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The Hopkins Multimedia Tibetan Research Archive Project is a unique digital archive donated to the Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies by Professor Jeffrey Hopkins of the University of Virginia. Professor Hopkins, a leading scholar of Tibetan Buddhism, was the English language interpreter for ten years for Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama (bstan 'dzin rgya mtsho, b.1935). He has published over thirty-five books on the topic of Tibetan Buddhism, using this archive of recordings as a primary research resource. The Hopkins Multimedia Tibetan Research Archive begins with the year 1971 and consists of over three thousand hours of authentic oral transmission on many scholarly and cultural aspects of Tibetan Buddhism, including many traditional Buddhist philosophical topics, Tibetan medicine, a little Tibetan history, and so forth. The archive includes four hundred hours of teachings by the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and thousands of hours of teachings by numerous lamas of the last generation of Buddhist scholars to be thoroughly trained in Tibet.

The archive is in two parts: Tibetan language only and Tibetan with English translation provided by Hopkins.

Currently only portions of the archive are offered to the public. More files will be offered soon.