Jeffrey Hopkins is Professor Emeritus of Tibetan Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia, where he taught Tibetan Studies and Tibetan language for more than thirty years. He received a BA magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1963, trained for five years at the Lamaist Buddhist Monastery of America (now the Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center) in New Jersey, and received a PhD in Buddhist Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1973. From 1979 to 1989 he served as His Holiness the Dalai Lama's chief interpreter into English on lecture tours in the U.S., Canada, Southeast Asia, Great Britain, and Switzerland. He has published more than twenty-five books, including Meditation on Emptiness, a seminal work of English language scholarship on Tibetan Madhyamaka thought, as well as translations of works by Tsongkhapa, Dolpopa, and His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. At the University of Virginia he founded programs in Buddhist Studies and Tibetan Studies and served as Director of the Center for South Asian Studies for twelve years.
"A rich, comprehensive treatment of emptiness in the Indo-Tibetan
Buddhist tradition by the remarkable Western scholar and frequent
English translator for His Holiness the Dalai Lama. This is still
the standard text on the subject, twenty-five years after its
initial publication."--Rev. Danny Fisher
"An essential book for anyone interested in Tibetan Buddhism or
Madhyamika philosophy...and an inexhaustible resource for the study
of the Dharma and a major contribution to Buddhist studies."--
"Buddhist Studies Review"
"An important and invaluble work."-- "Tibet Journal"
"Hopkins succeeds in bringing this remarkable and complex
philosophy to life."-- "MLBD Newsletter"
"It brought for the first time a sophisticated account of Tibetan
interpretrations of Madhyamaka, which was an enormous resource for
those interested in Buddhist philosophy."--Georges Dreyfus
"One of the great classics... Few subsequent works can be said to
equal it in profundity and accessibility."--Jose Ignacio Cabezon,
University of California, Santa Barbara
"This is an extremely practical book. Mr. Hopkins' mind is so
infused with Buddhist teachings that he readily translates arcane
concepts into practical solutions for the myriad problems of daily
existence."-- "The Beacon"
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