Buddha’s Advice on Love and Marriage – Ep. 208

In this two part podcast, Professor Thurman discusses the Buddha’s advice on love and marriage and the Buddhist perspective on love, generosity and compassionate relationships.

Defining love in Sanskrit, Pali and Tibetan, Robert A.F. Thurman leads an in-depth exploration of it’s central role in the Buddha’s teachings, it’s relationship to compassion, empathy, philosophy and the practices of transformation found in Buddhism, Christianity and Islam.

Podcast concludes with a reading of Walt Whitman’s poem “To a Stranger” by Gary Gach.

Buddha’s Advice on Love and Marriage – Ep. 208 of the Bob Thurman Podcast hoto by Ben Rosett on Unsplash

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The song ‘Dancing Ling’ by Tenzin Choegyal from the album ‘Heart Sutra‘ (2004) by Ethno Super Lounge is used on the Bob Thurman Podcast with artist’s permission, all rights reserved.

“Buddha’s Advice on Love and Marriage – Ep. 208″ of the Bob Thurman Podcast is apart of the Buddhism 101 series using classic teachings from the archives of Robert A.F. Thurman to elucidate basic concepts of the tradition.

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