The Tantric distinction : a Buddhist's reflections on compassion and emptiness / Jeffrey Hopkins

Name/Title

The Tantric distinction : a Buddhist's reflections on compassion and emptiness / Jeffrey Hopkins

Entry/Object ID

BQ7634 .H657 1999

Description

Back cover: Widely recognized as one of the West's leading scholars of Tibetan Buddhism, Professor Jeffrey Hopkins is renowned for his textual translations and original scholarship. For ten years he served as the principal English translator for His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The Tantric Distinction is his effort to make accessible the complexities of this highly sophisticated philosophy by sharing his personal, individual experience with Buddhist thought and practice. It lays out the entire Buddhist path as a living experience.

Dimensions

Dimension Description

xiii, 171 pages ; 23 cm

Book Details

Author

Jeffrey Hopkins

Editor

Anne C. Klein

Edition

Revised

Publisher

Wisdom Publications

Place Published

City

Boston

Date Published

1999

Publication Subjects

Compassion -- Religious aspects -- Tantric Buddhism Spiritual life -- Tantric Buddhism Sunyata Tantric Buddhism -- Doctrines

Call No.

BQ7634 .H657 1999

ISBN

0861711548