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|bio=Thupten Jinpa Langri (b. 1958) 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 Publications, 1993), ''A Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus'' (Wisdom Publications, 1996), and the New York Times bestseller ''Ethics for the New Millennium'' (Riverhead, 1999). | |bio=Thupten Jinpa Langri (b. 1958) 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 Publications, 1993), ''A Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus'' (Wisdom Publications, 1996), and the New York Times bestseller ''Ethics for the New Millennium'' (Riverhead, 1999). | ||
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Title Prefix | Geshe Lharampa |
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Birth: | 1958 |
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Tibetan calendar dates
Website: | http://www.tibetanclassics.org |
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Primary Language: | Tibetan |
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Translates from: | Tibetan |
Translates to: | English |
- Primary Affiliation (Workplace)
- Library of Tibetan Classics
- Secondary Affiliation
- Tsadra Foundation; Mind & Life Institute
- Religious Affiliation
- Dalai Lama, 14th;Ganden Monastic University
- Teachers
- HH the Dalai Lama, 14th
PhD University
- Cambridge University
Education
B.A., Ph.D. Cambridge University, England
Biographical Information
Thupten Jinpa Langri (b. 1958) 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 Publications, 1993), A Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus (Wisdom Publications, 1996), and the New York Times bestseller Ethics for the New Millennium (Riverhead, 1999).
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 near Mysore, Karnataka, South India, and later joined the Shartse College of Ganden monastic university, in Mundgod, Karnataka, 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.
(Source Accessed April 10, 2015)
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All beings have Buddha-nature | |
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Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་) | |
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Other Information
Geshe Thupten Jinpa
Thubten Jinpa Langri
Founder and creator of Institute of Tibetan Classics, Montreal
Library of Tibetan Classics Series.