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.

Full show notes and resources (podcast.mindandlife.org/thupten-jinpa)