Changing Minds: Contributions to the Study of Buddhism and Tibet in Honor of Jeffrey Hopkins - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1611805287 ISBN 13: 9781611805284

Publisher: Shambhala, 2017

Synopsis

A repurposed and hearty tribute to the Western master of Tibetan Buddhism, Jeffrey Hopkins.
This is a book offered in tribute to Jeffrey Hopkins by colleagues and former students. Hopkins has, in his several decades of work, 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 all English speakers. Though there is never anything superficial about his work, his Emptiness in the Mind-Only School is a magisterial display of painstaking scholarly work.

Changing Minds contains essays that reflect the breadth and influence of Hopkins's work. Topics presented include the two truths, the object of negation, the results of anger, the founding of the Gelug order, Bon Dzogchen, mahamudra, foundational consciousness, altruism, and adversity. Contributors include John Buescher, Guy Newland, Donald Lopez, Elizabeth Napper, Daniel Cozort, John Powers, Roger Jackson, Gareth Sparham, Joe B. Wilson, José Cabezón, Harvey Aronson, and Paul Hackett.

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From the Back Cover

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 Mind-Only School is a magisterial display of painstaking scholarly work.

Changing Minds contains essays that reflect the breadth and influence of Hopkin's work. Topics presented: the two truths, the object of negation, the results of anger, the founding of the Gelug order, Bon Dzogchen, mahamudra, foundational consciousness, altruism and adversity. Contributors include: John Buescher, Guy Newland, Donald Lopez, Elizabeth Napper, Daniel Cozort, John Powers, Anne Klein, Roger Jackson, Gareth Sparham, Joe B. Wilson, Jose Cabezon, Harvey Aronson, and Paul Hackett.

"When you search for the ultimate Jeffrey Hopkins, you will not find him from the "Buddha's Conventional and Ultimate Tooth" to "Drawing the Steel Bow." But you will find a wonderful tribute to a great Buddhist scholar who is fully grounded in the living tradition of the Buddha. Each article illustrates Hopkins' vast contribution to Buddhist scholarship in America surpassing the vision of his teacher, Geshe Ngawang Wangyal.--Joshua W.C. Cutler, Editor-in-Chief of the Great Exposition of the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment

About the Author

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. Newland studied under renowned Buddhist scholar Jeffrey Hopkins at the University of Virginia. 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Shambhala
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1611805287
• ISBN 13: 9781611805284
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Newland Guy