Jeffrey Hopkins
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] In 2006 he published his English translation of a major work by the Jonangpa lama, Dolpopa, on the Buddha Nature and Emptiness called Mountain Doctrine.[6]
Notes and references [edit]
- ^ see e.g. Changing Minds: Essays in Honor of Paul Jeffrey Hopkins, ed. Guy Newland, Snow Lion, 2001, ISBN 1-55939-160-X [1]
- ^ Three Decades and Eighteen PhDs: The Tibetan and Buddhist Studies Legacy of Jeffrey Hopkins at the University of Virginia by David Germano
- ^ Jeffrey Hopkins, Meditation on Emptiness, Wisdom Publication, 1996, ISBN 0-86171-110-6, critically reviewed by Matthew Kapstein in Philosophy East and West, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Jan., 1986), pp. 68-71.
- ^ Jeffrey Hopkins Bio at the Dalai Lama Foundation site.
- ^ John Powers, The Free Tibet Movement: A Selective Narrative, Journal of Buddhist Ethics 7,2000
- ^ Jeffrey Hopkins, Mountain Doctrine: Tibet's Fundamental Treatise on Other-Emptiness and the Buddha Matrix, Snow Lion, 2006
Works [edit]
- Lati Rinpochay & Hopkins, Jeffrey (1985) Death, Intermediate State and Rebirth, Ithaca: Snow Lion
External links [edit]
- Audio Interview Series on BuddhistGeeks.com
