Georges B.J. Dreyfus (born 1950 in Switzerland) is an academic in the fields of

Tibetology Tibetology () refers to the study of things related to Tibet, including its history, religion, language, culture, politics and the collection of Tibetan articles of historical, cultural and religious significance. The last may mean a collection of ...

and

Buddhology Buddhist studies, also known as Buddhology, is the academic study of Buddhism. The term ''Buddhology'' was coined in the early 20th century by the Unitarian minister Joseph Estlin Carpenter to mean the "study of Buddhahood, the nature of the Bud ...

, with a particular interest in Indian

Buddhist philosophy Buddhist philosophy refers to the philosophical investigations and systems of inquiry that developed among various schools of Buddhism in India following the parinirvana of The Buddha and later spread throughout Asia. The Buddhist path combin ...

. 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 Williams College is a Private college, private liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a col ...

, Massachusetts.

Selected bibliography

* 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.

References

External links

Profile at Williams College Department of Religion
Tibetologists 1950 births Living people Swiss philologists {{Switzerland-academic-bio-stub