LightNews — News, ranked by scholars

January 24, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Cyn

@starfishgirl.bsky.social

substack.com/@bobthurman/... Words of Wisdom

It's Not Climate Change—It's Climate Destruction

October 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM

Shanna Banana

@sratchley.bsky.social

Feeling this transition
@sft-international.bsky.social
#TibetHouse
#BobThurman
#HHDL

Shanna Banana @sratchley.bsky.social · Jun 18

Sunset near pikes peak, with a fence and Tibetan prayer flags in the foreground.
For Bob Thurman. Thank you for your efforts.
May the clear white light surround you.

June 18, 2026 at 2:36 AM

Cyn

@starfishgirl.bsky.social

Robert Thurman on Substack

This is a very important appeal. Mr. Roberts can you hear and think straight?

ICT mourns the passing of Robert Thurman, an iconic Tibetan Buddhist scholar and lifelong advocate for Tibet

May 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM

Bhuchung K. Tsering

@bhuchung.bsky.social

HH the DalaiLama on #BobThurman “Bob lived a meaningful life and has left behind a legacy that will continue to inspire future students of Tibetan Buddhism and culture fir generations to come”

June 17, 2026 at 6:52 PM

Bhuchung K. Tsering

@bhuchung.bsky.social

“Bob was a steadfast friend and tireless advocate for the Tibetan people and His Holiness the Dalai Lama," ICT Chair #RichardGere on #BobThurman , adding "together we were able to do much to spread awareness of the profundity of Tibetan culture..." savetibet.org/ict-mourns-t...

June 17, 2026 The Tibet world suffered a major loss

savetibet.org

June 18, 2026 at 3:12 PM

Ben Bell

@benjaminvanbell7.bsky.social

Shantideva understood something revolutionary:

If you want to become truly happy, stop obsessing over yourself all the time.

The Bodhisattva is not some heavenly saint floating above the world. A Bodhisattva is someone courageous enough to care for others in the midst of this suffering world....

Shantideva understood something revolutionary: If you want to become truly happy, stop obsessing over yourself all the time. The Bodhisattva is not some heavenly saint floating above the world. A Bo...

May 18, 2026 at 3:56 PM

Anne Deneen

@greenmountainrev.bsky.social

The future will not be shaped by intelligence alone. It will be shaped by the relationship between intelligence and compassion. We are creating extraordinary technologies. The question is whether w...

June 14, 2026 at 12:35 AM

hal421.bsky.social

@hal421.bsky.social

A Christmas message — expansive, imperfect, and offered in love.

Watch now | In this holiday reflection, I speak to Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and the Winter Solstice as moments of returning light — not as possessions of any one tradition, nation, or theology, b...

December 24, 2025 at 11:31 PM

Cyn

@starfishgirl.bsky.social

Yes. He will have replaced Benedict Arnold!

October 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM

Theosophical Society of San Francisco

@sftslodge.bsky.social

“I’ve been returning to Shantideva lately because I feel these teachings speak directly to the confusion of our time … absolutely brilliant - funny, vast, psychologically profound … spending time w/ these teachings can genuinely help us become less afraid & more joyful human beings
So we continue”

I’ve been returning to Shantideva lately because I feel these teachings speak directly to the confusion of our time. So much of modern life conditions us into fear, isolation, competition, and the fe...