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Georges Dreyfus
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Georges Dreyfus, During a talk at Harvard Divinity School, April 2007[1]
Personal
Born1950
OccupationProfessor of Religion
Senior posting
Based inWilliams College

Georges B.J. Dreyfus, born 1950 in Switzerland, is an academic in the fields of Tibetology and Buddology, with a particular interest in Indian Buddhist Philosophy.[2] In 1985 he was the first Westerner to receive the Geshe Lharampa degree, the highest available within the Tibetan scholastic tradition.

He currently is Jackson Professor of Religion at Williams College, Massachusetts.

Selected Bibliography

  • Dreyfus, Georges B.J. (2003) The sound of two hands clapping: the education of a Tibetan Buddhist monk. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 978-0-520-23260-0
  • Dreyfus, Georges B.J (1997) Recognizing reality: Dharmakīrti's philosophy and its Tibetan interpretations. State University of New York Press, Albany. ISBN 0-7914-3098-7

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