Thupten Jinpa - Cultivating Compassion
· 1 h 05 min
Episode Thupten Jinpa - Cultivating Compassion
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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