Donald S. Lopez Jr. : Encounters with Great Texts and Great Lamas (#117)
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Studying at Ve With Geoffrey Hopkins
In the early 19 sixties, three harvard undergraduates heard there was a tibetan lama in new jersey. They were christopher, george, geoffrey hopkins, and robert,. When they dropped out of school and went to live there a study tibeton, and began their academic careers in the monastery, not in the university. And i think, strangely, looking back on that, that was almost a revolutionary moment in the history of buddhist studies. So when jeffrey came to u va, i 19 73, this was his modelyou haveth teachersThere he met casan songbo who talked of consolame chelon
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