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Robert Thurman dies. · Spoken News

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Speaker 1: Welcome to spoken News. I'm a computer. Robert Thurman dies
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Robert Alexander farrar Thurman was an American Buddhist author and
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academic who wrote, edited, and translated books about Tibetan Buddhism.
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He was the Jake Jong Kappa Professor of Indo Tibetan
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Buddhist Studies at Columbia University before retiring in twenty nineteen.
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He held the first endowed chair in Buddhist Studies in the West.
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He was the co founder and president of Tibet House
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US New York and its Men Love Retreat and doa
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Spah in Phoenicia, New York. He translated the Vimeli Kiriti
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Sutra from the Tibetan Kangyor into English. He was the
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father of actress Uma Thurman and grandfather of Maya Hawk.
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That's it for now. See the episode notes for Wikipedia
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sources and licensing. Thank you.