Changing Minds: contributions to the study of buddhism and Tibet in honour of Jeffrey Hopkins

This is a book offered in tribute to Jeffrey Hopkins by colleagues and former students. Jeffrey Hopkins has, in his sixty years, made profound and diverse contributions to the understanding of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism in the West. In his collaborations with the Dalai Lama, such as Kindness, Clarity, and Insight, and in books like Tibetan Arts of Love and Emptiness Yoga, Hopkins has reached out to the general reader, making the wisdom of Tibet accessible to every one. Yet there is never anything superficial about his work; his recent Emptiness in the Mind-Only School is a magisterial display of painstaking scholarly work.

Changing Minds contains essays that reflect the breadth and influence of Hopkin's work. Topics presented: the two truths, the object of negation, the results of anger, the founding of the Gelug order, Bon Dzogchen, mahamudra, foundational consciousness, altruism and adversity.
Contributors include: John Buescher, Guy Newland, Donald Lopez, Elizabeth Napper, Daniel Cozort, John Powers, Anne Klein, Roger Jackson, Gareth Sparham, Joe B. Wilson, Jose Cabezon, Harvey Aronson, and Paul Hackett.

PRAISE
"When you search for the ultimate Jeffrey Hopkins, you will not find him from the "Buddha's Conventional and Ultimate Tooth" to "Drawing the Steel Bow." But you will find a wonderful tribute to a great Buddhist scholar who is fully grounded in the living tradition of the Buddha. Each article illustrates Hopkins' vast contribution to Buddhist scholarship in America surpassing the vision of his teacher, Geshe Ngawang Wangyal."
—Joshua W.C. Cutler, Editor-in-Chief of the Great Exposition of the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment

"The book is valuable…excellent chapters."
—The Tibet Journa

Editor's Introduction
1. The Buddha's Conventional And Ultimate Tooth
2. Ask a Farmer
3. Painting the Target
4. Cutting the Roots of Virtue
5. Ethics as the Basis of a Tantric Tradition
6. Bon rDzogs chen on Authenticity (pramÝna, tshad ma)
7. The dGe ldan-bKaÕ brgyud Tradition of MahÝmudrÝ
8. Demons on the Mother
9. Gung thang and Sa bzang Ma ti Paû chen on the
Meaning of "Foundational Consciousness"
(Ýlaya, kun gzhi)
10. Authorship and Literary Production in
Classical Buddhist Tibet
11. Altruism and Adversity
12. Drawing the Steel Bow