Robert Thurman on TED—& we thought we were his only live-to-video talk show.

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Jan 5, 2009

  vs.   TED's amazing: a sort of ongoing lecture series with all the people we wish we could get to. Well, when we have a huge talk show someday—whether on Planet Green or NBC ABC…

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Web site of the wwweek: Robert Thurman’s Why The Dalai Lama Matters.

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Aug 3, 2008

You could focus on high-end dashboard kits for cars, but if you put elephant journal on your home page, you've got a good chance of being www of the wwweek. I'm just saying.  The other…

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Time Magazine: Robert Thurman among Top 25 Influential Americans.

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Jul 20, 2008

According to TIME (it's not elephant, but you may've heard of it) Bob Thurman (confidant of the Dalai Lama, co-founder of Tibet House, professor at Columbia and prolific author) is a BFD. Read the…

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Robert Thurman does Miami. This Wednesday, he’ll ‘do’ Boulder.

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Jul 18, 2008

Check out the video and article. He discusses...no surprise...why the Dalai Lama matters (that's the title of his new book). The answer might seem easy enough, but it's anything but. Nothing's harder than non-viloence in…

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Robert Thurman: Why the Dalai Lama Matters @ Tibet House in NYC.

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Jul 4, 2008

The first few seconds aside (I actually know Ravenna, the American Buddhist songstress), this talk (from Bob's book tour launch event at Tibet House in New York City approx two weeks ago) offers a preview…

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