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- Birth nameRobert Alexander Farrar Thurman
- Height6′ 3″ (1.91 m)
- Robert Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University in New York City. He studied at Phillips Exeter Academy as well as Harvard, and then went on to study Buddhism and Tibet as a personal pupil of the The Dalai Lama for nearly 30 years. Robert A. F. Thurman is the father of Ganden Thurman, Uma Thurman, Dechen Thurman and Mipam Thurman and he is also a former Tibetan Buddhist monk. In 1987, Mr. Thurman and Richard Gere founded New York City's Tibet House, a nonprofit institution devoted to preserving the living culture of Tibet. Robert Thurman has written extensively and lectured all over the world. He can be seen and heard in the documentary film Free Tibet (1998) which was produced by Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys.
- IMDb mini biography by: Robb Hand
- SpousesNena Thurman(1967 - June 16, 2026) (his death, 4 children)Christophe De Menil(June 7, 1960 - 1962) (divorced, 1 child)
- Children
- RelativesMaya Hawke(Grandchild)Levon Hawke(Grandchild)
- Father of Taya Snow with Christophe De Menil; Ganden Thurman, Uma Thurman, Dechen Thurman and Mipam Thurman with Nena Thurman.
- His mother, Elizabeth Dean Farrar, was a stage actress. His father, Beverly Reid Thurman Jr., was an editor for A.P. and a U.N. translator (French to English).
- College professor of actor Jake Gyllenhaal while he was enrolled at Columbia University.
- Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman is an American Buddhist author and academic who lived for three years as an ordained Buddhist monk. He has written, edited, and translated several books on Tibetan Buddhism, and was the Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, before retiring in June 2019.
- Father of Uma Thurman.
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