Watch this special report on “the plight and paradox of Tibetan Buddhists. They teach nonviolence, but their demonstrations against the Chinese have sometimes become violent. How can they persuade the Chinese that they and the Dalai Lama are not a threat?” Lucky Severson interviews Lhadon Tethong, Robert Thurman and Tu Weiming on Religion & Ethics for PBS.
Part 1 of Bob Thurman speaking on Why the Dalai Lama Matters at Tibet House U.S. in New York City on June 17, 2008. Video by Some Day Fire Productions.
Watch the lively conversation between Robert Thurman and Mike Schneider on “Night Talk”, broadcast on Bloomberg TV June 19, 2008, available here in 3 parts.
In this video welcome to dalailamamatters.com, Robert Thurman introduces Why the Dalai Lama Matters and offers a positive vision. [Read more]
Robert Thurman spoke in Vancouver at the University of British Columbia’s Chan Centre for the Performing Arts on Sunday, April 27, 2008. His talk was entitled Buddhism as a Civilization Matrix and the Current Global Crisis. The video is in 10 parts; click here to see them all.
A discussion about unrest in Tibet with Pico Iyer, Tashi Rabgey, Orville Schell and Robert Thurman on Charlie Rose, March 20, 2008. Last week anti-government riots in Tibet and a crackdown by authorities has led to calls by Tibet activist groups to stop the Olympic torch relay from going through the region before the Beijing Summer Olympics.
China Continues Crack Down on Tibet Protests China has acknowledged for the first time that anti-government protests in Tibet over the past few days have spread to other provinces. The protests erupted last week when Buddhist monks took to the streets of Lhasa to mark the anniversary of the 1959 uprising against Chinese rule. Human rights groups say dozens of people have been killed and hundreds arrested. We speak with Lhakpa Kyizom, a Tibetan activist in Dharamsala, India, and Robert Thurman, president of Tibet House US. [Read more]
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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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