Meditation on Emptiness

Hopkins Ph.D., Jeffrey

ISBN 10: 0861711106 ISBN 13: 9780861711109

Verlag: Wisdom Publications,U.S., 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Buen estado.

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Reseña del editor:

In bringing this remarkable and complex philosophy to life, Jeffrey Hopkins describes the meditational practices by which the Buddhist ideal of emptiness can be realized and shows that, far from being merely abstract, these teachings can be vivid and utterly practical.

Biografía del autor:

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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• Verlag: Wisdom Publications,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0861711106
• ISBN 13: 9780861711109
• Einband: Rústica
• Anzahl der Seiten: 992