Thupten Jinpa Archives - Applied Buddhist Psychology

Article: Book Review: A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives

Applied Buddhist Psychology, Article, Buddhism, Compassion, Empowered Living, Thupten Jinpa

By Barry Lipscomb

Reading A Fearless Heart was a very powerful, transformative, and healing experience for me personally. This was heightened by reading the book the same week I began the Sacred Stream's Applied Buddhist Psychology 1: Entering the Stream class, and started practicing Shamata meditation. It seems my heart is breaking open and expanding in new directions, as if compassion and loving-kindness is the last frontier.

Article: Book Review: Tsongkhapa, a Buddha in the Land of Snows

Applied Buddhist Psychology, Article, Buddhism, Isa Gucciardi, Thupten Jinpa

By Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.

Tsongkhapa, a Buddha in the Land of Snows is Buddhist scholar Thupten Jinpa’s contribution to Shambhala Publications’ remarkable series, The Lives of the Masters, which seeks to memorialize the contributions of some of the most important thinkers in Buddhist philosophy. Tsongkhapa, who lived from 1357-1419, is considered one of the greatest Buddhist philosophers and teachers that ever lived.

Article: Jinpa Means Generosity

Applied Buddhist Psychology, Article, Thupten Jinpa

By Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.

The morning after Jinpa left, the Tibetan Buddhist monks of the Gaden Shartse Dohkang who had been staying with us for several months, were sitting around our breakfast table with us as they did each morning. But this morning, we were all a bit shell-shocked. As we sat together, we all felt that we were sitting still in the presence of Jinpa. We drank our tea, and I tried to eat the lovingly prepared, cold, very fried eggs. But none of us really had much of an appetite. We were all trying to digest our good fortune at having just spent forty-eight hours of completely unstructured time with Thupten Jinpa.

Article: Book Review: A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives

Applied Buddhist Psychology, Article, Thupten Jinpa

By Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.

Dr. Thupten Jinpa’s new book, A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to be Compassionate Can Transform our Lives, is a very important new book. For those of you who may think you do not know who Thupten Jinpa is, you probably have met him without realizing it. He has been His Holiness, the Dalai Lama’s principle English language interpreter and translator since 1987.

Article: The Future of Buddhism in the West

Applied Buddhist Psychology, Article, Inner Wisdom, Isa Gucciardi, Robert Thurman, Thupten Jinpa

By Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.

Arnold Toynbee, the noted British historian, remarked that the most important event for the West in the twentieth century was to be its encounter with Buddhism. We in the West are still in the early days of this encounter and there are still many facets of this encounter that have yet to be worked out or made evident. Yet, by examining the challenges that have arisen in this encounter, we may be able to discern the trajectory of the future of Buddhism in the West.