"Inner Revolution and Enlightenment Culture""Inner Revolution and Enlightenment Culture"http://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/83532Stokes Auditorium2009-04-17T16:00:002009-04-17T18:30:00
Stokes Auditorium
Distinguished Visitor, Robert Thurman, Columbia University
Mandala of Paramasukha Chakrasamvara
Description
The focal points for Thurman's presentation will be two recent widely-read books: Inner Revolution and Infinite Life. All are welcome and dialogue is encouraged.
Robert A.F. Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia University, and co-founder and President of Tibet House US. He writes and lectures frequently on Buddhism, Asian history, and critical philosophy. A personal friend of the Dalai Lama for over 40 years, his latest book is Why the Dalai Lama Matters: His Act of Truth as the Solution for China, Tibet and the World.
Professor Thurman's scholarly and popular writings focus on the "inner revolution" that individuals and societies successfully negotiate when they achieve enlightenment. He defines this inner revolution as accurate insight into the true nature of reality and determined compassion for the suffering beings. He also works toward what he terms a "Second Renaissance," which he sees currently taking place as Western culture goes beyond the 14th century European discovery of the natural sciences of the ancient Greeks that catalyzed the "first renaissance" to discover and apply in practice the advanced "inner science" of ancient Indian culture.
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