Tibetan Buddhism

Robert Thurman introduces his book, Why the Dalai Lama Matters. Dr. Thurman holds the first endowed chair in Buddhist Studies in the West, the Jey Tsong Khapa Chair in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies. After schooling at Harvard, he studied Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism for almost thirty years as a personal student of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Dr. Thurman is a prolific author and tireless advocate of bringing Buddhist teachings to a broader Western audience. Time Magazine named him one of the "25 Most Influential Americans."