“I must have been hallucinating,” she said, “but it turns out I had a father complex, which I got completely cured of.”<br />She and Dr. Thurman met in the kitchen at Millbrook, the New York estate given to<br />Dr. Leary, Richard Alpert and their followers by scions of the Mellon family.<br />Taya Thurman, Dr. Thurman’s eldest daughter, said, “You can see that my dad’s house was drawn and made by hand, which is a beautiful feeling.”<br />Inspired by Buckminster Fuller, a hero of Dr. Thurman’s, he topped the cabin with a geodesic dome built from shingles and plexiglass.<br />Dr. Thurman, the professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies at Columbia University and the president of Tibet House US, a cultural institution<br />that is three decades old this year, has a book to promote, a biography in graphic-novel form of the Dalai Lama called “Man of Peace.”<br />Dense with East Asian history, it’s not quite “Persepolis” or “Fun Home,”<br />but it is a thrill to come upon cartoon versions of hometown political figures like Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein and Barack Obama (you’ll even find Whoopi Goldberg near the end, in a hilarious panel where the Dalai Lama praises her dreadlocks and she praises his bald pate).
