Thupten Jinpa Langri (born 1958)The Lessons of the Buddha
/ref> is a Tibetan Buddhist scholar, former monk and an academic of religious studies and both Eastern and Western philosophy. He has been the principal English translator to the

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since 1985. He has translated and edited more than ten books by the Dalai Lama including ''

The World of Tibetan Buddhism ''The World of Tibetan Buddhism'' is a 1995 book written by the Dalai Lama, translated and edited by Geshe Thupten Jinpa, in which he offers a clear and penetrating overview of Tibetan Buddhist practice from the Four Noble Truths_to_Highest_Yoga_Ta ...

'' (

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, 1993), ''A Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus'' (Wisdom Publications, 1996), and the ''

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'' bestseller '' Ethics for the New Millennium'' (Riverhead, 1999).The Institute of Tibetan Classics
/ref> Thupten Jinpa Langri was born in

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in 1958. He received his early education and training as a monk at Zongkar Choede Monastery in

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near

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, South

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, and later joined the Shartse College of Ganden monastic university, in

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, South

, 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

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degree in Religious Studies, both from

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, UK.Thupten Jinpa
/ref> From 1996 to 1999, he was the Margaret Smith Research Fellow in Eastern Religion at

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, 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

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, 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.The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education
/ref> 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''.

References

External links

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