Dr. Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D.,
the official translator of His Holiness the Dalai Lama 
is coming to San Jose to give a teaching on Tibeten Mnid Training.

Details:

Tibetan Mind Training

Santa Clara Convention Center, Room J
5001 Great America Pkwy
Santa Clara, CA  95054

Sunday - June 29, 2008 - 2 pm - 4 pm

Dr. Thupten Jinpa has been a principal English translator to His Holiness the Dalai Lama since 1985.  He was born in Tibet in 1958 and trained as a monk at Zongkar Chode Monastery in southern India. He later joined the monastic university at Ganden Shartse College where he received the highest academic degree of Geshe Lharam (equivalent to a doctorate in divinity) and taught Buddhist epistemology, metaphysics, Middle Way philosophy, and Buddhist psychology.  Dr. Jinpa also holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Western Philosophy and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies, both from Cambridge University, UK, where he also worked as a research fellow for three years.

Dr. Jinpa has accompanied His Holiness as his translator to the United States, Canada, and Europe.
He has translated and edited many books by the Dalai Lama, including the recent New York Time’s bestseller Ethics for the New Millennium.

From 1996 to 1999, Dr. Jinpa was the Margaret Smith Research Fellow in Eastern Religion at Girton College, Cambridge University, UK.  Dr. Jinpa is an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University, Montreal, and a visiting scholar at the Stanford Neuroscience Institute at Stanford University.  He is currently the president of the Institute of Tibetan Classics and heads its project of critical editing, translation, and publication of key classical Tibetan texts aimed at creating a definitive reference series entitled The Library of Tibetan Classics.

Dr. Jinpa serves on the advisory boards of various educational and cultural organizations in North America, Europe and India, and is also the book review editor for Contemporary Buddhism, a bi-annual, interdisciplinary journal exploring the interface between Buddhism and modern society.

Gyuto never charges for its events but a small donation would be appreciated to cover the costs of hosting this talk.  Seats are limited please visit our website: www.gyutocenter.org to RSVP.

Thank you.

For more information, please contact:

Gyuto Vajrayana Center - 1439 Old Piedmont Road, San Jose CA 95132
Tel: (408) 926-9430 Email: info@gyutocenter.org / www.gyutocenter.org