# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jeffrey-hopkins
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:20:14.396Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jeffrey-hopkins"
name: "Jeffrey Hopkins"
slug: "jeffrey-hopkins"
description: "Jeffrey Hopkins was an American Tibetologist. He was Emeritus professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia, where he taught for more than three decades beginning in 1973. He authored more than twenty-five books about Tibetan Buddhism, among them the highly influential Meditation on Emptiness, which appeared in 1983, offering a pioneering exposition of Prasangika-Madyamika thought in the Geluk tradition. From 1979 to 1989 he was the Dalai Lama's chief interpreter into English and he played a significant role in the development of the Free Tibet Movement. In 2006 he published his English translation of a major work by the Jonangpa lama, Dolpopa, on the Buddha Nature and Emptiness called Mountain Doctrine. Hopkins died on July 1, 2024, at the age of 83. He graduated from Harvard College (BA) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (PhD)."
tagline: "American university teacher (1940–2024)"
gender: "male"
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birthDate: "1940-09-30"
deathDate: "2024-07-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump