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Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey Hopkins is Professor Emeritus of Tibetan Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia, where he taught Tibetan studies and Tibetan language for more than thirty years. He received a BA magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1963, trained for five years at the Lamaist Buddhist Monastery of America (now the Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center) in New Jersey, and received a PhD in Buddhist Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1973. From 1979 to 1989 he served as His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s chief interpreter into English on lecture tours in the U.S., Canada, Southeast Asia, Great Britain, and Switzerland. He has published more than twenty-five books, including Meditation on Emptiness, a seminal work of English language scholarship on Tibetan Madhyamaka thought, as well as translations of works by Tsongkhapa, Dolpopa, and His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. 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. Klappentext Tantra constitutes the fabric of a Tibetan Buddhist's daily practice! but no practice of tantra can be successful without adherence to the tantric precepts! or vows. Tsongkhapa! the founder of the Dalai Lama's tradition! is perhaps the greatest philosopher ever produced by Tibet's Buddhist culture! and remains a figure of immense significance. This book is the first English translation of his explanation of the tantric precepts. Zusammenfassung Tantra! or Vajrayana! Buddhism is a set of esoteric practices that involve mantra recitation and complex visualizations. Tantra constitutes the fabric of a Tibetan Buddhist's daily practice! but no practice of tantra can be successful without adherence to the tantric precepts! the highest of three complementary sets of vows. Tsongkhapa is perhaps the greatest philosopher ever produced by Tibet's Buddhist culture! and this book is a translation of his explanation of the tantric precepts. ...
