The Courage to Be Compassionate

9 months ago

For the past forty years, Thupten Jinpa has served as the principal English translator for His Holiness the Dalai Lama, traveling around the world to attend His Holiness’s public teachings and private meetings with leading thinkers in science, philosophy, and psychology. In working with His Holiness, Jinpa describes himself as a medium between classical Tibetan Buddhism and the contemporary world, and he sees his translation as operating on two levels: straightforward word-for-word translation and conceptual translation.

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