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Online: Jeffrey Hopkins Legacy Series
Sravasti Abbey and Buddha’s Center,
in cooperation with UMA Institute of Buddhist Studies,
present
Jeffrey Hopkins Legacy Series
11 Buddhist scholars, 11 online sessions
Honoring the memory of scholar, translator, practitioner Jeffrey Hopkins
Sundays, September 15 – November 24
2 pm Pacific Time
On Zoom and streamed live on YouTube.
Eleven online teachings with illustrious students of Professor Jeffrey Hopkins honoring his uniquely profound impact on the Western Buddhist world and beyond.
Jeffrey Hopkins, Emeritus professor and founder of the famed Tibetan and Buddhist Studies program at the University of Virginia, passed from this life July 1, 2024. His contribution to Buddhism’s spread in the English-speaking world is incalculable. From his days as the English translator for His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, to the publication of his master work, Meditation on Emptiness, to his ingenious addition of Tibetan scholars to his faculty, and through translating, editing, and or writing dozens of popular as well as scholarly books, Jeffrey Hopkins gave his life to a profound study and sharing of Tibetan Buddhist teachings. Find a treasure trove of translations and teachings on the UMA Institute of Buddhist Studies website.
In these online Dharma teachings, eleven of professor Hopkins’ illustrious students share their wisdom as they honor their beloved teacher.
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All Dharma programs are offered freely, and your offering is welcomed.
Gifts received for talks in the Jeffrey Hopkins Legacy Series can be directed to UMA Institute of Buddhist Studies to continue Professor Hopkins’ work. To do so, write Hopkins Series in the comments box.
September 29
Nyingma, Dzogchen, and Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche in the Hopkins Oeuvre
with Anne C. Klein (Lama Rigzin Drolma)
Slides can be downloaded here.
Anne Carolyn Klein, Rigzin Drolma, is professor and former chair of Rice University’s Department of Religion and a lama in the Nyingma tradition. Her scholarship focuses on Tibetan texts in tandem with Tibetan scholarly and instructional oral traditions related with them. Her recent work engages the granular descriptions of experience available through the methods of micro-phenomenology.
Her eight books to date include Knowledge and Liberation, on Buddhist distinctions between intellectual knowing and direct experience, Meeting the Great Bliss Queen, contrasting Buddhist and feminist understandings of self, a translation of Khesun Sangpo Rinpoche’s Strand of Jewels on essential Dzogchen teachings he received, with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Unbounded Wholeness: The Logic of the Nonconceptual on Bōn Dzogchen. Her most recent publication is Being Human and a Buddha Too: Longchenpa’s Sevenfold Mind Training. Forthcoming is Lamplight on your Path: A Personal Guide to Dzogchen’s Foundational Practices, a translation of Adzom Drukpa’s Thar lam gsal sgron
Her central theme throughout is the embodied integration of head and heart, that is, the the words of reasoned and poetic reflection with the non-conceptual heart of kindly wisdom, seeking the many ways that these combine throughout Indian and especially Tibetan Buddhist literary and contemplative traditions.
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Series Schedule
- September 15
- Donald Lopez - The Collected Works of Jeffrey Hopkins
- September 22
- Guy Newland - The Two Truths According to Je Tsongkhapa
- September 29
- Anne C. Klein (Lama Rigzin Drolma) - Nyingma, Dzogchen, and Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche in the Hopkins Oeuvre
- October 6
- Jongbok Yi - Tsongkhapa’s Identification of the Object of Negation in the Svātantrika-Mādhyamika
- October 13
- Douglas Duckworth - Ethical Grounds in Prāsaṅgika and the Great Perfection
- October 20
- John Powers - The 8th and 9th Karmapa’s Explanation of Madhyamika and its Necessity for Mahamudra
- October 27
- Craig Preston - Getting into Emptiness with Jamyang Shaypa, an interactive session
- November 3
- Venerable Thubten Chodron - Why is the Vinaya Important if Things Are Empty?
- November 10
- Georges Dreyfus - The Prasangika Svatantrika Debate
- November 17
- Daniel Cozort - The Diamond Sutra on Four Delusions Regarding Interdependence
- November 24
- Steven Weinberger - The Importance of Yoga Tantra, An Introduction to the Sarva-tathagata-tattva-samgraha
