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If you’re interested in the topic of Compassion as it’s discussed here, please take a look at a recent book by the Dalai Lama and Jeffrey Hopkins:

How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships

Jeffrey Hopkins came to Maitripa Institute on July 6-8, 2007. The topic, Compassion, was a surprise to me. I figured he would talk about Emptiness and that it would be some kind of heavy duty intellectual session that would be next to impossible to follow. But it wasn’t like that at all. He was really fun and easy to listen to.
As our resident Tibetologist, Dr. Jim Blumenthal put it, “Professor Hopkins is the world’s leading Tibetan scholar”. And as the Dalai Lama’s translator for 10 years, he had a lot of little anecdotes about His Holiness that were just fascinating. Jeffrey, as he insisted we call him, has been in the Dharma for 45 years, taught for over 30 years and has published many seminal works of his own, and in conjunction with great lamas. He is a personal student of His Holiness Dalai Lama, and has taken direct teachings with at least 20 Tibetan lamas over the years, many of whom he taught English. So it was an honor and a real treat to meet this [Read more →]

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