policies of the regimes in Myanmar and Sudan), China could truly emerge as a responsible world power and take its place within the moral community of nations."
— Mia Farrow
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