Geshe Thupten Jinpa

Geshe Thupten Jinpa has been a principal English translator to the Dalai Lama since 1985. He has translated and edited more than ten books by the Dalai Lama including "The World of Tibetan Buddhism" (Wisdom, 1993), "The Good Heart: The Dalai Lama Explores the Heart of Christianity" (Rider, 1996), and the New York Times bestseller "Ethics for the New Millennium" (Riverhead, 1999). [http://www.tibetanclassics.org/tjinpa.html The Institute of Tibetan Classics] ]

Geshe Thupten Jinpa was born in Tibet in 1958. He received his early education and training as a monk at Zongkar Chöde Monastery in South India and later joined the Shartse College of Ganden monastic university, 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 B.A. Honors degree in Western Philosophy and a Ph.D. degree in Religious Studies, both from Cambridge University, UK. [http://www.snowlionpub.com/pages/jinpa.php Thupten Jinpa] ]

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.

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".

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