This Classic Course was recorded in the mid 1980’s once we neared the finish of the second- Christian Millenium, many prophetic voices were becoming raised to talk about revelation and other apocolyptic visions. Some western mystics even pointed out the future Buddha, -Maitreya, regarding the a coming back Christ or Christ impulse. What do the Buddhists, themselves, say about the end of the world as we realize it? What is Buddhist apocolyptic? This workshop examines these questions with full rigor.

Robert A.F. Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Research in the Department of Religion at Columbia University or college, President of the Tibet Home U.S., a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Tibetan civilization, and Chief executive of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies. Thurman is actually a talented popularizer from the Buddha’s teachings. He is a riveting speaker and an author of many books on Tibet, Buddhism, artwork, politics and culture