The Tantric Distinction: A Buddhist's Reflections on Compassion and Emptiness - Brossura

Hopkins, Jeffrey; Klein, Anne C.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0861711548 ISBN 13: 9780861711543

Casa editrice: Wisdom Pubns, 1984

Riassunto

A description of Tantric Buddhist philosophy explains such concepts as emptiness, meditation, and the Buddhist ideals, while telling the story of one man's life following the Buddhist path. Reprint.

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L'autore:

P. Jeffrey Hopkins is Professor of Tibetan Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia.

P. Jeffrey Hopkins is Professor Emeritus of Tibetan Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia and served as the Director of the Center for South Asian Studies there. He has published seventeen articles and twenty-three books, including Meditation on Emptiness and Emptiness in the Mind-Only School of Buddhism.

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 BAmagna 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, includingMeditation 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.

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• Editore: Wisdom Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0861711548
• ISBN 13: 9780861711543
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 171