"Robert Thurman Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman (born August 3, 1941) is an American Buddhist author and academic who has written, edited, and translated several books on Tibetan Buddhism. He is the father of actor Uma Thurman. He is the Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo- Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, holding the first endowed chair in this field of study in the United States. He also is the co-founder and president of the Tibet House New York and is active against the People's Republic of China's control of Tibet. He translated the Vimalakirti Sutra from the Tibetan Kanjur into English."
"very best of translations of that important Indian Buddhist scripture. Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Professor at the University of Michigan, has claimed that Thurman's work, ""like so much of the work produced by American students of Tibetan Buddhism,"" shows ""a bias that is both scholastic and Geluk."" In a 1996 interview for the ""Utne Reader"", Thurman answers those critics who accuse him of idealizing pre-1959 Tibet: Robert Thurman Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman (born August 3, 1941) is an American Buddhist author and academic who has written, edited, and translated several books on Tibetan Buddhism. He is the father of actor"
"daughter of American millionaire Simon W. Strauss, for whom the company was named. Zina would spend her childhood in France, living through the Second World War and then moving to the United States of America. While in Hollywood, Rachevsky took a course in drama and theater. Zina Rachevsky Zina Rachevsky, also Zenaïde Rachewski or Zina Rachewsky (; 1 September 1930 – 20 August 1973) was a Russian-born French-American socialite, film actress, and Gelug Tibetan Buddhist nun. Her Buddhist name is Thubten Changchub Palmo. Zina Rachevsky was born on 1 September 1930 to Russian emigrant Vladimir Rachevski, the son of Sergei"
"Buddhism and Tibetan-Chinese politics, as she is the only known offspring in the over 620-year history of either the Panchen Lama or Dalai Lama reincarnation lineages. Rinzinwangmo was schooled in the United States for 10 years where her legal guardian was American actor Steven Seagal, prior to returning to China in 2005. That same year, Rinzinwangmo began her PhD in Finance at the Tsinghua University in Beijing. In June 2010, Rinzinwangmo finished her doctoral thesis and graduated. As both a Chinese/Tibetan and a global youth leader, Rinzinwangmo dedicates much of her time and energy to her ongoing roles with numerous"
"Karuna Dharma Karuna Dharma, known also in Vietnamese as Thich Nu An Tu (1940–2014) was an American Buddhist scholar and nun. She was the first American-born woman to become a fully ordained Buddhist nun. She was the Abbess of the International Buddhist Meditation Center of Los Angeles. Karuna Dharma was born Joyce Adele Pettingill on April 21, 1940 in Beloit, Wisconsin to a Baptist family. She attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison where she met Ben Ting Fun Lum. They married and moved to Los Angeles where he was an aerospace engineer for McDonnell Douglas. She met Vietnamese Zen Buddhist master"
"by Tibetan author-activist Tenzin Tsundue, which highlights the problems of Tibetans in exile. Quasar Padamsee Quasar Thakore Padamsee (born 20 August 1978) is an Indian stage actor turned theatre director. Both his parents, Alyque Padamsee and Dolly Thakore, are renowned stage actors. His mother was a casting director for the Academy Award-winning film ""Gandhi"" in 1982. His father played the role of Jinnah in the same movie. He studied English Literature at St. Xavier's College in Mumbai. Though he started his career following his father, as an adman, he soon switched full-time theatre by starting Mumbai based theatre company called"
"Thubten Chodron Thubten Chodron, born Cheryl Greene, is an American Tibetan Buddhist nun, author, teacher, and the founder and abbess of Sravasti Abbey, the only Tibetan Buddhist training monastery for Western nuns and monks in the United States. Chodron is a central figure in the reinstatement of the Bhikshuni (tib. Gelongma) ordination of women. She is a student of the 14th Dalai Lama, Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche, Lama Thubten Yeshe, Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, and other Tibetan masters. She has published many books on Buddhist philosophy and meditation, and is the only nun who has co-authored a book with the Dalai Lama—""Buddhism:"
"Abbot Investiture of Tibetan Buddhist monk and photographer ""[http://www.nicholasvreeland.com/ [Nicholas Vreeland<nowiki>]]</nowiki>]"" commissioned by the Tibet Center<ref name=""Tibet Center / news""></ref> This is a small document of an event of historic importance since Vreeland is the first Westerner appointed abbot of a Tibetan Buddhist monastery<ref name=""PBS Religion and Ethics/ News""></ref> Born in Bogotá, Colombia, she is the daughter of actor and screenwriter Humberto Dorado and painter Maria Moran. She worked alongside contemporary artist Luis Cantillo for over ten years they claim to ""continue to comment and participate in each others endeavors"" but each of them currently pursues their own individual work"
"professor who teaches acting at California State Polytechnic University and a first generation immigrant of the Shona people of Zimbabwe, while her mother, who is of Danish, Italian, Norwegian, Irish and English descent, teaches physical therapy at California State University, Northridge. Her parents met each other on a blind date during their time as undergrads at the University of Iowa. Tinashe's name means ""We are with God"" in the Shona language. She has two younger brothers, Thulani and Kudzai. She and her family moved to Los Angeles, California when she was eight years old. She attended Crescenta Valley High School"
"in Southeast Asia, and then studied and ordained in the Thai Forest Tradition under Ajahn Chah, a major figure in 20th-century Thai Buddhism. Sharon Salzberg went to India in 1971 and studied with Dipa Ma, a former Calcutta housewife trained in vipassana by Māhāsai Sayādaw. The Thai Forest Tradition also has a number of branch monasteries in the United States, including Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery (Ajahn Pasanno, Abbot), Metta Forest Monastery (with Thanissaro Bhikkhu as Abbot) and Jetavana Temple Forest Monastery. Goldstein and Kornfield met in 1974 while teaching at the Naropa Institute in Colorado. The next year, Goldstein, Kornfield, and"
"Pema Chödrön Pema Chödrön (born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown July 14, 1936) is an American Tibetan Buddhist. She is an ordained nun, acharya and disciple of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Chödrön has written several dozen books and audiobooks, and is principal teacher at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia, Canada. Chödrön was born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown in 1936 in New York City. She attended Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut and grew up on a New Jersey farm with an older brother and sister. She obtained a bachelor's degree in English literature from Sarah Lawrence College and a master’s in elementary education from the University"
"of Interbeing and the International Zen Institute Noorderpoort monastery/retreat centre in Drenthe, led by Jiun Hogen Roshi. Perhaps the most widely visible Buddhist leader in the world is Tenzin Gyatso, the current Dalai Lama, who first visited the United States in 1979. As the exiled political leader of Tibet, he has become a popular cause célèbre. His early life was depicted in Hollywood films such as ""Kundun"" and ""Seven Years in Tibet"". He has attracted celebrity religious followers such as Richard Gere and Adam Yauch. The first Western-born Tibetan Buddhist monk was Robert A. F. Thurman, now an academic supporter"
"SoCal. She had two daughters, Chrystine and Elan. Venerable Karuna Dharma died on February 22, 2014 from complications of Alzheimer's Disease. Karuna Dharma Karuna Dharma, known also in Vietnamese as Thich Nu An Tu (1940–2014) was an American Buddhist scholar and nun. She was the first American-born woman to become a fully ordained Buddhist nun. She was the Abbess of the International Buddhist Meditation Center of Los Angeles. Karuna Dharma was born Joyce Adele Pettingill on April 21, 1940 in Beloit, Wisconsin to a Baptist family. She attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison where she met Ben Ting Fun Lum. They"
"became a Buddhist and went back to India where, due to Wangyal's introduction, Thurman studied with Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama Thurman was ordained by the Dalai Lama in 1965, the first American Buddhist monk of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, and the two became close friends. In 1967, Thurman returned to the United States and renounced his monk status (which required celibacy) to marry his second wife, German-Swedish model and psychotherapist Nena von Schlebrügge, who was divorced from Timothy Leary. Thurman obtained an M.A in 1969 and a Ph.D. in Sanskrit Indian Studies in 1972 from Harvard. He was"
"his father John Bush. Among the museums who have presented the documentary trilogy are the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery of Australia, the Asian Civilisations Museum, the Rubin Museum of Art, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Asia Society in New York. In 2011, ""Journey Into Buddhism"" was broadcast across the USA on over 150 PBS stations, presented by WGBH Boston and American Public Television. The trilogy is distributed by PBS for home video The third film, ""Vajra Sky Over Tibet"", was endorsed by the Dalai Lama, called “an illuminating meditation” by Variety, “astonishingly lovely” by the"
"Zina Rachevsky Zina Rachevsky, also Zenaïde Rachewski or Zina Rachewsky (; 1 September 1930 – 20 August 1973) was a Russian-born French-American socialite, film actress, and Gelug Tibetan Buddhist nun. Her Buddhist name is Thubten Changchub Palmo. Zina Rachevsky was born on 1 September 1930 to Russian emigrant Vladimir Rachevski, the son of Sergei Rachevski, a Russian colonel killed at Port Arthur in 1904 at the Ambassador Hotel, owned by SW Straus & Co. Vladimir Rachevski was the brother of Zinaida Rachevskaya, who had married the exiled Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia. Zina's mother, Harriet Strauss Rachevsky, was the"
"Rinpoche in 1994. During his first several extended visits to the U.S. in 1994 and 1995, he met and gave Buddhist teachings to a number of celebrities and scholars, including the film director Oliver Stone, and actor Steven Seagal, and was welcomed at Tibetan Buddhist centers across the country. His early translators were Erik Drew and Richard Barron (Chokyi Nyima). Several of the attendant Lamas who accompanied him from Golog eventually settled in the U.S., including Lama Chonam and Lama Lhanang in California. His two youngest sons, Tulku Hungkar Dorje and Tulku Dorje Trengpo, also often accompanied him on those"
"visible Buddhist teacher in the west is the much-travelled Tenzin Gyatso, the current Dalai Lama, who first visited the United States in 1979. As the exiled political leader of Tibet, he is now a popular ""cause célèbre"" in the west. His early life was depicted in glowing terms in Hollywood films such as ""Kundun"" and ""Seven Years in Tibet"". He has attracted celebrity religious followers such as Richard Gere and Adam Yauch. All four of the main Tibetan Buddhist schools are now established in the West. Tibetan lamas such as the Karmapa (Rangjung Rigpe Dorje), Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Geshe Wangyal,"
"United States. In 1972, the American Institute of Buddhist Studies was founded as suggested by the Dalai Lama and Geshe Ngawang Wangyal. Dr. Wangyal translated two volumes of popular Tibetan and Sanskrit stories illustrative of Buddhist teachings, ""The Door of Liberation"" and ""The Prince Who Became a Cuckoo."" With Brian Cutillo, he also translated the ""Illuminations of Sakya-Pandita"" published by (LOTSAWA 1988). The book is now out-of-print. Among his students were Dr. Robert Thurman (Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University), Dr. Jeffrey Hopkins (Professor Emeritus University of Virginia), and the painter and drawing teacher Ted Seth Jacobs Ngawang"
"many years directly with yoga master Bikram Choudhury and is featured in both of his books Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class. She taught at Bikram Yoga College in Encinitas, California. She teaches weekly yoga classes at the Bikram HQ in Los Angeles and for the Beverly Hills Department of Parks. In addition to these new ventures, Tsu has continued to act in TV and film roles over the years, although after she adopted her niece from China as her daughter, she concentrated primarily on being a mother. Irene Tsu Irene Tsu (born November 4, 1944) is a Chinese American actress who"
"professor of religion at Amherst College from 1973 to 1988, when he accepted a position at Columbia University as professor of religion and Sanskrit. At Amherst College Thurman met his lifelong friend Prof. Lal Mani Joshi, a distinguished Indian Buddhist scholar. In 1986, Thurman created Tibet House U.S. with Nena von Schlebrügge, Richard Gere and Philip Glass at the request of the Dalai Lama. Tibet House is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help preserve Tibetan Culture in exile. In 2001, the Pathwork Center, a retreat center on Panther Mountain in Phoenicia, New York, was donated to Tibet House."
"of California, Berkeley. Chödrön began studying with Lama Chime Rinpoche during frequent trips to London over a period of several years. While in the US she studied with Trungpa Rinpoche in San Francisco. In 1974, she became a novice Buddhist nun under Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, the sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa. In Hong Kong in 1981 she became the first American in the Vajrayana tradition to become a fully ordained nun or bhikṣuṇī. Trungpa appointed Chödrön director of the Boulder Shambhala Center (Boulder Dharmadhatu) in Colorado in the early 1980s. Chödrön moved to Gampo Abbey in 1984, the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery"
"Little Buddha Little Buddha is a 1993 Italian-French-British drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Chris Isaak, Bridget Fonda and Keanu Reeves as Prince Siddhartha (the Buddha before his enlightenment). It is produced by Bertolucci's usual collaborator, Jeremy Thomas. Tibetan Buddhist monks from a monastery in Bhutan, led by Lama Norbu, are searching for a child who is the rebirth of a great Buddhist teacher, Lama Dorje. Lama Norbu and his fellow monks believe they have found a candidate for the child in whom Lama Dorje is reborn: an American boy named Jesse Konrad, the young son of an"
"mother is a Tamilian. She finished her schooling in Willetton Senior High School in Perth. Studied English and Creative Arts (Drama) in Murdoch University , Australia and graduated in 2010 before she moved to U.S. to study Acting at New York Film Academy. She started her modelling career in U.S. and then started her acting career in Tamil film industry. She started her career as a model in 2013 before making a decision to become an actress. She moved to India to pursue her career in acting in the Indian film industry as well as in modelling. She has won"
"Deer Park Buddhist Center and Monastery The Deer Park Buddhist Center and Monastery in Oregon, Wisconsin is headed by Geshe Lhundub Sopa, the first Tibetan tenured professor in an American University who taught Buddhist philosophy, language and culture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison for 30 years. During that time, Geshe Sopa trained many of this country’s first generation of respected Buddhist scholars and translators, including Jeffrey Hopkins, José Ignacio Cabezón, and John Makransky. The Deer Park Corp. is in the process of building a new $2.7M temple project to house an extensive collection of Tibetan art and artifacts, provide greater"
"world-renowned Tibetan Buddhist master Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and his British wife Diana. At the age of three, Mukpo was identified by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche as the reincarnation of the late Shechen Kongtrul Rinpoche (the Jamgon Kongtrul of Shechen), one of his own father's teachers in Tibet. Three-year-old Gesar was then enthroned as a tulku in Berkeley, California. In the film, Mukpo's British mother describes her scandalous marriage to a Tibetan monk, and her vision in a dream of a being who asked to be her son. When Gesar was born and was identified as a tulku, his father believed he"
"and students. She was an actress in India in the 1960s and early 1970s. More recently in the United States she has appeared on such shows as """", ""Third Watch"", and """", and in movies such as ""The Guru"" (2002) and ""ABCD"" (1999). She is the mother of the actress Purva Bedi. In 2007 she was awarded 100,000 rupees by Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan for her contributions to Hindi language and literature. In January 2006 she was honored by Sahitya Academy in Delhi for her contributions to Hindi literature. Bedi began her writing career in high school and college, entering"
"Story"". In the 1997 movie ""Seven Years in Tibet"", starring Brad Pitt and David Thewlis, a film based on the book by Heinrich Harrer, Jetsun Pema portrayed her real-life mother in the film as the mother of the young 14th Dalai Lama. In the Nickelodean series """", the wife of Korra's Airbending Master Tenzin is named ""Pema"", in honor of Jetsun Pema. Tenzin is himself named in honor of Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th incarnation of the Dalai Lama. Jetsun Pema (activist) Jetsun Pema (Tibetan: རྗེ་བཙུན་པདྨ་; Wylie: rje btsun padma; , born July 7, 1940) is the sister of the 14th"
"Tsultrim Allione Lama Tsultrim Allione is an author and teacher who has studied in Tibetan Buddhism's Karma Kagyu lineage. She was born in 1947 in Maine under the name Joan Rousmanière Ewing. She first travelled to India and Nepal in 1967, returned in 1969 and January 1970 she became one of the first American women to be ordained as a Tibetan nun. She was given her vows by the Karmapa, from the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, who gave her the name Karma Tsultrim Chodron. Allione gave back her monastic vows four years later and married. She has given"
"become a popular cause célèbre, attracting celebrity religious followers such as Richard Gere and Adam Yauch. His early life was depicted in Hollywood films such as ""Kundun"" and ""Seven Years in Tibet"". An early Western-born Tibetan Buddhist monk was Robert A. F. Thurman, now an academic supporter of the Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama maintains a North American headquarters in Ithaca, New York. The Dalai Lama's family has strong ties to America. His brother Thubten Norbu fled China after being asked to assassinate his brother. He was himself a Lama, the Takster Rinpoche, and an abbot of the Kumbum Monastery"
"Etta Lee Etta Lee (born Etta Lee Frost) was an Asian-American silent film actress. Lee was born on September 12, 1906, in Kauai, Hawaii. She was of Chinese and French descent; her father was a Chinese medical doctor and her mother was of French ancestry. She grew up in California and went on to get her degree in education at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Lee moved back to Hawaii to be a teacher, before returning to Los Angeles to begin her career as an actress. Throughout her film career, Lee was cast mainly in roles featuring stereotypical depictions of"
"at Sravasti Abbey in Washington State, USA when she not on her international teaching tours. The Abbey has a yearly program of weekly teachings as well as various teaching and meditation retreats: The international teaching schedule can also be accessed via the Abbey events page. Edited by Thubten Chodron: Thubten Chodron Thubten Chodron, born Cheryl Greene, is an American Tibetan Buddhist nun, author, teacher, and the founder and abbess of Sravasti Abbey, the only Tibetan Buddhist training monastery for Western nuns and monks in the United States. Chodron is a central figure in the reinstatement of the Bhikshuni (tib. Gelongma)"
"the Baltimore Zen Center. Recently, many Korean Buddhist monks have come to the United States to spread the Dharma. They are establishing temples and zen (Korean, 'Seon') centers all around the United States. For example, Hyeonho established the Goryosah Temple in Los Angeles in 1979, and Muil Woohak founded the Budzen Center in New York. Vietnamese Zen (""Thiền"") teachers in America include Thich Thien-An and Thich Nhat Hanh. Thich Thien-An came to America in 1966 as a visiting professor at UCLA and taught traditional Thien meditation. Thich Nhat Hanh was a monk in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. In 1966,"