Actress Uma Thurman congratulated her father on an important event by posting a photo on the web

Last weekend in many countries of the world there was a touching holiday - World Father's Day. Celebrities have differently manifested their involvement in this event, for example, Uma Thurman shared on her page in the Instagram a rare snapshot. On it, the actress poses with three children and her father - a famous scientist, an expert on Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Professor Robert Turman.

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The fact that Uma was born and grew up in an extraordinary family, many of her fans know. Mom actress psychoanalyst - Nena Thurman, a lady who before the birth of Mind had time to be married to the ideologue of the psychedelic revolution, Timothy Leary.

His father is a scholar of Buddhism, the only American who was ordained a monk by the Dalai Lama himself. True, worldly life prevailed over the future professor Turman and he preferred to give up his dignity and devote himself to exploring the amazing Eastern religion.

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The eccentric couple called their children names with "meaning": Taya, Dechen, Ganden and Mipam. Uma was named after the wife of Lord Shiva, her musical name is translated as "bestowing bliss".

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Double reason

Strictly speaking, the photo with the father in the Star Instagram appeared for one more reason. Mr. Thurman recently published another opus - the book Man of Peace. This is a novel dedicated to the life of the Dalai Lama.

The actress is proud of her intellectual father and hurried to inform her subscribers about this in the microblog.

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