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This week on Big Think, you'll hear from the nation's leading experts on religion and spirituality and learn more about why faith is becoming one of the most incendiary topics in modern politics.

Thurman talks about being a professor in a Religion department.

Thurman talks about how the United States was once the closest country in history to achieve certain Buddhist ideals, but that it has been subverted.

Robert A. F. Thurman is the Je Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, the first endowed chair in this field of study in the United States. He is also the President of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies, a non-profit affiliated with the Center for Buddhist Studies at Columbia University and dedicated to the publication of translations of important texts from the Tibetan Tanjur, and the co-founder and president of Tibet House U.S., a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Tibetan civilization. Dr. Thurman is highly-regarded for his lucid, dynamic translations and explanations of Buddhist religious and philosophical material, particularly that pertaining to the Gelukpa school of Tibetan Buddhism and its founder, Je Tsong Khapa, including The Tibetan Book of the Dead (1994), Inner Revolution: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Real Happiness (1999), and Infinite Life: Seven Virtues for Living Well (2004).

Thurman's advice is, that even in the midst of life's gloom and doom, we should try to, "figure out how to understand things to be so joyful, that even if they kill you you’ll die happy."

Steven Pinker talks about his personal philosophy and what reason means to him.

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