Thupten Jinpa

Dalai Lama with Thupten Jinpa, 18 September 2006

Thupten Jinpa Langri (b. 1958) has been the principal English translator to the Dalai Lama since 1985. He has translated and edited many books by the Dalai Lama including The World of Tibetan Buddhism (Wisdom Publications, 1993), A Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus (Wisdom Publications, 1996), and others.

Thupten Jinpa Langri was born in Tibet in 1958. He received his early education and training as a monk at Zongkar Choede Monastery in Hunsur, South India and later joined the Shartse College of Ganden monastic university, in Mundgod, South India, where he received the Geshe Lharam degree. He taught Buddhist epistemology, metaphysics, Middle Way philosophy and Buddhist psychology at Ganden for five years. Jinpa also holds a B.A. Honors degree in Western Philosophy and a Ph.D. degree in Religious Studies, both from Cambridge University, UK.

From 1996 to 1999, he was the Margaret Smith Research Fellow in Eastern Religion at Girton College, Cambridge and he has now established the Institute of Tibetan Classics where he is both president and editor-in-chief of the Institute's translation series Classics in Tibet. He is also a member of the advisory board of the Mind and Life Institute, dedicated to fostering creative dialogue between the Buddhist tradition and Western science.

He is a Visiting Research Scholar at the Stanford Institute for Neuro-Innovation and Translational Neurosciences at Stanford University.

Geshe Thupten Jinpa has written many books and articles. His latest works are Tibetan Songs of Spiritual Experience (co-edited with Jas Elsner) and Self, Reality and Reason in Tibetan Thought: Tsongkhapa's Quest for the Middle View..

External links

• Radio interview In the Room with the Thupten Jinpa with Krista Tippet on her NPR radio show On Being

Videos

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Selected videos:

• Thupten Jinpa: " A Fearless Heart"

  Description: Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D., the highly acclaimed thought leader and longtime English translator of the Dalai Lama, explores how powerful compassion can be, not just for others, but for our own wellbeing. Acknowledging the importance (and popularity) of the Buddhist practice of mindfulness, A Fearless Heart teaches us to take the next step toward compassion—something so many of us fear. Worried that we may be taken advantage of, or that too much self-compassion will turn us into slackers, we too often resist a powerful instinct that correlates strongly with happiness, stress reduction, and a greater sense of purpose. Using cutting edge science and psychology sourced from both contemporary Western and classical Buddhist sources, and remarkable stories of transformations that have resulted from the practice of compassion, Jinpa shows us that, by training our compassion muscle, we can improve our health and relationships, achieve our goals, and ultimately change the world.