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Dr. '''Jim Valby''' has been a student of [[Chogyal Namkhai Norbu]] since 1982. He earned M.A. and Ph.D degrees in Far Eastern Studies under Dr. [[Herbert V. Guenther]] of the University of Saskatchewan in 1973 & 1983 focussing on the texts of [[Shrisingha]] and [[Vimalamitra]]. Now he is preparing English translations of some early [[rgyud lung]]s of [[Dzogchen Semde, Longde and Upadesha]]. <br>
'''Georges Dreyfus''' was the first Westerner to obtain the title of Geshe Lharampa, the highest degree confered within the traditional Tibetan monastic system. He is presently Professor of Religion at Williams College. His most important works are: [[Recognizing Reality]]: Dharmakirti's Philosophy and its Tibetan interpreters, and [[The Sound of Two Hands Clapping]]: The Education of a Tibetan Buddhist Monk. His main areas of interest are: Buddhist philosophy, scholasticism and monasticism, protector deity cults, nationalism and identity.  


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After fifteen years of Tibetan scholastic training during the 1970s and early 1980s, Sangye Samdrup became the first Westerner to achieve the Ge-luk degree of Geshe (dge shes). In 2000, when I arrived at the Institute of Buddhist Dialecticsin Dharamsala, where Sangye Samdrup had studied, his reputation as an excellentdebater was still intact. He is known to readers of this journal by his Europeanname, Georges Dreyfus, and for his outstanding scholarship on Indian and Tibetan philosophy. In [[The Sound of Two Hands Clapping]] he brings his considerable un-derstanding of Western religious studies, philosophy, and cultural theory togetherwith his experience as a monk and his vast knowledge of Tibetan traditions to de-scribe and analyze the elite, scholastic education of the great Tibetan monasteries.


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===Published Works===
===Published Works===
*''The Great History of [[Garab Dorje]], [[Manjushrimitra]] and [[Vimalamitra]]'', from the Great History of the Innermost Essence of Dzogchen.
*''Two Dzogchen Texts''. The first text is the Semde lung “The Primordial State of the King of Space.” The second text is the Longde tantra “The King of the Infinite Primordial Dimension.” The Tibetan texts are included.


===Active Projects===
===Active Projects===
*Tantras of the [[sems sde]] of Dzogchen.
*The Marvelous Primordial State. Tibetan title: [[byang chub sems rmad du byung ba]]. Sanskrit title: bodhicittasopashika
*Sky-like Vast Space Tantra of the Great Perfection (of) the Primordial State. Tibetan title: [[byang chub kyi sems rdzogs pa chen po mkha' mnyam klong gi rgyal po]] zhes bya ba. Sanskrit title: bodhicitta mahasandhi khasame alankara tantra raja na ma.


===Unpublished Works (completed)===
===Unpublished Works (completed)===

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Georges Dreyfus was the first Westerner to obtain the title of Geshe Lharampa, the highest degree confered within the traditional Tibetan monastic system. He is presently Professor of Religion at Williams College. His most important works are: Recognizing Reality: Dharmakirti's Philosophy and its Tibetan interpreters, and The Sound of Two Hands Clapping: The Education of a Tibetan Buddhist Monk. His main areas of interest are: Buddhist philosophy, scholasticism and monasticism, protector deity cults, nationalism and identity.

After fifteen years of Tibetan scholastic training during the 1970s and early 1980s, Sangye Samdrup became the first Westerner to achieve the Ge-luk degree of Geshe (dge shes). In 2000, when I arrived at the Institute of Buddhist Dialecticsin Dharamsala, where Sangye Samdrup had studied, his reputation as an excellentdebater was still intact. He is known to readers of this journal by his Europeanname, Georges Dreyfus, and for his outstanding scholarship on Indian and Tibetan philosophy. In The Sound of Two Hands Clapping he brings his considerable un-derstanding of Western religious studies, philosophy, and cultural theory togetherwith his experience as a monk and his vast knowledge of Tibetan traditions to de-scribe and analyze the elite, scholastic education of the great Tibetan monasteries.

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