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Buddha and Elephant at Anuradhapura

Buddhist Film Festival in Sri Lanka May 2013

Posted on August 18, 2012 by Emily Davidow

We are pleased to announce that Journey with Robert Thurman in Bhutan has been selected to be exhibited at the Vesak 2013 International Buddhist Film Festival in Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 24-26, 2013.

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Robert Thurman at Menla Mountain Retreat center in Phoenecia, New York. Photo by Emily Davidow.

Interview with Robert Thurman on gurus and love

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Emily Davidow

Delighted to share an excerpt from an interview with Robert Thurman by a fellow traveler on our Journey with Robert Thurman in Bhutan expedition, David Bullard. David is a San Francisco-based clinical psychologist, licensed marital and family therapist, and clinical professor of medicine and medical psychology (psychiatry) at the University of California, San Francisco. He offers a series of insightful interviews related to relationships, Buddhism and psychology at DrBullard.com. This …

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From MAD to MUD: Tibetan Buddhism and Nuclear Disarmament

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Emily Davidow

The recent Bob Thurman Podcast (#79), recorded during our Journey with Robert Thurman in Bhutan expedition, reveals the answers to two questions I am frequently asked regarding the film: What is the point of Buddhist education? And what does Bhutan have to do with Tibetan (or Vajrayana) Buddhism? The Bob Thurman Podcast – Episode 79 It also coincides with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, …

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Bob Thurman Podcast in Bhutan

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Emily Davidow

The three most recent episodes of The Bob Thurman Podcast were recorded during the question-and-answer section of a talk Bob gave to the Bhutan Chamber of Commerce & Industry in Thimphu, Bhutan. This presentation features in the film where Bob talks about Gross National Happiness and education. Hope you enjoy these audio outtakes! In Episode #76, Bob answers a question from Bhutan’s first psychiatrist, explaining why he’s a self-proclaimed ‘Buddhaholic’ …

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Outtakes: Flagrantly Delicious

Posted on May 19, 2012 by Emily Davidow

Bob Thurman tells the story of Naropa, illustrating the Buddhist scientific view of reality as a benevolent, sustaining energy.

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Friendly Phalluses of Bhutan

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Emily Davidow

Io9’s recent article, “In Bhutan, friendly phalluses painted on houses scare off evil spirits,” has been making the rounds on all the social networks, causing me to reflect on all the friendly phalluses I encountered on our expedition. Fitting in nicely with the theme of our latest video outtakes post, orgasm and death, here are some of my favorite phalluses encountered while filming Journey with Robert Thurman in Bhutan. The …

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Outtakes: Orgasm and Death

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Emily Davidow

In this outtake from Journey with Robert Thurman in Bhutan, Bob Thurman explores the experiences of orgasm and death, and how they might be useful in measuring Gross National Happiness in Bhutan.

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Robert Thurman on (My) Reincarnation

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Emily Davidow

One movie you should definitely see in this life is My Reincarnation, by Jennifer Fox, opening this weekend in New York and Los Angeles to rave reviews in the New York Times. (I saw it at the recent New Zealand Film Festival.) In the video above, from the Share Your Story feature on My Reincarnation’s website, Robert Thurman shares his understanding of reincarnation. …It’s not like a religious belief in …

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Share Your Story: Robert Thurman talks about reincarnation from Zohe Films on Vimeo.

Special to the Prospector - After being on display in 2008 at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington D.C., an authentic Bhutanese Buddhist lhakhang (temple) will make its way to UTEP to help continue the relationship between the university and the nation of Bhutan.

Bhutan on the Border: El Paso Lhakhang

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Emily Davidow

One of the most striking physical features of Bhutan is its architecture. I was delighted to discover in Lisa Napoli’s wonderful book, Radio Shangri-La, that the University of Texas at El Paso was built to reflect the style of the kingdom’s unique structures, making a little Bhutan on the Border. Inspired by one of the first photo essays about Bhutan, “Castles in the Air,” from the April 1914 issue of …

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Robert Thurman at Occupy Wall Street

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Emily Davidow

Robert Thurman addresses Occupy Wall Street at Zuccotti Park on Cool Revolution and the Age of Wisdom, analyzing the problems that fuel the frustration underlying the occupation and encouraging compassion for the banker-robbers who also need liberation from a system that makes them desperately unhappy. How nonviolence – cool revolution – is key, and how meditation on compassion can help bring this about. Bob explores Bhutan’s concept of Gross National …

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Robert Thurman - Cool Revolution and the Age of Wisdom at Occupy WallStreet from WhatMeditationReallyIs on Vimeo.

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