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Thupten Jinpa - Cultivating Compassion

04.29.2020 - By Mind & Life InstitutePlay

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In this inaugural episode, Wendy speaks with Buddhist scholar, author, and longtime translator for the Dalai Lama, Thupten Jinpa. Their conversation covers many topics, including:

how he met and started working with the Dalai Lama, and insights from 35 years of translating for him;

the relationship of language and mind;

how to deal with self-consciousness;

the dialogue between Buddhism and science;

first- and third-person ways of investigating the mind that are central to the science of meditation;

sources of valid evidence and knowledge;

the mind as more than the brain;

the relevance of compassion for well-being and a program he developed to cultivate it;

the value of mental training in the time of COVID, and other topics.

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