Jinpa, Thupten

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Thupten Jinpa

Title Prefix	Geshe Lharampa

Dates

Birth:	1958

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Rab Jyung

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Rab Jyung

Contact information

Website:	http://www.tibetanclassics.org

About

Primary Language:	Tibetan
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)

Links

Wiki Pages

• Jinpa, Thupten on the DRL
• Jinpa, Thupten on the LIB
• Jinpa, Thupten on the BNW

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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.

Refers to something that is taught for a specific reason, rather than because it is entirely true.

Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana).

Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.

The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature.

The state of being empty of self, which references the lack of inherent existence in relative phenomena.

Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana.