Modern Thought in Buddhism
Written by Robert Thurman
Narrated by Robert Thurman
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About this audiobook
This Classic Course was recorded in the mid 1980's as we neared the end of the second- Christian Millenium, many prophetic voices were being raised to speak of revelation and other apocolyptic visions. Some western mystics even mentioned the future Buddha, -Maitreya, in connection with a returning Christ or Christ impulse.
What do the Buddhists, themselves, say about the end of the world as we know it?
What is Buddhist apocolyptic?
This workshop examines these questions with full rigor.
Robert A.F. Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia University, President of the Tibet House U.S., a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Tibetan civilization, and President of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies.
Thurman is known as a talented popularizer of the Buddha's teachings. He is a riveting speaker and an author of many books on Tibet, Buddhism, art, politics and culture.
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Robert Thurman
Robert Thurman is the author of the critically acclaimed, popular original books Inner Revolution and Infinite Life and a translator of sacred Tibetan texts, including The Essence of True Eloquence and The Tibetan Book of the Dead. He teaches at Columbia University and holds the first endowed chair in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in America. Cofounder of Tibet House US and Menla Mountain Retreat Center, he lives in New York City and Woodstock, New York.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Highly scholastic and detail-based. Interesting but distracting at the same time.
Excess words tend to be a barrier to enlightenment. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Inspiring as always. Especially enjoyed meditations within. Only disappointed the last story was cut off at the end. But otherwise truly worth a listen or two...