On this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken travels to Montreal to speak with Thupten Jinpa, scholar and former monk in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, and primary English translator to His Holiness the Dalai Lama since 1985. In this rich conversation, Jinpa describes his intellectual training at Shartse College of Ganden Monastic University in […]

Thupten Jinpa: Translating for His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Thupten Jinpa: Translating for His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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