Hopkins, J.

PersonType	Category:Authors of English Works Category:Professors Emeritus Category:Translators
FirstName / namefirst	Jeffrey
LastName / namelast	Hopkins
bio	Jeffrey Hopkins is 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. 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. He served as His Holiness the Dalai Lama's chief interpreter into English on lecture tours for ten years, 1979-1989. At the University of Virginia he founded programs in Buddhist Studies and Tibetan Studies and served as Director of the Center for South Asian Studies for twelve years. He has published thirty-nine books in a total of twenty-two languages, as well as twenty-three articles. Jeffrey's Webpage: http://uma-tibet.org/
YearBirth	1940
associatedwebsite	http://www.uma-tibet.org/; http://uma-tibet.org/edu/gomang/gomang_first.php; http://www.uvatibetcenter.org/?page_id=1933;
languageprimary	English
languagetranslation	Tibetan
languagetarget	English
affiliation	UMA Institute for Tibetan Studies
affiliationsecondary	University of Virginia
religiousaffiliation	Geluk; Tibetan Buddhism
StudentOf	The Fourteenth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso
currentworks	Gomang Tradition Translation Project at the UMA Institute
phduniversity	University of Wisconsin-Madison
education	1973 - Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
IsInGyatsa	No
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