Alex Grey, co-founder of Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, thanked Robert, as he paid tribute to the late author.<\/p>\n
He commented: \u201cDeepest condolences to the Thurman family and Tibet House dharma community. Thank you Tenzin Bob! Love you so much precious teacher, living in our hearts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ben Decker, a meditation teacher and programme director at Rythmia, wrote: \u201cA giant has left the stage. Robert Thurman helped build a bridge between the wisdom of Tibet and the modern world without sacrificing depth, rigor, humor, or humanity. [sic]\u201d<\/p>\n
Thurman was named as one of the 25 most influential Americans by Time magazine in 1997.<\/p>\n
He was also previously named by the New York Times as the leading American expert on Tibetan Buddhism.<\/p>\n
In a section about the Dalai Lama \u2013 the highest spiritual leader and head of Tibetan Buddhism \u2013 on his website, Thurman wrote: \u201cHis Holiness the Dalai Lama befriended me in 1964 and ordained me as a Buddhist monk, then later forgave me for returning to lay life.<\/p>\n
Robert Thurman (left) was a prominent Buddhist scholar and was named one of Time magazine’s 25 most influential Americans in 1997. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has, throughout our lifelong friendship, taught me endlessly, from initially being a senior fellow student, to a philosophical mentor and a majestic Vajra Guru, embodying practical wisdom, compassionate kindness, and heroic good humor, under the extreme adversities suffered by his oppressed people and his refugee good self. [sic]\u201d<\/p>\n
He also posted on his website: \u201cThanks to the Tibetan people, especially their living savior, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and his various emanations, I have found basic sanity in my lifelong quest. [sic]\u201d<\/p>\n
Pulp Fiction star Uma Thurman was yet to comment publicly on her father\u2019s death at the time of writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tibet House US continued: \u201cThe Thurman family requests privacy at this time. \u201cPlease check thus.org for updates.” Alex…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[72947,6876,18919,140590,6179,7126,156,60019,2209,111,139,69,3046,9939,7574,242597,242596,242595,9938],"class_list":["post-483023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-72947","tag-actress","tag-aged","tag-buddhist","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-entertainment","tag-famed","tag-father","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-robert","tag-states","tag-teacher","tag-thurman","tag-thurmans","tag-uma","tag-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}