In the mosaic of the world's many cultures, the resilient Buddhistic culture of Tibet has a unique role to play. In his timely lecture, Professor Thurman presents its unique characteristics, a sketch of its genesis, a survey of what it is contributing to the world today, and what more it will contribute soon. Robert Thurman is co-founder and president of The Tibet House in New York City. He is also a professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia University and serves as president of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies. To learn more about Robert Thurman, please click here.

Monday, Nov. 4, 2013
7:30 p.m.
Lecture Center 100, SUNY NEW PALTZ

Box Office open Monday - Friday 11:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Sept. 16 - Oct. 18 (closed Oct. 14 & 15) and Nov. 4 in the Parker Theatre lobby. Also open one hour prior to the event in the Lecture Center lobby, where online purchased tickets may be picked up at will call.

Tickets:

$13 - SUNY New Paltz Alumni/Faculty/Staff; Seniors (62+); non-SUNY New Paltz students

$18 - General Public

SUNY New Paltz students are admitted FREE with New Paltz ID and on a first come-first serve basis. One ticket per student. Tickets may be picked up in advance at the Parker Theatre Box Office or in the Lecture Center lobby the night of the event.

For further information, please call 845-257-3880, 845-257-3972 or e-mail development@newpaltz.edu.

Please be sure to visit Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art, at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art through Dec. 15. www.newpaltz.edu/museum.

Dave Barry
Author, 2008

Jonathan Alter
TV Analyst & Author
2009

Cory Booker
Newark, NJ Mayor
2009

Tobias Wolff
Author, 2010

John Wideman
Author, 2010

Ray Suarez
Senior Correspondent, 2011

Janna Levin
Author, 2011

Debra Humphrys
Business Executive, 2012

Amy Waldman
Author, 2012

Dennis Ross
Ambassador, 2013

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About the SUNY New Paltz Distinguished Speaker Series:

Now in its sixth successful year, our Distinguished Speaker Series features high-profile individuals from literature, public affairs and popular culture, with each presentation attracting the campus community and the wider public, generating media coverage, and providing memorable experiences for our students. The college received a generous gift from a private donor to underwrite part of this series on campus.

Focusing on the role of intellectual life in the Hudson Valley, New Paltz provides one of the nation's most open, diverse, and artistic environments in order to prepare students to excel in rapidly changing times that demand creativity and worldliness.

The goal of the Distinguished Speaker Series is to connect community members, alumni, friends, faculty, staff, students and their families with well-known authors, policy makers and leaders, scientists, media experts, business people, and other luminaries, on our campus.

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