Biografie

Father of Taya Snow with Christophe De Menil; Ganden Thurman, Uma Thurman, Dechen Thurman and Mipam Thurman with Nena Thurman.

College professor of actor Jake Gyllenhaal while he was enrolled at Columbia University.

Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman is an American Buddhist author and academic who lived for three years as an ordained Buddhist monk. He has written, edited, and translated several books on Tibetan Buddhism, and was the Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, before retiring in June 2019.

Father of Uma Thurman.

His mother, Elizabeth Dean Farrar, was a stage actress. His father, Beverly Reid Thurman Jr., was an editor for A.P. and a U.N. translator (French to English).