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

Hopkins, Jeffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0861711548 ISBN 13: 9780861711543

Publisher: Wisdom Publications, 1984

Synopsis

"The ideas, concepts, and methods of various religions must be tried on for size, must be lifted above museum displays, must be confronted and allowed to resonate with one's own character. It is in this spirit that I present here a personalized account of central Buddhist practices."--from the author's preface

Widely recognized as one of the West's leading scholars of Tibetan Buddhism, Professor Jeffrey Hopkins is renowned for his textual translations and original scholarship. For ten years he served as the principal English translator for His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The Tantric Distinction is his effort to make accessible the complexities of this highly sophisticated philosophy by sharing his personal, individual experience with Buddhist thought and practice. It lays out the entire Buddhist path as a living experience.

About this title

From the Author:

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.

Review:

"...compact, authoritative and highly readable..." -- The Reader's Review

"...one of the foremost Western scholars of Buddhism." -- MLBD Newsletter

"...pleasantly rewarding...it will satisfy both the casual reader and the serious student." -- New Humanity Journal

"[Hopkins is] an experienced, knowledgeable, articulate scholar-practitioneer or Tibetan Buddhism..." -- Wisconsin Bookwatch

About this edition

• Publisher: Wisdom Publications
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0861711548
• ISBN 13: 9780861711543
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192