
Robert A. Thurman
Robert A. F. Thurman, the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Studies at Columbia University, ?is a prolific translator and writer, a powerful advocate for the liberation of Tibet and the Dalai Lama?s cultural liaison to America? (New York Times Magazine). His books include a new translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead and Inside Tibetan Buddhism.