Georges B.J. Dreyfus (born 1950 in Switzerland) 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: Dharmakërti's Philosophy and its Tibetan Interpretations. State University of New York Press, Albany.
Articles
- âÂÂSelf and Subjectivity: a Middle Way Approachâ in Self vs. No-Self (Oxford University Press, 2010)
- âÂÂCan a Madhyamika be a Skeptic?â in Moonshadows: Conventional Truth in Buddhist Philosophy (Oxford, 2010)
- âÂÂShould We Be Afraid? The Return of the Sacred and the Rise of Religious Nationalism.â (2010)
- âÂÂPhilosophical Issues, Asian Perspectives: Indian Theories of the Mindâ in Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness, 2007
- âÂÂEmotional Pathologies and their Remedies: An Abhidharmic View,â in The Dalai Lama at MIT, 2007
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