He is currently editing an oral discourse by the Dalai Lama, a personal acquaintance, on Tibetan Tantra. The versatile Mr. Hopkins is not only fluent in Tibetan but Anglo-Saxon as well, and thus his translation of an elegy, “The Wanderer,” “dated roughly at 750 A.D., give or take a century or two.” He received a magna cum laude B. A. degree from Harvard and a Ph. D. degree from the University of Wisconsin. He has published three books, including The Buddhism of Tibet and the Key to the Middle Way, and is currently working on three more.