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3/8/99

FOUNDER OF TIBET HOUSE TO SPEAK AT SLU ARTS FESTIVAL

CANTON - Robert A.F. Thurman, a scholar, author, former Tibetan 
Buddhist monk, and  co-founder and director New York City's Tibet 
House, will give a talk on "Buddhism, Meditation and the Psychology 
of Self" at St. Lawrence University on Monday, March 29, at 7:30 p.m. 
in Gulick Theatre.
	The event, part of the St. Lawrence University Festival of the 
Arts called "Circle of Enlightenment: Tibetan Buddhist Sand Mandala," 
is open to the public, free of charge. This year's festival explores 
issues of health and healing from the Tibetan Buddhist perspective.
	Thurman became the first Westerner to be ordained as a Tibetan 
Buddhist monk when he was 24 years old. He became friends with the 14th 
Dalai Lama, and in 1987 founded, with actor Richard Gere, Tibet House, 
a non-profit institution devoted to preserving the living culture of 
Tibet. He holds the first endowed chair in the field of Tibetan Buddhist 
study in the United States, at Columbia University.
	The author of Inner Revolution: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of 
Real Happiness, among other books, Thurman is the father of film actress 
Uma Thurman.
	For more information about other events in the St. Lawrence 
University Festival of the Arts, call co-directors Catherine Tedford, 
director of the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, at 315-229-5174, or Catherine 
Shrady, associate professor of geology, at 315-229-5264.

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