Liberation upon Hearing in the Between: Living with the Tibetan Book of the Dead
Robert Thurman, Ph.D. teaches at Columbia University, where he holds the first endowed chair in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies in America. He received Upasika ordination in 1964 and Vajracharya ordination in 1971, both from His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He is a cofounder of Tibet House in New York. Robert Thurman has translated numerous sacred Tibetan texts, and is the author of Essential Tibetan Buddhism (HarperSanFrancisco, 1996), Inner Revolution (Riverhead, 1999), Infinite Life (Riverhead, 2004), and many other books on Tibetan Buddhism.