]> 2026-10-13T04:45:47-04:00 People/Hopkins, J. 0 en UMA Institute for Tibetan Studies 7330 Harris Mountain Lane Dyke VA 22935-1008 USA 2006-1816 Haro St Vancouver BC V6G 2Y7 Canada UMA Institute for Tibetan Studies University of Virginia http://www.uma-tibet.org/ http://uma-tibet.org/edu/gomang/gomang_first.php http://www.uvatibetcenter.org/?page_id=1933 Jeffrey Hopkins (1940-2024) was Professor Emeritus of Tibetan Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia where he taught Tibetan Buddhist Studies and Tibetan language for thirty-two years from 1973, retiring in 2005. He received a B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1963, trained for five years at the Lamaist Buddhist Monastery of America in Freewood Acres, New Jersey, USA (now the Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center in Washington, New Jersey), and received a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Wisconsin in 1973.<br>      For ten years, from 1979 to 1989, Hopkins served as His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s chief interpreter into English on lecture tours. At the University of Virginia, he founded the largest academic program in Tibetan and Buddhist studies in the West, and served as Director of the Center for South Asian Studies for twelve years. He has published forty-eight books, some of which have been translated into a total of twenty-two languages. He published the first translation of the foundational text of the Jo-nang school of Tibetan Buddhism in ''Mountain Doctrine: Tibet’s Fundamental Treatise on Other-Emptiness and the Buddha-Matrix''. He has translated and edited sixteen books from oral teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the last four being ''How to See Yourself as You Really Are''; ''Becoming Enlightened''; ''How to Be Compassionate''; and ''The Heart of Meditation: Discovering Innermost Awareness''.<br>      He is the President and Founder of the UMA Institute for Tibetan Studies. ([https://uma-tibet.org/author-hopkins.html Source: Updated on July 2, 2024, original content from UMA accessed July 22, 2020]) His own reflections on his life and career can be found here: https://networks.h-net.org/node/6060/pages/3914200/hopkins-jeffrey Curriculum Vitae available for download [https://uma-tibet.org/bod/cv/hopkins_cv.pdf here] Barrington, Rhode Island Person People *Gomang Tradition Translation Project at [http://uma-tibet.org/edu/gomang/gomang_first.php the UMA Institute] 1973 - Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the [[University of Wisconsin-Madison]]. 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He received a B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1963, trained for five years at the Lamaist Buddhist Monastery of America in Freewood Acres, New Jersey, USA (now the Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center in Washington, New Jersey), and received a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Wisconsin in 1973.<br>      For ten years, from 1979 to 1989, Hopkins served as His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s chief interpreter into English on lecture tours. At the University of Virginia, he founded the largest academic program in Tibetan and Buddhist studies in the West, and served as Director of the Center for South Asian Studies for twelve years. He has published forty-eight books, some of which have been translated into a total of twenty-two languages. He published the first translation of the foundational text of the Jo-nang school of Tibetan Buddhism in ''Mountain Doctrine: Tibet’s Fundamental Treatise on Other-Emptiness and the Buddha-Matrix''. He has translated and edited sixteen books from oral teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the last four being ''How to See Yourself as You Really Are''; ''Becoming Enlightened''; ''How to Be Compassionate''; and ''The Heart of Meditation: Discovering Innermost Awareness''.<br>      He is the President and Founder of the UMA Institute for Tibetan Studies. ([https://uma-tibet.org/author-hopkins.html Source: Updated on July 2, 2024, original content from UMA accessed July 22, 2020]) His own reflections on his life and career can be found here: https://networks.h-net.org/node/6060/pages/3914200/hopkins-jeffrey Curriculum Vitae available for download [https://uma-tibet.org/bod/cv/hopkins_cv.pdf here] Hopkins, J.;;;Jeffrey Hopkins;;;Jeffrey Hopkins;Jeffrey Hopkins;Hopkins, Jeffrey 1940 2024 2019-03-12T16:03:18Z 2458555.1689583 2019-03-12T16:03:18Z 2458555.1689583 true People/Hopkins, J. 0 0 template commons 1 [[:Hopkins, J.]] People/Hopkins, J.# QUERY062deb7fbcead6d3201753bfb1ddb9d2 0 200 1 template 13 <q>[[BuNayAuthor::Hopkins, J.]] [[BuNayPageType::!Person]] OR [[People::Hopkins, J.||People/Hopkins, J.]] [[BuNayPageType::!Person]] OR [[Performer::People/Hopkins, J.]] [[BuNayPageType::!Person]]</q> People/Hopkins, J.# QUERYcd2958b05e93a36895da99e1f43101c3 0 200 1 template 3 [[Category:Library Items]] [[BuNayTopicTags::People/Hopkins, J.]] People/Hopkins, J.# QUERY38f945ae214011897dec1be5d9486528 Books/Mountain Doctrine: Tibet's Fundamental Treatise on Other-Emptiness and the Buddha-Matrix 0 en Mountain Doctrine: Tibet's Fundamental Treatise on Other-Emptiness and the Buddha-Matrix Books/Our Human Potential 0 en Our Human Potential Books/The Essence of Other-Emptiness 0 en The Essence of Other-Emptiness Books/The Great Exposition of Secret Mantra Vol. 1 0 en The Great Exposition of Secret Mantra Vol. 1 Articles/Death, Sleep, and Orgasm: Gateways to the Mind of Clear Light 0 en Death, Sleep, and Orgasm: Gateways to the Mind of Clear Light 0 Mountain Doctrine: Tibet's Fundamental Treatise on Other-Emptiness and the Buddha-Matrix# 21b5eaf4ac66825c20c1d565c8580c38# 21b5eaf4ac66825c20c1d565c8580c38 0 Our Human Potential# 21b5eaf4ac66825c20c1d565c8580c38# 21b5eaf4ac66825c20c1d565c8580c38 0 The Essence of Other-Emptiness# 21b5eaf4ac66825c20c1d565c8580c38# 21b5eaf4ac66825c20c1d565c8580c38 Hopkins, J. 0 en Hopkins, J. 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