Changing minds : contributions to the study of Buddhism and Tibet in honor of Jeffrey Hopkins / edited by Guy Newland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hopkins, Jeffrey

Newland, Guy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhism--China--Tibet Autonomous Region.

Buddhism.

China--Tibet Autonomous Region.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

328 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition USA.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, N.Y. : Snow Lion Publications, 2001.

Summary:

This is a book offered in tribute to Jeffrey Hopkins by colleagues and former students. Jeffrey Hopkins has, in his sixty years, made profound and diverse contributions to the understanding of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism in the West. In his collaborations with the Dalai Lama, such as Kindness, Clarity, and Insight, and in books like Tibetan Arts of Love and Emptiness Yoga, Hopkins has reached out to the general reader, making the wisdom of Tibet accessible to everyone. Yet there is never anything superficial about his work; his recent Emptiness in the Mid-Only School of Buddhism is a magisterial display of scholarly work.

Jeffrey Hopkins is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, where he has taught Tibetan Studies and Tibetan language since 1973. There he served as Director of the Center for South Asian Studies for twelve years and founded a program in Buddhist Studies. From 1979 to 1989 he served as His Holiness the Dalai Lama's chief interpreter into English. He is currently compiling a Tibetan-Sanskrit-English dictionary.

This volume testifies to the scope of his legacy, and is offered in appreciation of the inspiring work of Jeffrey Hopkins as a teacher and scholar.

Contents:

1. The Buddha's Conventional and Ultimate Tooth / John Buescher 19

2. Ask a Farmer: Ultimate Analysis and Conventional Existence in Tsong kha pa's Lam rim chen mo / Guy Newland 49

3. Painting the Target: On the Identification of the Object of Negation (dgag bya) / Donald S. Lopez, Jr. 63

4. Cutting the Roots of Virtue: Tsong kha pa on the Results of Anger / Daniel Cozort 83

5. Ethics as the Basis of a Tantric Tradition: Tsong kha pa and the Founding of the dGe lugs Order in Tibet / Elizabeth Napper 107

6. Bon rDzogs chen on Authenticity (pramana, tshad ma): Prose and Poetry on the Path / Anne Carolyn Klein 133

7. The dGe ldan

bKa' brgyud Tradition of Mahamudra: How Much dGe ldan? How Much bKa' brgyud? / Roger R. Jackson 155

8. Demons on the Mother: Objections to the Perfect Wisdom Sutras in Tibet / Gareth Sparham 193

9. Gung thang and Sa bzang Ma ti Pan chen on the Meaning of "Foundational Consciousness" (alaya, kun gzhi) / Joe Bransford Wilson 215

10. Authorship and Literary Production in Classical Buddhist Tibet / Jose Ignacio Cabezon 233

11. Altruism and Adversity: Perspectives from Psychoanalytic Object Relations Theory / Harvey B. Aronson 265

12. Drawing the Steel Bow: A Bibliographic Appreciation of the Literary Legacy of Paul Jeffrey Hopkins and His Program at the University of Virginia / Paul G. Hackett 291.

Notes:

"Chronological list of the published works of Paul Jeffrey Hopkins": pages 312-316.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

155939160X

OCLC:

46393694