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Buddhism 101: How Vajrayana & Tantra Works – Ep. 14: Professor Robert A,F, Thurman draws from his book, Brilliant Illumination of the Lamp of the Five Stages for a discussion on the distinctions between Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana, delving into a discussion of Tantra, the creation stage and perfectio by Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!

44 min listen

Buddhist Inner Sciences : Revealing Your Rainbow Body – Ep. 25: Yuthok Nyingthig is the most important practice for Tibetan medicine healing practitioners. The practice of Yuthok Nyingthig helps reveal the rainbow body that is each persons natural state. Professor Thurman discusses the meaning of empowerment, tantra, by Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!

1 min listen

Rebirth & Reincarnation Stories : Buddhism 101 – Ep. 8: In this podcast Robert Thurman discusses the motivational and inspirational value of examining rebirth stories first hand on the spiritual path no matter what ones background is. Providing examples from Non-Buddhist communities Professor Thurman details by Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!

24 min listen

The Truth of Bliss: No Genesis Nor Final Destination – Ep. 3: In this podcast Professor Thurman discusses the Buddhist Twelve Links of Relativistic Origination its perspectives on Bliss, Causation, Theism, Kingship, Ignorance, Emptiness & nirvana. Includes an introduction to David B. Grays Translation of The C by Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!

21 min listen

Universal Vehicle : Buddha, Einstein & Wittgenstein – Ep. 6: In this podcast Professor Thurman discusses the role of the Buddha, Einstein & Wittgenstein in modern philosophic perspectives & scientific methods. Using humorous stories & close translation of Tibetan Buddhist texts Robert Thurman discusse by Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!

31 min listen

Buddhism 101: Buddhist Belief in Past & Future Life – Ep. 2: In this podcast Professor Thurman examines the modern scientific perspective on reincarnation (the Buddhist Belief in Past & Future Life), the work of Hermann von Helmholtz on the vital principle and their context within Western religious doctrine. by Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!

28 min listen

Buddhism 101 : Meditation + Realization – Ep. 11: Professor Thurman speaks one on one to a student about meditation practices, quiescence (pali: samatha, sanskrit: śhamatha), insight (pali: vipassanā, sanskrit: vipaśhyanā) and meditative realization (bhāvanā). Includes a discussion of the common misunde by Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!

37 min listen

Freedom of Asceticism: Buddha’s Free Lunch – Ep. 10: Introduction to the asceticism as created by the historical Buddha in the original mendicant community of male & female followers of his teachings. Robert A.F. Thurman discusses the difference between Theravada and Universal Vehicle (Mahayana) Buddhi by Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!

24 min listen

Buddhism 101: Reciting the Heart Sutra – Ep. 12: Buddhisms Heart Sutra is recited at the start of teachings, events & as a blessing. In this podcast Robert AF Thurman leads a recitation of The Heart Sutra and gives an introduction to its history. Podcast concludes with Professor Thurman explaining by Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!

34 min listen

Royal Reason of Relativity: Buddha, Einstein & Wittgenstein – Ep. 5: Professor Thurman discusses the progression in theories of relativity in the west from Einstein to Wittgenstein, and shows how the Buddha set forth a perhaps more complete version of the same insight 2500 years earlier with what was later called the roya by Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!

31 min listen

Talking to Those Who Depart Through Death – Ep. 16: Robert A.F. Thurman leads a prayer for those who died in the Nepal earthquakes from The Tibetan Book of the Dead. In the Tibetan view of the dying process, death is a gateway into a journey through a dream-like landscape (the bardo), that can take up to by Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!

21 min listen

Relative & Absolute: Manjushri & Vimalakirti, Part 1 – Ep. 38: In this episode Professor Thurman expounds the profound teaching, contained in the fifth chapter of the famous Vimalakirti Sutra, which he translated and has been teaching for nearly forty years. An object of love and inspiration for many lay practiti by Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!

1 min listen

Buddha and Yoga : Buddhist Yoga – Ep. 17: In this episode Professor Thurman, Richard Freeman, and John Campbell compare and contrast the Hatha Yoga Pradipika and the Brilliant Illumination of the Lamp of the Five Stages. Bob and Richard discuss the opening verses of the Hatha Yoga Pradipika. Po by Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!

39 min listen

Pilgrimage : Buddhist Soul – Ep. 21: In this episode, Professor Robert A.F. Thurman responds to the question: “Does Buddhism believe in a soul?” Buddhism teaches that we have no inherent self, so how can there be life after death and reincarnation? In a concise and humorous way, Professor T by Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!

1 min listen

The Ethics of Enlightened Self-Interest – Ep. 24: In this episode, Professor Thurman discusses Buddhist ethics, which he translates as the ten-fold path of skillful and unskillful action. Instead of right and wrong, Professor Thurman urges us to consider ethical behavior as any action that helps us evol by Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!

1 min listen

Lucid Dying: Buddhist Inner Sciences 101 – Ep. 9: Professor Thurman discusses the experiential and physical parallels between the process of sleep and the process of dying. He explains also the similarity between this experience and enlightenment, and how sleep yoga and death yoga can be used therefore by Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!

35 min listen

Nāgārjuna’s Teaching of Evolutionary Skill & Biology – Ep. 4: In a reading of Nāgārjunas Jewel Rosary (Ratnāvalī), Professor Thurman discusses the skillful paths of evolutionary action performed by body, speech, and mind, presenting that these paths of evolutionary actions shape an individuals personal evolution or by Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!

24 min listen

Tsongkhapa : Father Philo & Mother Sophia – Ep. 15: Professor Thurman introduces the Essence of True Eloquence (drang nges legs bshad snying po), discussing his own personal experience encountering and translating the Tsongkhapas great work, and also Tsongkhapas own experience and doubts about composing t by Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!

36 min listen

Podcast Debut : My Early Years – Ep. 1: In the debut episode of the Bob Thurman Podcast Professor Thurman talks about his formative years & his own introduction to Buddhism. Includes personal stories about meeting Geshe Ngawang Wangyal a Kalmyk-Mongolian lama at his Tibetan Buddhist Learni by Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!

14 min listen

Flowing Through the Knots : Buddha & The Yogis – Ep. 26: All of us have knots in our energetic system from our conditioning and emotional trauma that need to be uncoiled through spiritual practice. However, if we try to pierce them or muscle our way through them, they just get tighter. In this episode, Profes by Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!

1 min listen

The Danger of “Just Meditate!” – Ep. 19: Professor Thurman discusses the potential dangers of cultivating an empty mind without also developing proper understanding of what emptiness is. Just meditating with our default understanding of reality can temporarily dampen our worries, but it won’t c by Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!

1 min listen

Mahamudra Meditation : Buddhist Inner Sciences – Ep. 18: Robert A.F. Thurman gives advice to a group of students who have been learning the Mahamudra (great seal) meditation. This episode is an extract from a lecture given to students of the Nalanda Institute on April 16th. Advice on Mahamudra Meditation : B by Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!

28 min listen

Meditation & Mistaken Guru Yoga with Gelek Rimpoche – Ep. 13: Introducing the Vimalakīrti Nirdeśha Sūtra, Gelek Rimpoche and Professor Thurman discuss mistaken relationships with Buddhist gurus and books, particularly in the West. They offer guidance for identifying a good guru and for maintaining a healthy relatio by Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!

33 min listen

Tibetan Uprising Day March 10th: My Appeal to the World – Ep. 7: In this podcast Robert A.F. Thurman discusses the significance of March 10th in Tibetan history & in the context of the English translation of Sofia Stril-Revers book, My Appeal to the World, which is a collection of transcripts of 50 speeches given by Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!

33 min listen

All Beings Are My Mother : Buddhism 101 – Ep. 28: In this podcast Robert A.F. Thurman discussed the Buddhist perspective on the health and happiness of all beings. One of the unique aspects of Tibetan culture is that for hundreds of years, thousands of people have been meditating on the thought every by Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!

1 min listen

Buddhist Inner Sciences : Mis-knowing – Ep. 22: The Buddhas Wheel of Dependent Origination describes the cycle of existence—the endless wheel of samsara and suffering. The first link on this wheel is ignorance, or mis-knowing. Specifically, the idea that we are separate from others. Professor Thurman by Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!

1 min listen

The Four Noble Truths & the Eightfold Path – Ep 67: In this episode Professor Thurman explains the cornerstone teachings of the Buddha: the teaching about the Four Noble Truths, and the teaching about the Eightfold Path. This episode is an excerpt from the lecture given at Tibet House US in New York City by Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!

22 min listen

Heart Sutra Part 2 : Buddhism 101 – Ep. 32: This episode is a continuation of last weeks episode on The Heart Sutra. In this episode, Professor Thurman discusses the questions: How does free will work? What does it mean that we are all effected by causes and conditions? He also discusses how shuny by Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!

1 min listen

MLK, Buddhism and Non-Violence – Ep. 51: In this podcast Professor Robert A.F. Thurman shares his knowledge of the history of non-violence & Buddhism and their influence on the social and ethical development in the countries where The Buddhas Teachings have taken root. He talks about mainst by Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!

1 min listen

Buddhism 101 : Transforming Anger to Compassion – Ep. 23: One of the Dalai Lamas slogans is: If you want to be happy, be compassionate. In this lecture, Professor Thurman discusses how to do this by opening our hearts to others, especially our enemies. Our enemies arent just other people, but within ourselves. by Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!

1 min listen

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