Robert Thurman

Robert Thurman was born on Aug 03, 1941 in USA. Robert Thurman's big-screen debut came with Ciao Manhattan directed by John Palmer in 1972, strarring Bob (uncredited). Robert Thurman is known for L'arte della felicità directed by Alessandro Rak, Leandro Amato stars as Sergio Cometa and Nando Paone as Alfredo Cometa. The upcoming new movie Robert Thurman plays is L'arte della felicità which will be released on Nov 21, 2013.

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.