Professor Jeffrey Hopkins will be giving two lectures at UBC (April 20 and 21, 2009):
- “Gender, Sexuality and Tibetan Buddhism: How Sex Is Used in the Spiritual Path”
- “The Dalai Lama’s Blending of “Classical” Tibetan Buddhism with Contemporary Outlooks”
Professor Hopkins is a distinguished American Tibetologist and Professor Emeritus of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia. He has authored more than twenty-five books about Tibetan Buddhism, among them the highly influential Meditation on Emptiness (1983), which offered a pioneering exposition of early Indian Buddhist thought in the Tibetan Gelug tradition.
Lectures are free and open to the public. 5 minutes prior to start, any extra seating will be made available.
UBC’s Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program lectures are are made possible by the generous support of The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation, UBC’s College for Interdisciplinary Studies, in collaboration with the Institute of Asian Research and Department of Asian Studies.
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