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Robert AF Thurman discusses the how current Geo-political tensions + Environmental crisis provide the unique opportunity for Indigenous peoples of Asia & the Americas to forge new ties and provide innovative solutions.

Video includes a call to action about the melting ice caps + snow throughout the Himalayan Plateau.

Thumbnail photo by David Breashears, courtesy of GlacierWorks.

In this session Professor Robert A.F. Thurman leads a reading of key texts & commentaries on the Kalachakra practices associated with the initiations given by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to define Buddha Nature.

Includes a recommendation of "The Sublime Continuum Super-Commentary" translated by Marty Bo Jiang, an overview of the connections between Tantra in Tibet, India & Japan and a discussion of the traditional retreats and intensive practices involved in Kalachakra practice.

This is an archive recording of the second morning live stream of the “Kalachakra Study & Practice Retreat” with Robert AF Thurman. Recorded July 2017 at Menla’s Nalanda Conference Center in Phoenicia, New York.

Having been preserved for centuries in the fabled kingdom of Shambhala, the Kālachakra Tantra is an Unexcelled Yoga Tantra system of teachings which is believed to originate directly from Shakyamuni Buddha and which revolves around the concept of cycles (chakra) of time (kāla), from the cycles of the planets and the outer world to the cycles of human breathing and our physical-spiritual development. It teaches the practice of working with the most subtle energies within one’s mind and body on the path to enlightenment, through famously complex deity yoga which helps practitioners with a basic understanding of emptiness dissolve their ordinary sense of self and re-create themselves in the ideal form of the Kālachakra deity pair in union who represent omniscient Buddhahood–the union of great bliss and the wisdom perceiving emptiness. Since Kālachakra is created of time and everything manifest is under the influence of time, Kālachakra Buddha is experiential knowledge of all manifest reality. Vishvamata, his spiritual consort and complement, is aware of all that is timeless, not time-bound, or out of the realm of time. In yab-yum union, they are temporality and a temporality conjoined and represent the full glory of the ultimate nature of reality, compassionately abiding in a vast multidimensional mandala rich with symbolic meaning.

In this short video Professor Robert AF Thurman leads a recitation of the Heart Sutra and then gives a teaching on it's connection to the entirety of the Buddha's teachings including the Kālachakra Tantra.

Recorded at the 2017 "Kālachakra Study + Practice Retreat" at Menla in Phoenicia, New York August, 2017.

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In this podcast Robert Thurman discusses the significance of March 10th in Tibetan history & in the context of the English translation of Sofia Stril-Rever’s book, “My Appeal to the World”, which is a collection of transcripts of 50 speeches given by His Holiness The Dalai Lama on March 10th between 1961 and 2011, with commentary by Robert Thurman, published by Tibet House US.

Professor Thurman further discusses the Tibetan Freedom rally in front of the United Nations this year, and elaborates on the speech he gave there.

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The song ‘Dancing Ling’ by Tenzin Choegyal from the album ‘Heart Sutra‘ (2004) by Ethno Super Lounge is used on the Bob Thurman Podcast with artist’s permission, all rights reserved.

Photo of Robert AF Thurman via Tibet Sun by Ben Hider All Rights Reserved.

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In this podcast Professor Thurman discusses the Buddhist Twelve Links of Relativistic Origination it’s perspectives on Bliss, Causation, Theism, Kingship, Ignorance, Emptiness & nirvana.

Includes an introduction to David B. Gray’s Translation of “The Cakrasamvara Tantra (The Discourse of Sri Heruka) Śrīherukābhidhāna: A Study and Annotated Translation” Published by American Institute of Buddhist Studies, dialog with trip participants and an elaboration of the Buddhist concept of Bliss and it’s connection to the Clear light of the void.

Podcast concludes with a cautionary tale about the way in which people resist the notion of infinite relativistic bliss in favor of accepted creation & destination theories and falling into a Psychotic Nirvana or what the Hindu Yoga Tradition terms Nirvikalpa Samadhi.

This podcast was recorded during the 2014 GeoEx Adventure Travel Trip with Robert AF Thurman “Bhutan: Land of the Thunder Dragon” and is apart of the Tibet House US Member Archive.

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The song ‘Dancing Ling’ by Tenzin Choegyal from the album ‘Heart Sutra‘ (2004) by Ethno Super Lounge is used on the Bob Thurman Podcast with artist’s permission, all rights reserved.

In this short video Professor Robert AF Thurman discusses the 'The Vimalakirti Sutra' in the context of 'The Heart Sutra' explaining the distinctions in the Sanskrit, Tibetan & Pali translations.

Includes an overview of the multi-perspective nature of Buddhahood & a discussion of the concept of transcendent generosity.




To read Professor Thurman's translation of 'The Vimalakirti Sutra' online please visit: http://read.84000.co/#UT22084-060-005...

This talk was recorded during the 2016 Force For Good Class #6 at Tibet House US in New York City.

A continuation of our course to further H. H. the Dalai Lama’s contemporary world initiatives, from His Holiness’ American Institute of Buddhist Studies and Mind and Life science dialogues (Universe in a Single Atom) and His creation of Abhidharma 2.0 through the “Science for Monks” programs, his “secular ethics” (Ethics for the New Millennium and Beyond Religion), His nonviolent approach to conflict resolution, including His Nobel Peace Laureate activities to seek dialogue and a win-win reconciliation with China in the face of the ongoing ethnicidal policies in Tibet (Freedom in Exile and Man of Peace: The Illustrated Life Story) & along with his emphasis on positive activism (A New Reality: Charter of Universal Responsibility).

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Tibetan Monks Debating at Sera Monastery Tibet Thumbnail Photo by Will De Freitas https://www.flickr.com/photos/ninjawi...