Jeffrey Hopkins (Tibetologist)

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Jeffrey Hopkins (born 1940) is a distinguished [1] American Tibetologist. He is Emeritus of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia, where he taught for more than three decades since 1973[2] . He has authored more than twenty-five books about Tibetan Buddhism, among them the highly influential Meditation on Emptiness[3] , which appeared in 1983, offering a pioneering exposition of Prasangika-Madyamika thought in the Geluk tradition. From 1979 to 1989 he was the Dalai Lama's chief interpreter into English [4] and he played a significant role in the development of the Free Tibet Movement[5].

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ see e.g. Changing Minds: Essays in Honor of Paul Jeffrey Hopkins, ed. Guy Newland, Snow Lion, 2001, ISBN 155939160X [1].
  2. ^ Three Decades and Eighteen PhDs: The Tibetan and Buddhist Studies Legacy of Jeffrey Hopkins at the University of Virginia by David Germano.
  3. ^ Jeffrey Hopkins, Meditation on Emptiness, Wisdom Publication, 1996, ISBN 0861711106, critically reviewed by Matthew Kapstein in Philosophy East and West, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Jan., 1986), pp. 68-71.
  4. ^ Jeffrey Hopkins Bio at the Dalai Lama Foundation site.
  5. ^ John Powers, The Free Tibet Movement: A Selective Narrative, Journal of Buddhist Ethics 7,2000.
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