Jeffrey Hopkins (Tibetologist)

Jeffrey Hopkins (born 1940) is a distinguished [ see e.g. "Changing Minds: Essays in Honor of Paul Jeffrey Hopkins", ed. Guy Newland, Snow Lion, 2001, ISBN 155939160X [http://www.amazon.com/dp/155939160X] .] 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 [ [http://www.thdl.org/xml/showEssay.php?xml=/community/tibhimstuds/hopkinsconf.xml "Three Decades and Eighteen PhDs: The Tibetan and Buddhist Studies Legacy of Jeffrey Hopkins at the University of Virginia"] by David Germano.] . He has authored more than twenty-five books about Tibetan Buddhism, among them the highly influential "Meditation on Emptiness" [Jeffrey Hopkins, "Meditation on Emptiness", Wisdom Publication, 1996, ISBN 0861711106, critically [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0031-8221(198601)36%3A1%3C68%3AMOE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C reviewed] by Matthew Kapstein in "Philosophy East and West", Vol. 36, No. 1 (Jan., 1986), pp. 68-71.] , 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 [ [http://www.dalailamafoundation.org/members/en/founders.jsp#hopkins Jeffrey Hopkins Bio] at the Dalai Lama Foundation site.] and he played a significant role in the development of the Free Tibet Movement [ John Powers, [http://www.buddhistethics.org/7/powers001.html The Free Tibet Movement: A Selective Narrative] , Journal of Buddhist Ethics 7,2000. ] .

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