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Jeffrey Hopkins

American university teacher

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born: 1940
died: 2024
age at death: 83
known for: university teacher, Tibetologist, translator

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Jeffrey Hopkins was an American Tibetologist. He was Emeritus professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia, where he taught for more than three decades beginning in 1973. He authored more than twenty-five books about Tibetan Buddhism, among them the highly influential Meditation on Emptiness, which appeared in 1983, offering a pioneering exposition of Prasangika-Madyamika thought in the Geluk tradition.

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