As a tribute to the scholarship and teaching of Jeffrey Hopkins, this collection of essays is offered by his colleagues and former students. In his sixty years, Jeffrey Hopkins has made a profound and diverse contribution to the understanding of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism in the West. In his collaborations with Dalai Lama, such as Kindness, Clarity, and Insight, and in books like Tibetan Arts of Loveand 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 Mind-Only School of Buddhism is a magisterial display of scholarly work.
Changing Minds: Contributions to the Study of Buddhism and Tibet in Honor of Jeffrey Hopkins, Newland, Snow Lion Publications, 328 pages, $29.95.
Guy Newland is Professor of Religion and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Central Michigan University, where he has taught since 1988. He has authored, edited, and translated several books on Tibetan Buddhism, including the three-volume translation of The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment.
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Contents: Changing Minds |
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Editor's Introduction |
9 |
| 1. |
The Buddha's Conventional And Ultimate Tooth |
11 |
| 2. |
Ask a Farmer |
43 |
| 3. |
Painting the Target |
57 |
| 4. |
Cutting the Roots of Virtue |
77 |
| 5. |
Ethics as the Basis of a Tantric Tradition |
100 |
| 6. |
Bon rDzogs chen on Authenticity (pramana, tshad ma) |
125 |
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The dGe ldan-bKa' brgyud Tradition of Mahamudra |
147 |
| 8. |
Demons on the Mother |
185 |
| 9. |
Gung thang and Sa bzang Ma ti Pan chen on the Meaning of "Foundational Consciousness" (alaya, kun gzhi) |
206 |
| 10. |
Authorship and Literary Production in Classical Buddhist Tibet |
223 |
| 11. |
Altruism and Adversity |
252 |
| 12. |
Drawing the Steel Bow |
279 |
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