Elio Guarisco

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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