Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Robert_Alexander_Farrar_Thurman

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gptkbp:birthDate	1941-08-03
gptkbp:birthPlace	gptkb:New_York_City
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gptkbp:founded	gptkb:Tibet_House_US
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gptkbp:genre	gptkb:philosophy gptkb:religion non-fiction
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman
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gptkbp:notableAchievement	First American to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist monk by the Dalai Lama
gptkbp:notableStudent	gptkb:Jeffrey_Hopkins
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gptkbp:occupation	gptkb:professor Buddhist monk author
gptkbp:parent	gptkb:Maya_Thurman-Hawke gptkb:Uma_Thurman gptkb:Dechen_Thurman gptkb:Ganden_Thurman gptkb:Mipam_Thurman
gptkbp:position	Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies
gptkbp:religion	gptkb:Buddhism
gptkbp:residence	gptkb:Woodstock,_New_York
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gptkbp:title	Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies
gptkbp:website	https://bobthurman.com/
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