Earlier today Drepung Gomang Monastery posted news about the passing of American Tibetologist and Tibetan translator, Jeffrey Hopkins:
Prof. Jeffrey Hopkins passed away yesterday at 10pm Canadian time. […] Monlam Prayer ceremony has been organised tomorrow morning at the monastery to be attended by all the monks.
Hopkins was a translator of the Monastery’s works. Hopkins was also Emeritus professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia, and the author and translator of numerous books about Tibetan Buddhism, including, with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, How to Practice, The Heart of Meditation, Meditation on Emptiness, and others. Hopkins served as the Dalai Lama’s interpreter from 1979-1989. Hopkins was also instrumental in the Free Tibet movement that began in 1995.
Hopkins’ fellow translator Fabrizio Pallotti noted his peer’s passing by calling him “the pioneer of the entire translation system of the great Dharma classics in the West.” Buddhadharma has reached out to others who knew Hopkins for comment on his life and work and will update this story as they become available.
Read a Buddhadharma Forum discussion about karma featuring Hopkins, Jan Chozen Bays, and Bhikkhu Bodhi, here.
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