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Gustavo Dudamel leads El Sistema's top youth orchestra. This is why we’re entrepreneurs. (video) On the Pursuit of Happiness: | Aurora Forum - Mozilla Firefox. Novelist and travel writer Pico Iyer joins Robert Thurman, Columbia University professor and founder of Tibet House in New York City, for a conversation on the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, education, life on the road, and things that contribute to happiness and human well-being. ROBERT THURMAN, Professor of Indo-Tibetan Studies at Columbia University Robert A. F. Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia University and Founding President of Tibet House, a nonprofit organization in New York City dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Tibetan civilization. He received Upasaka ordination in 1964 and Vajracharya ordination in 1971, both from His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

IYER, Author Pico Iyer was born in Oxford, England to parents from India, grew up in Southern California, and currently lives in Kyoto, Japan. Sharing One Secret to Happiness : NPR - Mozilla Firefox. YouTube - Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005 - Mozilla.