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Article: Inner Revolution: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Real Happiness.(Review)
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- Utopian Studies
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- January 1, 1999
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Robert Thurman. Inner Revolution: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Real Happiness. NY: Riverhead Books, 1998. 322 pp. $24.95 hardcover.
ROBERT THURMAN is an American professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies and, in the mid 1960s, became the first westerner ordained as a Buddhist monk in the Tibetan tradition of Buddhist monasticism. The present Dalai Lama, who in the introduction to Thurman's book refers to Thurman as "one of my oldest Western friends," performed the final ordination ceremony himself.
However, when Thurman returned to America from India during the height of the Vietnam war, he found himself unable to continue living his vows as a monk ...