Lessons for Living… and Dying

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Very few people have led the life that Thupten Jinpa Langri has experienced.

At 11 years of age, he entered a Buddhist monastery after his parents fled Tibet and became refugees in southern India.

Soon after he met the Dalai Lama who noticed the brilliance and curiosity of this young student. It was the start of a life-long relationship. He’s been the Dalai Lama’s interpreter for almost forty years and translator of many of his books.

Jinpa eventually left monastic life and has become a world renowned scholar, researcher, speaker and writer on Tibetan Buddhism and the vital role of empathy and compassion in our lives.

I recently had a chance to interview this remarkable man at the 2023 Roots of Empathy Symposium in Toronto.

Here’s my conversation with him on what it means to live a meaningful life… and death.

Info on Guest:

Thupten Jinpa Langri is a Tibetan Buddhist scholar, researcher and interpreter for the Dalai Lama. He is the Founder and President of The Compassion Institute, an adjunct professor at the School of Religious Studies at McGill University, and visiting research scholar at the Stanford Institute for Neuro-Innovation and Translational Neurosciences. He’s the author of several books incl. “A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to be Compassionate can Transform Our lives.”

For more info on his work:

https://www.mcgill.ca/religiousstudies/people/emeritus-and-affiliated-faculty/thupten-jinpa-0

Add’l Info:

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