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'' (

Wisdom Publications The Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) was founded in 1975 by Lamas Thubten Yeshe and Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, who began teaching Mahayana Buddhism to Western students in Nepal. The FPMT has grown to encompass over ...

, 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,

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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 , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

, 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

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.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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