Jeffrey Hopkins, PhD, served for a decade as the interpreter for the Dalai Lama. A Buddhist scholar and the author of more than thirty-five books, he is Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia, where he founded the largest academic program in Tibetan Buddhist studies in the West.
"Anyone eager to understand the currents and interpretation that
flowed through Tibetan Buddhist literary culture and contemplative
practice will be delighted by this excursion into the works of one
of the more colorful and daring among Tibet's intellectual
yogins."—Jules B. Levinson, Ph.D.
"This book is lovingly translated and annotated. Jeffrey Hopkins
likes nothing better than this sort of challenge of explication and
here he once again comes up trumps."—The Middle Way
"This short book contains two crucial texts on the Jonangpa
School's controversial doctrine of 'other-emptiness' written by the
Tibetan scholar Taranatha. . . J. Hopkins, the translator, is one
of today's most insightful and prolific scholars of Tibet. . . .
These texts provide a clear, concise, and approachable source for
analysis of the central doctrine of a school that was, until
recently, anathematized by the Tibetan Gelukpa establishment.
Students and scholars of Tibetan thought will find the work a
welcome addition."—Religious Studies Review
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