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Georges Dreyfus

b. 1950

Scholar of Buddhism and Tibetology

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About Georges Dreyfus

Born 1950. Georges Dreyfus is a Swiss linguist, buddhologist, tibetologist and religious studies scholar.

Georges B.J. Dreyfus (born 1950) is an academic in the fields of Tibetology and Buddhology, with a particular interest in Indian Buddhist philosophy. In 1985 he was the first Westerner to receive the Geshe Lharampa degree, the highest available within the Tibetan scholastic tradition.

He currently is Jackson professor of religion at Williams College, Massachusetts.

Selected bibliography Books Dreyfus, Georges B.J. (2003) The Sound of Two Hands Clapping: The Education of a Tibetan Buddhist Monk. University of California Press, Berkeley. Dreyfus, Georges B.J (1997) Recognizing Reality: Dharmakīrti's Philosophy and its Tibetan Interpretations. State University of New York Press, Albany.

Articles “Self and Subjectivity: a Middle Way Approach” in Self vs. No-Self (Oxford University Press, 2010) “Can a Madhyamika be a Skeptic?” in Moonshadows: Conventional Truth in Buddhist Philosophy (Oxford, 2010) “Should We Be Afraid? The Return of the Sacred and the Rise of Religious Nationalism.” (2010) “Philosophical Issues, Asian Perspectives: Indian Theories of the Mind” in Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness, 2007 “Emotional Pathologies and their Remedies: An Abhidharmic View,” in The Dalai Lama at MIT, 2007

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1950, Switzerland
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University of Virginia

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scholar of Buddhism and Tibetology

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Georges Dreyfus was born in 1950 in Switzerland.

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Georges Dreyfus is a linguist, buddhologist, tibetologist and religious studies scholar.

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Georges Dreyfus is Swiss.

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