Robert Thurman, Leading Expert on Tibetan Buddhism and Uma Thurman’s Father, Dies at 84
Robert Thurman, whose erudite, exuberant efforts to expand the West’s understanding of Tibetan Buddhism earned him a reputation as “the Dalai Lama’s man in America,” died on Tuesday at his home in Woodstock, N.Y. He was 84. His daughter, the actress Uma Thurman, confirmed the death. Widely considered the foremost expert on Tibetan Buddhism in…