In this episode Robert Thurman discusses his early years studying Buddhism with the Kalmyk-Mongolian lama Geshe Ngawang Wangyal at the Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center Labsum Shedrub Ling in central New Jersey, meeting his wife Nena von Schlebrügge at Millbrook, and his encounters with psychedelic psychonauts Timothy Leary and Ram Dass in the 1960s.
Using his classic book “The Speech of Gold: Reason and Enlightenment in Tibetan Buddhism” (now available in a new edition by Wisdom Publications as “The Life and Teachings of Tsongkhapa”), Thurman discusses emptiness, non-duality, the myth of the Kali Yuga and Shambhala, reincarnation and the Buddhist perspective on the soul.
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