Georges Dreyfus
Scholar of Buddhism
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Georges B.J. Dreyfus, born 1950 in Switzerland, is an academic in the fields of Tibetology and Buddology, 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.